[whyagaindavid]

Sadly, I do know that some HN-hackers may have qualms about money and comparison but the title could be extended to have "... for the rich".

It is increasingly a bubble for the rich to super-elite not necessarily for the average citizen. http://time.com/money/4346766/mark-zuckerberg-houses/

[sebular]

Not that I see the logic in comparing the cost of an iPhone to Mark Zuckerberg buying buffer properties, but the cheapest new iPhone you can buy on apple.com is the iPhone 7 for $449, and that's without doing any price hunting. It's an entirely functional phone that has all of the same privacy features as any other iPhone, and it offers similar performance to other phones at that price.

Furthermore, there are plenty of people who live near the poverty line that will be buying an iPhone XS Max this year. They deserve privacy just as much as anyone else, and if they're deciding between spending a disproportional amount of their income on an iPhone or the latest Galaxy Note, the correct advice in terms of privacy would still be "buy an iPhone."

[saagarjha]

And I'm sure the $349 iPhone SE is still being sold until stock for that runs out.