The contract 24 months? RM96 x 24 =RM2304( Device price for 2 years ) + rm68 every month.. Worth meh??

Not to say worth or not, but i poor fag cant afford

Sry, i dont mean that. But u should try umobile which give better offer than Maxis. FYI, i m from Sarawak too

Its ok bro Yeah, but currently im in Kuching ma, will go back to KL by this month end to continue my studies. RM17X per month is kinda heavy for me but will sort it out sooner or later, and 2 years contract is really long tho but doesnt matter ba.

Hi, I am currently a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 user for almost 3 years. I am intending to own an iPhone and based on my budget I am looking forward to an iPhone SE 64gb. So, is it worth for me to transition from a Note 3 to an iPhone SE? I'm surely gonna miss the large screen though but overall is it worth? Thank you.

I have been and iphone user for the past 3.5 years and Ipad user since the very first iPad. I like the iOS platform and have been a very loyal fan to Apple. But recently I have change my mind towards Apple. I find that Apple products is getting more and more expensive to own. The very first iPad one was considered a breakthrough product and it's pricing was really great at RM1699 for the base model. A revolutionary product at great price. Compare to the latest iPad Pro 9.7" which Apple raise the retail price to RM2699. Apple has been keeping the price the same for all previous iPad but then decided to raise the price for iPad pro which is ridiculous.

Back in 2011, the iPhone 4 16GB retail for RM2190 but the iPhone 6S retail for RM3199. For the 6S Plus its even more. Yes, we did see some currency but in reality APPle just becomes too greedy.

I don't think I will be buying another Apple iphone anymore. The reason is because its too expensive and also Android is getting better and better now. There is a lot of phone for half or 1/3 of the price of iPhone that basically is good enough for all my needs.

And for the SE, i think its way overprice too. Yes, its a fast phone but the screen size of 4" is just to yesteryear. You can easily get a decent 5" phone that is a lot more useful than the SE for half the price.

I am wondering why are we still supporting Apple which in fact we should be embracing Google. Google give everything to us for free. Gmail, Waze, Google Maps, Youtube, etc.

Anyway, that is just my opinion.

It screen downgrade will be huge diff... from 5.7 to 4 is big drop. I don think u will get use to it. Most of the Android application jump to iOS but 4.7" should b the minimum screen you should look at.

If budget is it consideration I would suggest u sell the note3 and sign up phone plan. Ur spend will be less.

anyone know any shops that still have stock? ty

Weak currency is largely to blame for this, frankly speaking.

Nothing is free mate 😅

lol google make money by advertising...

Half-half, actually. With regards to the prices of iPhones, it's basically the ringgit becoming less valuable than toilet paper which is causing RM$500 - $800 increments in prices of most of the Apple products. On Apple's side, they still are greedy enough to sell 16GB devices in 2015/2016, forcing people to pay more for the higher storage option, and for products like the iPad Pro and new MacBook, yeah, Apple has overpriced them severely for not that much technology/features. So basically, both our third-world currency and Apple's first-world mentality are equally to blame.

i agree

i use xiaomi mi4i before and just switch to iphone 6. 1 thing i can say : overrated

android seems to be getting better, and the price is very much less to iphone (i took xiaomi as example, mimax is coming)

not a fanboy of xiaomi/android but basically you can get better from android compare to iphone, just saying

Yeap. Couldn't agree more. Android is catching up and more customisable (There is reason for apple stock to drop ). Blame marketing. They put a pretty picture on the billboard with "Taken with iphone 6s" slogan But I jumped to apple because of higher resale value and consistency in software update. Just my personal preference.

This post has been edited by Charizard: May 21 2016, 09:48 PM

It depends on each user why they make the jump and why they would stick to IOS.
Just for Android user, they would be aware Manufacturers have issues maintaining their flagship software whereby each year they keep releasing new flagship and eventually left to EOL within 2-3 years shortly after release. While, iOS is able to maintain their OS for 4-5 years?

I'm still wondering if NFC library will be available publicly for developer access as they insisted on NFC is reserved for NFC Pay. At least they should include a NFC iShare on iOS 10 release later this year with iPhone 7?

yeah

That is what I thought. 3 -4 years ago, Android really weak compared to iOS. Today Android has improved so much that I would be happy with either OS. Then factoring in the price, it's pretty hard to justify buying the iPhone anymore. In fact iPhone and iPad has lost its appeal among many consumers judging from the drop in sales in the last 6 months. Apple iPad sales has been on the decline for 2 years now. The way I see it, all empire will collapse eventually and this is the beginning of the fall of Apple. When Steve Job was around, you only have 1 iPhone model. Now we have 3 screen size. So is the iPad. Apple under Tim Cook is more like Apple under the CEO John Sculley.

Also Apple is more about profit margin than user experience now. For a long time the iPad camera is so bad until recently the put a better camera in the iPad pro. The iPhone SE still use 1MP front camera! If Apple really care about user experience, they would have put the 3D Touch on the SE too but they rather withheld it probably for the next SE2 so user have to upgrade again. And 3D Touch should just be added as a new feature for the yearly update for iPad but Apple decided to call it Pro and raise the price by US$100. And the Iphone 6S should have the same optical stabilize camera like the 6S Plus but its not. My iPad Air only have 1GB ram and that really sucks when surfing the web where the pages will have to be reload every time I switch between tap.

I was excited when Apple launched the new Apple TV and again so disappointed when I see the price. That thig is basically a streaming tv box but price 2x above the competitors.

I was really excited about the Apple watch and again turn off by the price. And I don't think I would like a watch that needs charging everyday.

Sorry Apple. I use to love your product so much but I have to go to Android.

Fully agreed but as a user, I pay nothing for the great apps.

Thanks a lot for your opinion. Frankly I never have the experience of using Apple's product. As I'm using this baby Note 3 for quite a long time so I'm planning to change it with a new one. As people keep on asking me "get an iphone! get an iphone!", so I'm doing a little bit of research whether is it worth to change to an iPhone with my tight budget.

But now I realised that I can get a Note 5 with the same price and I can still enjoy a large screen though. Looks like I'm sticking to Android.

Once again thanks for your opinion.

Yes. I never use any Apple product before this. Changing from a large screen to very small one is not a great idea I see. I love my note 3 and intending to keep it as my secondary phone. I surveyed some of the phone plans. Most of it offer a 24-month contract which is not prefferable. That's why I don't prefer to go for a phone plan.

By the way, thanks for your opinion though.