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jsheard 3 hours ago

> billionares use the same iPhones as you do!

Not if they have the brain disease which makes this kind of thing appealing:

https://caviar.global/catalog/custom-iphone/iphone-17/?sort=...

Yes that flagship model incorporates an actual Rolex Daytona in solid gold.

necovek 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is still exactly the same iPhone tech-wise, just with a custom "case".

I wouldn't go as far to call it "brain disease" though: in a sense, it is OK for someone well off to spend on expensive products (made by less rich), so things would equalize at least a bit.

Just like we in IT might happily pay 3% of our salary on slightly better shoes, and someone else would claim we have a "brain disease" because you can get perfectly good shoes for 5x less money.

relaxing 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That iphone is not 5x more.

Furthermore, who in IT is paying 3% on shoes? Even if you’re the hypebeast buying $1200 Balenciagas, I don’t see how the math works out.

necovek 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That iPhone is 15x more (I don't know the exact price, sorry)? Same order of magnitude.

3% of your monthly salary for $200-$500 shoes (I see plenty amateur runners getting carbon sole shoes in this price range, for instance), when you could get a pair for less than $50.

wffurr 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's got the exact same processing hardware in it though, which was the OP's point. Not that they can't have a fancier case.

A_D_E_P_T 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For me, it's London.

> https://caviar.global/catalog/custom-iphone/iphone-17/london...

phpnode 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Both of these are great, true expressions of a total void of taste

stronglikedan 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I guess billionaires don't charge wirelessly. They just grab their backup custom iphone when the first one dies.

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necovek 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They've got someone carrying their battery packs with an extendable cable.

Or maybe Big Ben hides the charging coils too.