[BiteCode_dev]

That's a lot of money to most people in the world. To my mother it would be 2 months of food.

Even more if taking in consideration planned obsolescence.

[VLM]

To me with my $1700/month health "care" plan its a drop in the bucket.

You have to compare apples to apples. This is the kind of industry where a visit to the ER for a broken arm can and should cost $50K, supposedly.

[paulcarroty]

Tons $100+ iphones on ebay. Apple devices are everywhere now, obviously it's not luxury class.