I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren’t worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.

  • ribbooEnglish
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    6 months ago

    100% the other way around for me. My phone is the one thing I own, I use the most. To have a more fluid experience is worth a couple of hundred dollars. The hourly price difference is minuscule.

    • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I have found that most mid tier phones and high end ones are pretty similar in practical performance and use. Even cheap phones around 300 or 200$ are pretty good nowadays and there’s not much of a reason to get a really expensive one anymore. Expensive Phones simply haven’t innovated much in the last couple years while cheap phones have gotten better and better, which is why phone sales are at a 10 year low right now.

      • Mango@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        My super phone is excellent and does everything I expect it to. My roommates’s cheap phone somehow has worse versions of each app we install. He had to find something very specific to cast to the Roku. The type c to HDMI adapter does nothing with his phone. For some reason a mech game we play straight up wouldn’t let him use certain core features until half a year later. Also for some damn reason, texts barely make it through to his phone. I gotta hit ‘switch to SMS/MMS’ all the time after sending him something that fails to send.