iPhone 14 To Be Announced Sept 7

@Northwest Many of the parts are not that special, some being about the same as parts in most other products. (Some are literally the same as Samsung makes many of their parts.)
Depending on the phone it can cost about $400+ to manufacture the product, but they sell for over a thousand.

Looks are nice, but for the general user I support function over form. A windows machine for the same price can provide greater speed and storage.

Not sure what you are paying for yearly there unless it's software subscriptions. There are programs that come with macos that don't require subscriptions but for most people those same things are available for windows and there are free alternatives. As for open source development mac has tools right out of the box, but there are tools available for windows that allow the same work. But that comes down to which program you prefer to use.

But this is getting into a different discussion about larger devices and is a departure from the topic of phones.

@DylanGuy My point is that they have differentiators, whether or not you may think they are valuable, hence the apples and oranges comparison.

You cannot, for instance, run Power BI on the Mac. You need to run it inside a VM from Parallels (everything else doe work), and that's $120 per year, in addition to having to shell our $100 or so for a Windows license. As to software development, no, Windows is not there yet, which is why I have a Windows machine sitting idle, that I only use for PowerBI.

@Northwest I'm really not sure what we are talking about anymore. we are pretty much telling eachother we agree.

@LeopoldBloom Boom.... I would show that thing in public cool places....

@Northwest I'm not getting rid of it, it was just nice to have the best phone they made for a while. It's still a great phone and I plan to keep it long after I finish paying for it.