I have this thought in my head, and I doubt there’s anything that will be able to change it—even if God sends His dear son to come in Galilee clothing to appeal to me. I have concluded that the people who are rushing to buy the iPhone 17, especially the Pro Max, are people who have trees that grow money in their backyard. Because seriously, how do people do it?
I’m a Nigerian, and this iPhone is around 5 million naira. Just imagine pulling out a whopping sum of 5 million naira to buy a phone that will soon be waved off to usher in an upgrade (iPhone 18). The people buying it must have this money in excess and, sorry to say, I think there’s also a sort of enchantment that follows the phone whenever it’s released that makes people want to get it by all means. Yeah, I’m an African, and I think there’s a sprinkle or invocation of magic in the announcement of the release of the phone.
So yeah, I don’t have excess money to buy the phone and also, even if I get the excess money, my head will be too strong to be captured by the spiritual substance sprinkled on the phone that makes it so irresistible to a lot of people.
As it is now, the people who have bought it in Nigeria—I mean the people who have showcased it on the internet—the purchase is basically for show-off. Yes, that’s it. They just want to let the world know that they bought the most expensive and trending iPhone, and they do it just to get talked about. I’m saying this with respect to my country because a lot of people that have bought it and have shown it to the world through social media are just chasing clout. They want to tell the world they’re rich and have money in excess. They want to tell the world that they don’t know what to use their money for, and for sure, under the comment section of their purchase announcement, you’ll see a rain of advice from people. Lol.
There’s a young content creator who bought this iPhone 17 Pro Max. Mehn, you needed to see how Nigerians were raining advice on him—the kind that could make him return the phone the following day. Lol.
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