Good lord, this is the dumbest dumb-shit I've read in a while. $!000+ for a phone is hard to justify because it's a shit-ton of money. And for a device that is often forced into obsolescence by the manufacturer within a couple of years. I can get about 5 years out of a similarly priced laptop. On top of which, a LOT of us remember when a good smart phone cost around $300, and a "high end" smart phone was about $500. The value of the American dollar hasn't plunged THAT fast, nor have the phone's improved anywhere near as dramatically as the price jump would suggest.