Since June 29, 2007, few items have inspired more considerable envy than the latest iPhone. The touchscreen, the retina display, the selfie camera, the 6.9 mm thickness, the portrait mode, or whatever new feature Apple offered, caused owners of the old model to lament their phone’s obsolescence and scrounge up the many hundreds of dollars needed to upgrade and keep up.

As the iPhone got thinner, taller, shorter, squarer, more curved, it kept getting more expensive. For the last two years, iPhone users have been shelling out a thousand dollars for the iPhone X.