View: iPhone 15-buyers, will you be my guinea pigs?
So, what is the trend I am all set to set according to My Lucky Birthday Book? Being not first in line, but last, when it comes to buying technological products and services.
Take the iPhone 15. Experts expect a jump in sales for the latest line this year from last year's iPhone 14 range, especially with models now being assembled/made (choose your verb depending on whether you're a Raghuram Rajaane jaan or not) in India.
Meanwhile, I am yet to possess an iPhone. I don't mean an iPhone 15, but any iPhone since the iPhone Touch was released on June 29, 2007.
Smart smartphonewalas — non-Parsis among you as well — you may well ask: So, how are you a trendsetter, bruv?
Which makes me come to the follow-up point regarding the latest iPhone.
Some buyers of the ₹79,900-plus device — especially the top-end Pro and Pro Max models — have been complaining about overheating. According to master Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo — he's South Korean-American, not Chinese, just saying — the problem could stem from corners cut in the device's 'thermal system design to make it lightweight'.
Others have the 'problem' down to too-early-feedback of too-early-use when the phones tend to heat up before 'cooling down'. No one, not even the Nazi dentist played by Laurence Olivier, in Marathon Man likes ₹80k teething problems.
Whatever the reason for consumer concern, by not lining up at Apple Saket as if the iPhone 15 is the new Harry Potter, I avoid any tension of buying a faulty, very expensive device.
Instead, I let the iPhone-buying populace be my personal feedback-cum-test drive team. The rich not only subsidise future technology by paying good money to make these products cheaper at a later date, but their 'Keep Up With the Joneses'
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