Great to have you here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you learning ways to

save more and spend less.

And don't let anyone ever rip you off if you are someone who uses iPhone or you're thinking

of switching from Android to iPhone.

Don't buy an iPhone over the next many weeks because Apple and the phones that they're

preparing to launch later this fall in October are going to have pretty much a lineup of 5G

phones and they're going to make initially according to Bloomberg 75 million 5G iPhones.

And that means that if you buy a new iPhone right now you're paying top dollar for something

that is the three big cell phone carriers migrate their networks to 5G you're going to be

suffering having a very expensive phone that won't operate on the new 5G networks.

Apple users tend to hold their phones for a longer period of time and it would be a risky

venture for you to lay out money.

Now if you live in an area where you don't really care about reception because the reception

you have is just fine the speed of the network just fine wait till the new 5G iPhones come

out and the value of used iPhones will be much much lower because a lot of people want

the latest greatest when Apple has an inflection point and the new 5G iPhones will be an inflection

point and so you'll be able to find people's use now unloved iPhones at a lower price than they

would have been before. And so I strongly recommend waiting now what's significant about this is a lot of

Android manufacturers have been making 5G phones since last year but in the United States Apple is

so important in terms of a brand that most Americans have not paid attention to the buildouts of

these 5G networks until Apple says it's important and Apple next month is saying it's important and

people will gravitate. Apple's sales of iPhones have declined I think it's four or five years in a

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