Since it's so beautifully factory sealed, how does the lucky winner know there's really an iPhone in there? I can see the faces of forgers lighting up now. All we have to do is perfect beautiful factory sealing and we're in!
I guess somebody needed a goddamn charger THAT badly...
(It honestly pisses me off that they stopped including the charging block in the box. Like, I get that THEY save money, but then people have to go out and drop an extra $20-30 on a block on top of the unchanged--or even increased--price of the phone itself.)
Whoever actually "won" this is an idiot. There, I said it.
Yes, having a factory-sealed piece of history is...nice, I guess? But that's a level of snobbery I've never encountered in my life.
My two brothers have been iPhone fanboys since, like, the iPhone 3GS (which was, what, 2009?). I swore up and down for YEARS that iPhones were just overpriced trinkets and Androids were just better. And then after mom died in 2019, with part of my inheritance, I purchased an iPhone XR. Was it great? Well, yeah. It was actually pretty great--but it taught me that both Androids and iPhones (and, weirdly, WIndows Phones) are all great pieces of tech in their own ways. Some have better cameras than others, some bigger batteries or snappier performance or whatever.
Mercifully, even someone as stubborn as my oldest brother can even admit that his iPhone sometimes falls short compared to some mid-range and top-tier Androids.
Congratulations to whomever openly and honestly stole $40,000 from a rich idiot. Nobody lied, no poor people were exploited, and I have been briefly amused, for free.
True, taxing the rich far more would result in a more equitable benefit all around, but I still approve of this early attempt at economic justice.
Thanks, Robyn. This was excellent. Now, if you need more evidence that many, many rich people need taxation for their own good, read the Mansion section of the WSJ every week. The latest excess? Building an enormous house but deciding that the house is not big enough so you build a basement three times the size of the above-ground house. With swimming pools, saunas, guest bedrooms, and places to practice your putt, and so on and so on.
I fucking despise Apple, and I speak from experience. None of the products I own from that greedy corporation comes anywhere close to the hype Apple spews out about them. None of it "just works" anymore. None of it.
Maybe the asshole who bought the 2007 iPhone did so in tribute to the Chinese children who killed themselves out of misery at the Apple factory where it was assembled.
Apple also designs their phones to be as slippery and delicate as possible, necessitating the added expense of a $50 piece of plastic to cover their "timeless design" and protect it from damage. My grandmother did that with her couch.
I say this every time Bezos or one of the other billionaires shoots a rocket into space for shits and giggles. There are other times, but that is the most obvious area in which they have too much money. No individual should have enough wealth to start their own space program to launch their buddies into orbit, and we really need to be taxing these people more.
Classic car guys can put 50,000 to 100,000 bucks in their cars, but they haul them to town every summer in a trailer, take them out, and run down the freeway to the state fairgrounds for the classic car show.
Since it's so beautifully factory sealed, how does the lucky winner know there's really an iPhone in there? I can see the faces of forgers lighting up now. All we have to do is perfect beautiful factory sealing and we're in!
I guess somebody needed a goddamn charger THAT badly...
(It honestly pisses me off that they stopped including the charging block in the box. Like, I get that THEY save money, but then people have to go out and drop an extra $20-30 on a block on top of the unchanged--or even increased--price of the phone itself.)
Well, that is annoying. So is changing the dimensions of the phone so that older cases aren’t compatible, but then most companies do that.
Whoever actually "won" this is an idiot. There, I said it.
Yes, having a factory-sealed piece of history is...nice, I guess? But that's a level of snobbery I've never encountered in my life.
My two brothers have been iPhone fanboys since, like, the iPhone 3GS (which was, what, 2009?). I swore up and down for YEARS that iPhones were just overpriced trinkets and Androids were just better. And then after mom died in 2019, with part of my inheritance, I purchased an iPhone XR. Was it great? Well, yeah. It was actually pretty great--but it taught me that both Androids and iPhones (and, weirdly, WIndows Phones) are all great pieces of tech in their own ways. Some have better cameras than others, some bigger batteries or snappier performance or whatever.
Mercifully, even someone as stubborn as my oldest brother can even admit that his iPhone sometimes falls short compared to some mid-range and top-tier Androids.
Carp! I've been recycling all the obsolete electronics to Free Geek. I didn't know they would be collector's items.
Congratulations to whomever openly and honestly stole $40,000 from a rich idiot. Nobody lied, no poor people were exploited, and I have been briefly amused, for free.
True, taxing the rich far more would result in a more equitable benefit all around, but I still approve of this early attempt at economic justice.
Thanks, Robyn. This was excellent. Now, if you need more evidence that many, many rich people need taxation for their own good, read the Mansion section of the WSJ every week. The latest excess? Building an enormous house but deciding that the house is not big enough so you build a basement three times the size of the above-ground house. With swimming pools, saunas, guest bedrooms, and places to practice your putt, and so on and so on.
I fucking despise Apple, and I speak from experience. None of the products I own from that greedy corporation comes anywhere close to the hype Apple spews out about them. None of it "just works" anymore. None of it.
Maybe the asshole who bought the 2007 iPhone did so in tribute to the Chinese children who killed themselves out of misery at the Apple factory where it was assembled.
Apple also designs their phones to be as slippery and delicate as possible, necessitating the added expense of a $50 piece of plastic to cover their "timeless design" and protect it from damage. My grandmother did that with her couch.
Tim Apple is worse – all of the greed of Jobs times ten, and none of the attention to detail.
Just don't get sucked any further into Apple's "walled garden." It's a trap.
I say this every time Bezos or one of the other billionaires shoots a rocket into space for shits and giggles. There are other times, but that is the most obvious area in which they have too much money. No individual should have enough wealth to start their own space program to launch their buddies into orbit, and we really need to be taxing these people more.
I never got Apple. The computers cost twice as much as PC's, had half the power and features, and still had to run Microsoft products.
Classic car guys can put 50,000 to 100,000 bucks in their cars, but they haul them to town every summer in a trailer, take them out, and run down the freeway to the state fairgrounds for the classic car show.
Easy call. One gets you a box of nothing while the other gets you forty thousand bucks.
i've never understood the NFT thing - pay lots of money for nothing? FFS. Also android tragic here, you couldn't pay me $40,000 to use an iPohne