Why I'm not getting a $999 iPhone

I think Apple did a good job with its new phone. It puts a big screen in a small body.

Bezels? Gone. And the Face ID hardware conveniently powers the most adorable thing ever: Animoji. Plus, Nilay said the iPhone X feels like "the future of the smartphone," and I love the future. I'm due for an upgrade: My iPhone 7 has a broken screen, and I already feel the battery fading. I typically buy one phone a year, and it's been a year. The insatiable consumer in me feels an urge to buy something, and the technologist in me feels the urge to buy one of the most advanced phones on the planet. But I think I'm good, actually. I might buy an iPhone 8 if I get a good trade-in deal through my carrier. Wireless charging would be nice to have, and I always enjoy a nice bump in processor speed. But I don't think I'm really the sort of person the iPhone X was built for. I like my phone. I use it a lot. But I guess I'm not a phone person, and apparently it required a $999 iPhone to prove it to me. It's sort of like with cars. If I bought a car, I would try and find one that's really reliable and convenient, with good gas mileage and a nice resale value. I'm not a car person. It's not that I can't appreciate a car that goes fast, or looks amazing. It's just that those things aren't very central to my identity, or high on my priority list. The iPhone X is a Ferrari but all I want is a Honda, is what I'm saying. Am I doing this car analogy thing right? If the iPhone X was the only new iPhone available, and if it was available for a typical iPhone price, I would be overjoyed. Design-wise it's everything I want in a phone. But the iPhone 8 is good enough for me. Great, even. And it's $300 cheaper. These are the obvious economic considerations that people all over the world make when buying all kinds of products. But Apple has only had one flagship iPhone until now, so the choice was always fairly simple: do I need a new phone, or no? Now I have to decide if I want a great phone or a greater phone, and I'm realizing that I have no desire to pay extra for a greater phone.                                                                      https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/13/16300470/why-im-not-getting-the-iphone-x