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US salaries are much higher. What looks like a reasonable spending on quality and privacy (especially with an operator offering a loan) when you make $180k, may look senseless display of wealth when you make $90k.

Replace iPhone with something like Vertu.

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privacy? Don't you mean "money spent in advertising more privacy while at the same time not having it?"

I'm glad you know every European iPhone owners' financial situation. Good for you.

Also I happen to live part of the year in Europe. And found the price of Apple products to be within 10% of Apple US.

I'm glad you do

The thing is that I have a ton of friends all over EU, UK, and Switzerland, and have an idea of the salaries, mostly in the IT. I'm not speaking from some theoretical assumptions.

I don't need to know the financial situation of the iPhone owners. I need to know the financial situation of the 50% of population, to compare to the 50% penetration rate in the US.

As much as I understand, phone carriers / operators subsidize phones in Europe to a much smaller extent than in the US, too.

So your friends in IT are representative?

They are hold comparable positions in several countries, in Europe and in US.

And that makes them representative of the broader population of all users?

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