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The Jelly is $100, the iPhone SE is $350.

You can also pretty easily resell the iPhone after two years to recapture at least a third of the MSRP.

One can't imagine any "used" market for this other sort of phone...

Whoops, you're right on the price. I was looking at the pre-order price. The used iPhone market is really that strong?

Much stronger than any other brand: https://swappa.com/sell/iphones

It sure is. There are plenty of people who want an iPhone but can't afford and/or simply don't need/want the latest, greatest version (being able to run 11.0.1 isn't really a big concern for most of them). A good friend of mine just upgraded to an iPhone 4 a few months ago.

Pretty much all Apple products have excellent resale value (around here, anyways).

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