This question came to me while answering This question about the latest Iphone. The iPhone price is ranging from $999 to $1800 in certain countries. The device is made up of stainless steel and glass, and is dust and waterproof. There isn’t much to it that would convince me to pay more than $400—$500 dollars for it, especially when I had a $70 phone last me 6 years.

Do you think people are paying this much because they feel the technology will actually benefit them, or are they just doing it because most others are too, and they want to fit in?

I feel it’s a bit of a mix, but the majority are doing it to look cool. I once read that apple purposefully made it so that the phones they made lasted a short time. To force people to buy phones every year or so. This company I feel is brainwashing people to buy these phones by over-advertising what they can do, and trying to make it so that people with Iphones think they are more entitled and are better.

I just can’t fathom why anyone in their right mind would pay soo much money for a cell phone.