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Apple's iPhone Ten is supposed to stand for the future of applied science. Unfortunately, it appears that future isn't going to be one any of the states can afford. The company's service pricing page for its upcoming phone makes it clear that anyone who breaks their iPhone X tin can look forwards to paying an arm and a leg to have information technology stock-still.

The iPhone X's repair fees are enormous. If you scissure the screen, you'll have to pay Apple tree $279 for a new telephone. If you break annihilation else, including the dorsum of the device, yous'll take to pony upward $549. This huge leap in repair costs is both a blatant attempt to force people to use AppleCare+ and an unprecedented increase even compared to Apple's previous products. Apple tree's express warranty provides protection against internal defects, just doesn't cover a cracked back or whatever other damage caused by the stop user.

Here'south how the various iPhones stack up as far as out-of-warranty repairs. First, hither's the small-screen devices:

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The toll to repair a screen has grown by 1.16x over the past few years, but any other problem volition run you i.3x more than on an iPhone viii than an iPhone SE. How practice the big-phone figures look?

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From the iPhone 6 Plus to the iPhone 8, the toll of a screen repair has only risen by $twenty, simply like the smaller screen smartphones. The iPhone X'south screen repair now costs 1.65x as much, while repairing literally anything else on the telephone volition cost you over $500 if yous don't have AppleCare+. In fact, you can buy an iPhone SE for $200 less than you'll pay to ready the cracked back on an iPhone X. Allow that sink in a moment.

And the hits keep coming. Want AppleCare+ for the iPhone 10? That's $199, compared to $149 for the iPhone 6s, 7 Plus, and iPhone 8 Plus and $129 for the iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, and iPhone 8.

Even buying AppleCare+ doesn't go on you lot from paying through the nose to repair the device — y'all can look forward to screen repairs at $29 and "other" repairs at $99. Normally extended warranties aren't worth the money, but Apple has managed to hit on a neat mode to monetize them — accuse so much for out-of-warranty repairs that paying the company another few hundred dollars is the only sane affair to exercise.

The iPhone X went on pre-society today. Estimated ship times are already 5-six weeks away. Given the colossal cost of repairing the iPhone 10, ET strongly recommends anyone considering one of these devices buy a very expert case. $549 to repair a cracked dorsum (and the back does not count every bit a screen) is just absurd. Apple'southward increased AppleCare+ pricing is either the event of its own manufacturing prices (in which case it represents consumer-hostile decision making) or an attempt to channel more than acquirement into Apple'due south ain coffers. Either style, the iPhone X is looking like an increasingly bad deal.