The new iPhone X. AFP. After Apple unveiled its shiny new iPhone X to the world, French media noted with wonder and consternation that the hi-tech gadget cost almost exactly the same as a worker on France’s minimum wage earns for a month’s labour. "Is the iPhone X worth a SMIC?" asked a headline in Le Parisien newspaper , using the French abbreviation for the monthly minimum wage that is legally fixed at €1,149 after tax. The cheapest version of the iPhone X, unveiled on Tuesday at Apple’s new "spaceship" headquarters in California, will be sold in France from November 3 priced at €1,159.

Source: The Local September 13, 2017 15:33 UTC