Buying one through Apple online at the moment, but it’s roughly $1300 with taxes. So I have myself a little nervous at the cost. Thanks in advance for answering. 👍

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    3 days ago

    Lol, I think many people use unlocked phones just fine. This aint the 2000s where carriers can “punish” you anymore (lets hope those legal precedents don’t reverse).

    I bought my (android) phone from bestbuy and have switch between carriers and MVNOs, works fine.

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      2 days ago

      That’s why he said “old guy question”.

      I graduated in 99. I can take cell phones apart and put them back together all day but ANYTHING to do with the carriers I have negative interest in. I would rather eat paint chips while listening to harpies screeching. I just can’t be made to care.

      There’s always just some people, with everything, who just don’t fucking care and nothing will ever change that. With every subject.

      With homeboy here, I would t spend 1300 on a phone. Ever. I’d go out, today at this point in history, and buy a used pixel 7 (or 8 if priced right), root it and put GrapheneOS on it, but that’s just me.

      The only way to have money is to not spend it and very few things are worth feeling the despair that can come with being broke. At this point in my life, there’s nothing that I can think of that’s worth being broke over. Not one single thing out there.