Comment by gbear605

8 hours ago

Taking inflation into account, a $599 iPhone in 2026 would have been $380 in 2007. Given that the actual launch price in 2007 was $499, that's a pretty hefty drop.

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Dylan16807  3 hours ago

A technology doodad getting 25% cheaper in real terms over 15-20 years is about as far opposite as you can get from a hefty price drop.

  • gbear605  2 hours ago

    Sure, it hasn’t crashed like the prices of televisions, or like computers did in the 80s and 90s. But it’s still meaningfully cheaper and of course much more capable (the original iPhone didn’t even launch with an App Store!).

  • NoLinkToMe  1 hour ago

    Come on, the iPhone had:

      - no app store
  - no video recording at all
  - no copy/paste function
  - no selfie camera
  - no GPS

    Just to name a few. I won't even go into things like touch/faceID, wireless charging, iCloud, any form of water resistance etc.

    And then in terms of the specs on what it did have that got better, processor, memory, storage, screen quality, battery life, camera, it's all orders of magnitude better. There really is no comparison.

    I mean look at the price of a digital camera, music player etc, hell even external battery pack in 2007, with the same specs as the iPhone today, and you'll easily find support for using the words 'hefty price drop'.