If Macs are built to become "obsolete in 1-2 years," why is my late 2007 27" iMac still going strong after seven years, running OS X.10 Yosemite. . . without a problem? I was just offered $575 by a local computer RE-SELLER for that iMac. . . because he can resell every one he gets his hands on. We just sold our office's 8 year old Mac Pro for $900. . . and replaced it with a five year old model which we paid $1250 (I found a real bargain from a guy who was moving and downsizing and had only a short time to move it) because we needed one we could expand the RAM further. Can you say the same thing about ANY Windows PC that is SEVEN YEARS OLD?I know you cannot.
The simple fact is, adorno, is that we DON'T pay a high price for something we can get a much lower prices. We are NOT stupid. The factual situation is that EVERY SINGLE analysis of Total Cost of Ownership has shown that it is FAR LESS EXPENSIVE in the long run to buy an Apple Macintosh than it is to buy one of those cheap Windows computers. . . and a good portion of that lower cost is the recovery made when the computer is resold on upgrade.
My original iPhone, purchased on the day the iPhones were released on June 29, 2007, was handed down through family members and finally retired as a phone last march but continues in use as an iPod touch being used by my three year old granddaughter, 7 1/2 years AFTER it was put in service. . . all on the original battery which still has approximately 80% discharge time left after charging. . . and in the meantime I have not paid ONE RED CENT to upgrade to the latest and greater iPhones as they came out because I can SELL each previous model for MORE than the cost to upgrade. . . something you cannot do with any other smartphone make two years after they come out.
As an example, a fellow I know went with me when I upgraded to the iPhone 5 three years ago. . . to upgrade his latest and greatest Samsung flagship phone he had purchased for FULL UNLOCKED RETAIL of $649, not three months before. . . which he had grown to hate. I was offered a trade in of $275 for my two year old iPhone 4S which covered the entire upgrade and activation costs plus some for my upgrade. . . but his three month old, top of the line Samsung—which was still being sold for that high price—was worth only $64.95 in trade in! When asked why, the answer was that "No one wants them!" He went ahead and paid full bore for an iPhone 5 and switched his phone service to it.
And, most of us have BEEN users of the Windows junk. . . and you could not pay us to go back to that hell. Many of the iPhone users have been Android users and the same situation is true. They simply do not WANT to spend their time tweaking their phones to get them to work and downloading apps to find the best stuff they simply get already with the iPhone.
Samsung is losing money because their phone division is dragging down ALL of their company. . .
Not to argue, but he could have sold it for a lot more on ebay. I have a Galaxy S2 for several years and am quite happy with it. Just switched to Consumer Cellular and am happy with that service as well.