iPhones are a Scam

No problem! Thanks for the compliments and for being so open minded. I understand that sounds condescending at face value but most of my debate experience online has been, well, less thought out by other parties. I"m sure you"ve encountered similar issues. OK, I"ll try to steer away from talking about the iPhone"s connectivity to the rest of the Apple ecosystem. So for the release strategy for iPhones... I"ll begin by making a small correction, the iPhone 8/8 Plus were fitted with the A11 chip, the newest processor that was installed in the iPhone X. (Also, as a side note, I cannot see the removal of the headphone jack as unacceptable. We"re moving ever closer to a cable-free world and Apple simply decided to give the mobile world a little push in that regard. I still think Apple will be the first company to release a phone without a physical charging port once wireless charging is more readily used. Whether people like it, wireless is the future and we"re getting there quickly.) So let"s look at their release strategy since the iPhone 4 [2010]... [2011] iPhone 4s: Basic all round improvements - support for Siri (a big thing back then). [2012] iPhone 5: Another natural update, better processor, camera, screen, etc. Plus 4G network support. [2013] iPhone 5s: Basic update, Touch ID introduced. [2013] iPhone 5c: Budget phone born of demand & supply. [2014] iPhone 6/6 Plus: A bigger overhaul. Again, an update of all the important stuff with addition of Apple Pay support. These had a problem with bending. I remember watching videos of people bending that phone. It looked difficult. [2015] iPhone 6s/6s Plus: Another basic upgrade to the previous generation. [2016] iPhone SE: Demand & supply. People wanted a smaller screen phone. [2016] iPhone 7/7 Plus: Standard upgrades. [2017] iPhone 8/8 Plus: Essentially a new standard iPhone to go alongside the X. Addition of wireless charging and other features. [2017] iPhone X: The first major upgrade since the iPhone 6. Complete redesign - new flagship. If you look at the Samsung (I get that this isn"t an iPhone vs Galaxy debate, it"s just to compare Apple to a rival companies and understand the similarities) their releases are much the same. They"ve released less phones in the Galaxy range; all of their "Plus" equivalents went to the "Note". But the upgrades and features are similar: basic processor, camera, screen upgrades and including the current year"s latest update, wether that be water proofing, wireless charging, finger scanning, etc. These are basic release strategies, Apple are just a lot more "bling" with their advertising. Scam just doesn"t cut it for me. I get that it"s a system designed to push you towards the latest release - just like any other company - but I currently can"t see these tactics as a scam. I"ll drop a few arguments because you"re right, that"s not what you were asserting and it gets too far away from the primary discussion topic, but they would be interesting to discuss in another forum. I would like some examples of features that other phones currently have that far surpass the iPhone"s if you could. That"s the only thing I feel I"m not too comfortable in rebuking as I don"t have the facts in front of me. Although I have kept up to date with comparison videos in the past but they all seem to be, "These phones all have A, B & C, let"s see which one opens apps quickest." Thanks for the quick reply!