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it's new iphone season again everyone but

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is it a good time to upgrade and here's the thing i'm not even asking whether

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you think that the newest iphone is worth switching to i'm talking

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specifically about this time of year is

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it a good time to upgrade think about it for a second new iphones

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get released at the same time every year which means that there is a certain

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seasonality to the pricing of the latest

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the last gen and even second-hand

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iphones and the crazy thing is this topic goes

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deeper than that because even if you hate iphones you're going to want to

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stay tuned because as it turns out computer processors are affected in a

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similar manner and apple's september event can also affect

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the pricing of certain components for things like gaming pcs

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a new iphone has been announced on the second week of september every year

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since the iphone 5 launch in 2012 with availability about 10 days later give or

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take so for years you could count on the latest iphone costing 6.49 unsubsidized

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with the plus size model selling for a hundred dollars more

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that is until apple snuck an extra 50

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onto the price tag of the iphone 8 and 8 plus and then quite literally turned it

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up to 11 the following year what hasn't changed is the discount on last gen

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phones every time a new iphone launches the devices from the previous year are

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dropped one hundred dollars this is notable because historically

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it's been the only time that apple has directly adjusted the iphone's

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unsubsidized price even their black friday sales are just

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free apple gift cards offered alongside regularly priced devices

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so an iphone will typically get discounted twice before it gets

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discontinued with the exception of the iphone 5 and the 10 which were both

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discontinued after just one year when the subsequent generation's budget

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offering made them redundant just because a model is discontinued

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however doesn't mean that it is not supported

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over time apple has actually increased the number of years of support that they

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offer to new iphones but there's something to watch out for here when you

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hear that an iphone gets five years of updates take that android loser that

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means five years from the phone's launch not five years after you walk to a store

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and buy it so if you think about it then a last gen

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iphone isn't discounted much if at all

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when you factor in that apple is going to kill its software updates that much

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sooner reducing its expected lifespan so our recommendation then is if you're

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planning to buy an iphone off contract buy it within the september launch

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period like do it right away the reason is that your purchase price

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of the phone isn't going to go down over the course of the rest of the year

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anyway but the resale value of your current phone could dropping 10 to 15

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per month after the new generation's launch so like if you're gonna spend the

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money you might as well get max enjoyment out of it by the way guys yes

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i will be reviewing the new iphones subscribe now so that you don't miss it

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now to change gears a little bit i mentioned before that even if you have

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no intention of ever buying an iphone it's still a good idea to be mindful of

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their launch window when you're upgrading your other electronics

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let's talk about how the demand for iphones can actually impact the price of

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the commodity chips that you'd find on your next ssd or maybe even system

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memory upgrade apple is the third largest manufacturer of smartphones

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globally behind samsung and huawei but

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unlike samsung who launches their galaxy s and note phones five months apart with

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other models sprinkled in between apple's new iphone lineup usually all

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launches at the same time or very close to it this puts a huge demand on

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manufacturers of integrated circuits like dram and nand flash that are found

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not just in phones but in tablets servers and yes of course your gaming pc

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so smartphones use up 35 of the world's

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nand flash memory that's more than any other segment so phone production during

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the summer to stock up for a big launch can actually eat up a lot of the global

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supply resulting in more expensive ssds during the holiday season a problem that

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ends up getting amplified whenever apple increases the storage capacity of their

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base model phones something that at the time of filming is rumored to happen

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this year including even on their budget model so that phone

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the 11r 10r2 ys i don't know whatever it ends up

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being called could potentially impact ram prices too the iphone 10r has been

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the best selling iphone since it launched accounting for nearly half of

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all iphone sales in the third quarter of this year and its successor is predicted

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to feature 33 percent more ram that's 4 gigs up from just 3 on the 10r

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however when it comes to ram there are many other factors that affect the

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supply everything from transitions to new process nodes and waiting for fabs

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to fire up to international trade spats to

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fires ripping through factories quite literally so imho it's not likely to be

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the new iphones that end up raising dram prices and that seems especially

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unlikely given that smartphone manufacturers have been missing their

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sales forecasts for the latest and greatest smartphones due to falling

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sales in recent years this has caused oversupply and the current climate of

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very very low memory prices there's also the fact that there are

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some single devices already being shipped in volume that pack more ram

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than apple's entire flagship lineup combined so yeah there's that too

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another industry that launches products like clockwork

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pun definitely intended is desktop computer processors

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on the surface there might not appear to be much of a pattern to intel's cpu

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launch schedule over the last nine years ever since they separated their

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enthusiasts and their mainstream product lineups but there are a couple of key

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takeaways here one is that intel typically launches

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enthusiast flagship processors at any of

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three times per year during ces in early january during computex in early summer

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or right before the holiday shopping season in early autumn after the launch

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a couple of things will happen depending on the strength of the new product

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compared to last gen the pricing for the older parts will either hold pretty

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steady while the stock trickles off the shelves or it'll

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plummet and there will be deals on

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motherboards one of intel's rather annoying habits is their tendency to

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drop a new motherboard chipset on the consumers even if it isn't strictly

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needed for compatibility and or doesn't even offer a tangible performance

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improvement so that is actually where some of the best deals can be found

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lightly discounted cpus and clearance motherboards bundled together and this

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can be true of amd as well 3rd gen ryzen chips paired with b450 motherboards are

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currently one heck of a killer value combo

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but another consideration that didn't used to be a big deal when it came to

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computer processors is support

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as cpus have gotten more complex timely patches for security vulnerabilities

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like spectre and meltdown have become more and more of a factor and some users

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were very disappointed to discover that their still very functional 900 series

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core i7 processor would not be getting a patch for spectre or meltdown the main

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lesson here for computer enthusiasts then is that cpus and actually graphics

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cards for that matter have a seasonality to them as well so in conclusion i'd say

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go ahead and upgrade your pc ram whenever you want this year and if

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you're unsure how much you need maybe check out our guide right over here just

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maybe keep a close eye on ssd prices especially if you're targeting the lower

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capacity parts and if you start to see things creep up maybe pull the trigger

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sooner rather than later thing is you got to save money on that

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