How much the iPhone X really costs you

Tomorrow is the Second Coming: the iPhone X launch day. Even arriving over a month after the iPhone 8, it’s still hotly anticipated.

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It’s also pricey. If you look at the local price tag of the 64GB iPhone X and compare to the average wage in each nation (as Quartz did earlier today), you’ll notice a massive disparity around the world in how much working time is needed to pay for Apple’s most haloed fondleslab. The average Indian worker would need to toil for over nine months, for example. Here’s the scene in Asia:

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Graphic: Tech in Asia.

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Globally, India, Russia, and Mexico, respectively, have to work the longest for it among markets where the iPhone X is scheduled to launch. Though if your wage packet is that slim, maybe you shouldn’t be spending so much on a new phone.