Could be cross border fee, charged by your card issuing bank. Not Apple.

Sure enough I'm using CIMB. After the call with Apple they said it's a 1% merchant fee charged by the issuing bank. I was told to wait for my statement to arrive and redact anything irrelevant, then send them a copy so they can process the refund back to my card. I waited 20 minutes on the line before I was served though

i am using this beats audio cable to connect from my iphone and ipad to the aux port of my car audio system. the sound quality is excellent, it is even better than the sound from car audio player itself. so the source as iphone or ipad, the sound quality is really nice.

previously:

iphone/ipad ------audio cable----------> aux port (car)

i like the cable becos it is angled 90 degree for one side, suitable to use it in car.

https://www.apple.com/my/shop/product/MHE12...ats-audio-cable

now:

iphone/ipad ------bluetooth----> bluetooth receiver------->aux port (car)

i just place the bluetooth receiver at the holder near the gear below the audio system. so the audio cable is considered a bit too long, but i just tie it up to make it neater.  it does not have built-in battery so i just connect a usb-A to micro-usb cable all the time.

this is an permanent add-up to my old car that does not have the latest tech. haha. but this cheap solution really works very well than changing a bluetooth capable of car audio system.

never feel that listening audio from my iphone/ipad in my old car can be so convenient. haha.

Hmphhhhh...to be honest i dont really noticed any significant gain based on my usage. After all, iPhone is just a boring phone, nothing much to be excite about. Hahaha.
Only 2 times noticed the improvement, 1st enrolment of deep fusion and when they enrol to auto-detect face mask usage for faceID.
But at least it’s the 1st phone in the past 5 years cross 9 months of usage as my personal phone. 😂

i believe iphone 12 should have similar pricing as iphone 11. dun think it will be more expensive at least for the starting price.

older iphone price will surely be lowered when the new one it out too. However, if you notice closely, every year the percentage of the price drop for previous model will like be just like USD100 cheaper. to be frank, it may still be more worth it to get the latest model. Unless you are buying from other dealers that are selling below the official dropped price for the older models.

A lot of those which are much lower than RRP are either telco, lucky draw or units which we have no ideas how they got it for
Otherwise, normal discount on Apple products are so limited, it still costs a kidney to buy (like the iPhone Pro's).

yup, if buy from official channel basically there is not much discount at all. pretty much one is paying regular price.

to be frank, if to calculate the total cost of ownership (monthly mobile plan cost x 24 + initial price paid for the iPhone) in bolehland to own an iPhone seriously the subsidy is not attractive at all. it will just be kind of instalment payment mode.

especially to consider the fact one can just pay rm35 per month nett without worrying extra data or call charges for prepaid easily.

Apple will not give big discounts nor gifts because they know their products can sell.
In fact they spend far less in advertising compared to their rivals like Samsung mobile. Apple products can sell by themselves thanks to all the fanboys (like us)

The ads have existed all the time since the day one. Every company will have marketing dollars to spend. TV, billboard, newspaper, sticker labels on bus stops, etc are just marketing methods.
What I am saying is the marketing dollars spent for Apple is multiple times lower than Samsung mobile.

You can read up some articles about it, these are published

the amount of youtube reviews on apple products are already the best advertisement. many youtubers are relying on apple to making livings.

I like how you describe stucked by just watching. XD
Me too!!

The iPhone 11 Pro/Pro Max indeed feel quite a big thicker comparing to iPhone XS/XS Max.

you can see the difference when you read the battery specs on each model...

how do you transfer whatsapp chat history from android to iPhone?
My current chat history from Android is all backed up on Google Drive

yeah.. at the point i posted that, switch was the one publicly announcing the price drop compared to machine...
but yeah i'm also waiting for 12 price tag as well...

How much can i sell my ip 11 pro max 512gb myset?warranty till oct 2020,already made full payment to telco rm6883 and end my contract

Bro... Wrong thread bro. Lel.

is this rm500 discount till end of the year...?

not really affect much on the performance since the amount of data that is really needed to be read/write on the phone during daily operation is actually very little. unless you constantly downloading apps/offline videos or musics.

only situation where the performance of iphone will really be affected is the overheating issue. if your iphone gets overheated during long game play, i can significantly feel the lag of my iphone.

I have a new iPhone 11 pro max 256gb, how much can I sell this for? Anyone know the market price?