iphone 6 or 6 plus. is it worth buying the new version? i haven t had enough time to know if it s worth the upgrade yet. i will say you can get the phone in pink now. they call it rose gold and it s pink so that s fantastic. you can take live photos that add motion and audio before and after each shot and there s a new feature called 3d touch that adds very cool context options for quickly accessing parts of your phone, previewing messages and it s a terrific feature. okay, and what about the iphone payment plan? is this going to make it more affordable for folks? well, it depends on what you mean by affordable. if you mean how much you pay in the long run, no, you ll end up paying more for your phone but it means that since carriers are getting rid of carrier subsidies, toebl doesn t have them, sprint has gotten rid of them, verizon no longer has them.
it went bankrupt, slashing costs, killing brands. now it s repaid some of the bailout. it s a publicly traded company again, and it s turning a profit and passing a little on to the employees as well. randi? what s this about newer, cheaper smartphones today? yeah. this is actually coming out of wall street journal. apple is working on a new line of cheaper iphones. right now the current model sells for about 200 bucks, but this new line is expected to sell for half this and is supposed to weigh half of what the current iphone weighs as well. back to the price, with carrier subsidies, randi, could end up being free with your rate plan. what apple is really trying to do is kind of bring the iphone to the mass market. right now it s a really expensive phone and it s really popular but only makes up 3% of the broader cell phone markets so this is more about staying in the competition, remaining competitive and being an attractive cell phone to people who can actually afford it. rand
it really could be because traditional bookstores are really going away. look at the pattern here. e-mail overtook snail mail. mp3 players took over cds, and now ereaders are taking over traditional books. borders came late to the game and didn t come out with an ereader until three years after amazon came out with kindle, and a lot of people are shopping online for books and downloading books to their electronic devices. speaking of electronic devices. iphones, is there a cheaper line in the works? there is. apple says according to the wall street journal that it is coming out way cheaper and lighter design of the iphone. the current model sells for $200. the newer, cheaper model could sell for half that price, and with carrier subsidies, with a rate plan, it could come out free in the end.