When people complain about the price you should look at the value you derive versus the ownership price.
Cost £1000 (that includes “being an idiot insurance” for 24 months). Get £400 back after two years. So total spend is £600. That works out at £25 a month over 2 years. Which isn’t a lot of money really considering the shite we all buy off eBay on a regular basis for more
. Realistically the average salary in the UK percentage of that is about 1.2%. Most people spend more on TV subs and alcohol.
For that you get a pocket supercomputer, decent camera, navigation device, music player, multi mode communication device, email client, eBay hawking device, calendar, alarm clock, contact manager and payment device. The phone bit isn’t that important these days.
Total bargain.
The only bad bit is the pocket Stasi.
. But quite frankly Apple are still the least bad at that sort of stuff.
I wouldn’t buy a bottom end handset myself. I have been there. There is only pain.
Edit: wrote this post on mine while taking a shit between meetings. See look at that value!