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Topic: Approximated $6 billion spent on iPhone repairs

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Research implies that $5.9 billion has possibly been spent on iPhone repairs since the original was launched in 2007. The phones are extremely stylish, but are considered to be fragile and somewhat of a fussbudget, as well as expensive to repair. Article resource: shouldn't you take a review of https://personalmoneynetwork.com/personal-loans/?

Some sticker iShock for iPhone repairs
Crack open the business or technology portion of most any main newspaper or magazine and usually there will be a new weekly heap of praise for Apple and the iPhone and/or the iPad. It's only going to get even worse when the iPhone5 comes out, which is going to take the brown-nosing to disgusting new lows. The obsequiousness of the press knows no boundaries for some time, but perhaps they might want to slow it down a bit.

Something that might give an individual pause is the cost of iPhone fixes. According to Time magazine, SquareTrade estimates that $5.9 billion has been spent on iPhone repairs since the thing came out in 2007.

Must be due to owners
SquareTrade surveyed approximately 2,000 iPhone owners, examining the data and extrapolating an estimate from there. According to Businessweek, the survey also found 30 percent of owners had ruined their iPhone within the past year and, according to Time, that 11 percent of iPhone owners with damaged phones keep their phone with a cracked screen and 6 percent keep their phone held together with tape.

The most common way a phone would get damaged would be when someone mistakenly dropped it in water in some way or accidently dropped it. You need a short term loan to be able to cover replacing a screen though since it can cost over $150 to do. It was 10 times more likely that a phone would be ruined in an accident than stolen or lost, and most of the damage was self-inflicted.

Perhaps one incentive toward buying the iPhone 5 is that it has only one pane of glass, the screen, instead of two. The case is also made from aluminum, rather than composite.

Does not matter what phone you get
The estimated cost of iPhone fixes might seem a reason for Android owners to rub it in, but switching to a phone with Google's OS will not save you. According to Wired, a survey last year by WDS, a wireless services company, found that Android owners were far more likely to call into repair and customer services centers than iPhone owners.

Approximately 14 percent of calls to service centers concerning Android phones in the WDS study were for issues with hardware. Just 11 percent were for iPhones. Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices were even less likely to break down. WDS estimates fielding complaints and issues with Android phones costs telecom companies $2 billion per year, globally.

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