Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "New gadgets sales are down, is it any surprise why?" video.

@Zam432F If you've got an iCloud account your phone will tell you if it's backed up or it will tell you that you lack the cloud space to back it up. Assuming you're moving to a new iphone, Apple makes it very easy to move. If you log into your new phone with the same account, all your data is available on a new phone (or as I recall, you can move to the new phone by taking a picture of a pattern on the screen of the old phone). If you're doing more than moving to a later iPhone (such as moving to an Android phone) it will be more complex, and more than I can possibly type into a YouTube comment.
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As you say, the big thing with phones in particular is people are looking at a new iPhone @ $1300. Same price as a desktop computer, and they expect to get 4-6 years out of it; especially since Apple has been reduced to "slightly faster, better camera". There's nothing there to make that interesting unless they drop the price at least in half.
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