September 14 - SPENDING TEMPTATIONS: You NEED the new iPhone 7!

“Vanity[of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 3 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?,,,,the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 9 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us” Ecclesiastes 1.

“Pre-order the iphone 7 today to have it delivered at your door for free, or buy online to pick up at an Apple Store near you!”

That was the message in my email inbox following the release of the Apple’s iPhone 7. I had to check out the features, they're cool and undeniably attractive but here is what I thought:

*Dual 12MP cameras on iPhone 7 Plus – Really, my 8MP camera takes great pics, thanks a lot!

*Wide colour gamut – I don’t even know what that means!

*A10 processor, up to 2x faster than iPhone 6 – I am not in a hurry anyway; Neither have I tried the iPhone 6.

*Longest battery life ever in an iphone – Of course, you would expect a new release to have improved battery performance; I have a charger at home and at work; I can buy an Anker 20,000mha Portable charger for only £20 or so and recharge for weeks! Turning off wifi and other apps will also make my battery last longer.

*New stereo speaker system – I can always play my music through a variety of other home gadgets and systems

*Splash and water resistance – would be nice to have but I do not shower with my phone and will do my best to guard against the risk of water damage!

MORAL: With more than £6,000 spent on marketing for every person in the UK, for instance, it means there a numerous SPENDING TEMPTATION for you to part with your money, even when you do not need to will be huge!

Buy things what you really NEED, can AFFORD and will actually USE.
Remember, they say:
“A fool and his money are soon parted”

If you have a Smartphone in your pocket, any Smartphone, do you really need an upgrade? Considering that your Smartphone is much more powerful than the computer that put man on the moon!

ComputerWeekly.com has this to say:
"It’s absolutely amazing that the computers used to guide the Apollo 11 mission to the moon were no more powerful than a pocket calculator or a mobile phone."

The so-called Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) used a real time operating system, which enabled astronauts to enter simple commands by typing in pairs of nouns and verbs, to control the spacecraft. It was more basic than the electronics in modern toasters that have computer controlled stop/start/defrost buttons. It had approximately 64Kbyte of memory and operated at 0.043MHz!

Do you still need to upgrade to iPhone 7? Don't tell me you have already pre-ordered it! Well, who am I to say what you should or should not do!

Apple has now adopted the car lease model for iPhones; you pay monthly forever for the pleasure of a new iPhone every year. Catch: you never really own the iPhone (unless you pay another large sum) and you never stop the monthly repayments.

What a Smart idea by Apple: guaranteed monthly income by playing to the VANITY of gullible consumers.

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