What subsidy?! This is the full price for an unlocked iPhone.

Not only that, it is also structurally stronger, you don't need connectors, etc etc. But hey, haters gotta hate.

No, that would be Aluminium. Only Americans are lazy and call it Aluminum.

I don't remember anyone having a unibody, as in the shell was milled from one slab of Al. There were Al bodies, of course, but those were all assembled.

Al. Not AI. You need to have a better font :P

And some how, this dual core, and half clocked cpu, out performs nearly every quad core and octo core Android phone on the market. Have you even asked yourself why this is? And what would happen if Apple did decide to go double clock speed and quad core...?

As for resolution, show me a sRGB capable screen on Android please.

A 5 cent part in a car ends up costing $5, but you're OK with it being a 100x the part price.

$25 in parts ending up costing $100, and you bitch about a 4X increase.

Good thing you're not in business, or you'd rapidly go out of business.

Oh, you are one of those guys who would hold a laptop up to his ear to make phone calls, because Skype is free, right?

Did you also tell him about the EULA that you signed when you use FLICKR?

NO!!!! HE MUST HAVE TEH APPLE HATEZ!!!!!
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damned cap filter
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why can't I yell if I want to, dammit?

7GB for an upgrade? I think you've mistaken this for your Samsung Galaxy touchwiz crap... :)

I think you got your logic backwards. Apple's pricing for iPhones has always been in $100 increments from base.

The fact that they removed the 32GB and made the next increment 64GB represents an increase in value to the end user.

iPhone 5S, 16GB - $649
iPhone 5S, 32GB - $749
iPhone 5S, 64GB - $849

Now compare iPhone 6:
iPhone 6, 16GB - $649
iPhone 6, 64GB - $749
iPhone 6, 128GB - $849

What 32GB users grumbling?!?!

You are one of those conspiracy theorists, aren't you? Major competitors wouldn't be driven into bankruptcy by this, and tiny competitors wouldn't even be on their radar.

It's not just the infrastructure but how Apple pulls people along. Before the MacBook unibodies came out, you couldn't get Al milling machines in quantity at any price. Once Apple made it cool, now everyone and their brother have an Al milling machine.

Funny how time changes things. Or time changes people into Stockholm Syndrome victims? I remember when XP first came out and it was ridiculed for being Windows the Teletubbies edition, and how people laugh at HotFix #1 being released on the release date of XP, and how Microsoft had previously declared that there's no more buffer overflows in Windows, and of course, HotFix #1 was for a buffer overflow....