How much can you save by living 10 for years without an iPhone

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10 years ago in the United States began selling the first model iPhone, and the company presented a new flagship iPhone X with a screen on the entire surface of the phone and face recognition technology. It will go on sale this fall, the 64 GB model will cost $ 999, and the 256 GB model will cost a whopping $ 1149.

As the magazine's columnist writes Moneythe cost iPhone X more than he and his wife pay for servicing the phone for the year. Over the past 10 years, we have been using base line phones with low-cost prepaid plans from operators such as Virgin Mobile, Cricket and GoPhone from AT&T. Even when we updated our phones, we never spent more than $ 1 000 on servicing phones one year before iPhone.

Magazine Browser Money decided to find out how much money he managed to save over 10 years due to the fact that he did not buy iPhone. His research showed that savings were about $ 20 000-30 000.

The observer recalls that at the end of the "zero" annual bill for the use of a cell phone AT&T GoPhone in his family was $ 100. According to him, in 2011, only 35% of adult Americans had a smartphone, and about 20% there was no mobile phone. Today, 77% has a smartphone and only 5% of Americans do without telephones.

As the journalist writes, today his wife uses the phone on the operating system Android which cost less than $ 100. The journalist himself bought a used iPhone a couple of years ago for $ 150. However, the total bill for servicing phones with a package from Wireless Cricket is about $ 70 per month including all taxes and fees. And it is much less than the cost of use. iPhone.

To calculate the cost of the company's flagship Apple the journalist took the 4 phone iPhone 3GS released in 2009 year, iPhone 5 in 2012 year and iPhone 6 и 6 Plus in the 2015 year and compared how much the most popular wireless plans cost at that time.

For example, in addition to paying $ 599 for the original iPhone 8 GB in 2007, users were paying between $ 60 and $ 120 per month (excluding taxes and fees) for a plan from AT&T (the only service provider at the time).

Then, over the course of several years, the cost of tariff plans grew and eventually began to exceed about $ 140. If you bought new every year iPhone and chose a high level plan, they spent about $ 2000 annually or $ 20 000 per 10 years each year. Or if the family has two iPhone — $40 for 000 years.

According to browser estimates, he and his wife have spent a total of about $ 10 5 for servicing phones over the past 000 years.

Of course, most people did not buy new ones. iPhone after the presentations. Many probably sell their old phones or choose cheap tariff plans. Thus, most likely, the average user iPhone spends more than $ 1 500 per year, periodically changing the phone model and data plan. For couples, the price for the total tariff plan will be slightly lower, so the total annual cost will be about $ 2 500. Thus, over the 10 years, a family of two people has spent on servicing two flagships Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), around $ 25 000. The author notes that the calculations did not take into account inflation. Adjusted for inflation, the amount of service iPhone will be higher.

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