Apple iPhone X to be cancelled due to poor sales

I for one feel a thousand dollar cell phone is 100% bonkers, but in this (mostly) free world I really don't care what other people do with their money for the most part and especially if it doesn't impact me. Being a person who works in a "tech" field, having a smart phone is still only the slightest convenience for me. I can use the chat applications that my company uses, so that if I'm away from my home office desk, I can still be contacted fairly easy. A simple text message works the same way, and as stated above... a $20 walmart phone can do that. I just got my father a Casio Gzone Ravine 2 from eBay for $43. He loves it, it's rugged, very loud speaker, great call quality / reception, the battery easily lasts up to two weeks.......... its great. Only thing is that it isn't a smart phone. Oh well, $43 vs $1000? I'll let my laptop or desktop be smart and use the phone to call and text if it came to that.

I'm currently using a samsung galaxy S6 that I got for $300 in Feb of 16 (so we are coming up on two years). The battery life is crappy, but I work from home, have a wireless charger, wall chargers, and have car chargers (which are all of the "fast" variety save maybe the wireless one). Big deal. It's running the latest android, and does everything I need it to do.... even the "smart" stuff.

Again, I don't care what people do with their money. Personally, I'll be upgrading to a galaxy S8 when the S9 comes out. After selling off my S6 for whatever I can get out of it.... I should probably be back in the $300 range for the new phone. In two years I'll look to do the same again. I would just rather spend my money on other things, considering I don't feel I'm missing out on anything by using the S6 vs iPhone X.
 
Krynn72 said:
I can't help but think your opinion is skewed by your personal life. By your own admission (in some older thread I can't find) you don't really go out much, so its easier for your to not lose it or risk it getting stolen. Its easier for you to not have sensitive pictures or videos on your phone if all you photograph is work related or something (making assumptions here I know). People use their phones for a lot of potentially embarrassing but normal things. Taking photos to show your doctor for example. Having pictures of your girlfriend or wife, even not lewd or anything in the hands of some random dude would make you feel uncomfortable just to know he can copy those pictures and keep them forever. There's plenty of very normal reasons to lock your phone.

And some people, for example, go to the gym and have to change/shower in a publicly accessible place. Or they play sports and have to leave their phone somewhere easy to steal from. Some people have to take cabs/ubers/buses to get places (forgotten phones are common in these). Maybe you think it takes a stupid person to forget a phone in a car, but if so it just shows you either don't have much experience in social situations, or just aren't really thinking about it fully. People get excited, or distraught, or otherwise distracted as part of a social life and it sometimes leads to putting something down and forgetting to pick it up. Thats just normal, average life.

Plus, ever heard of this thing called children? Holy jebus kids cause mayhem. But then I maybe you think anybody who has kids doesn't have a brain either, since it leads to so many problems? Problems that could have easily been avoided by using your brain and not having kids?

I agree with a lot of things you say on this forum, but this is not one :)
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It depends on your priorities. The only thing I can think of that would make me forget my phone somewhere is if a bomb went off or I had to flee for some other reason. Or maybe if I got a call that a family member was dying in the hospital and I needed to get there ASAP. But then, if I had gotten such a call, I would automatically put the phone back in my pocket after hanging up.

I've been carrying around laptops, Palm Pilot's, Pocket PC's, cell phones, etc. for decades. Maybe if I had just got my first phone or something things would be different. But I really can't imagine any "normal" situation that would cause me to lose my phone.

Never in my life have I lost my wallet, phone, or ANYTHING. I just can't imagine anyone else being so clumsy and forgetful when all they have to do is pay attention and use their brain.

If I went to the gym and had to leave my phone in an insecure place, I WOULDN'T BRING IT. If you can't take responsibility for your possessions, you don't deserve to have them.

I've used Uber/Lyft many, many times and I couldn't imagine forgetting my phone in someone else's car.

Maybe women have it worse than men do since men usually have pockets, but I imagine having a huge freaking purse would make me LESS likely to lose something, not more.
 
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