since when is it a companies obligation to worry about the resale value of a discontinued product? That's a new one...
I think it started with car commercials talking about their resale value. However, a car is a capital investment.
This is consumer electronics, although some people tend to think otherwise and perhaps attempt to make it so with attitudes and opinions, because of the cost of entry and the fact that some actually make a living with it. However, resale is what the market will bear at any given time.
That said, if the entire selling market keeps prices for their used gear high then that's where the market will stay. It's only a buyers' market if you let it happen. It's not like the housing market crash. No one had
equity in their XL+ that evaporated overnight.
And oh by the way it's not like 100,000 XL+'s just suddenly went on sale. That's the chicken little sky-is-falling syndrome of the internet echo chamber in general and forums in particular. Between the announcement thread and this thread you'd think the whole frickin' world just ended the way some people are reacting. You people know who you are. I probably put you on Ignore (about a half dozen since the III announcement) for being astonishingly unstable, so don't worry about responding right away with your manic retort.
My rules for this kind of stuff:
1 - If you don't have the cash you can't afford it.
2 - It's not the maker's fault if you can't afford it.
2.5 - The resale value of the thing is not the responsibility of the maker of the thing. Never was, never will be, so...
3 - Don't expect to get back what you think it's worth when you go to sell it.
4 - Take the plastic off. It's not going to affect the resale value. That's just stupid.
5 - So what if there's a new thing coming? I'm still on the iPhone 6+.
So, to this I say to everyone reading: None of this is important. It's all just stuff.
