So here we are in Brazil and even though we've spent so much time here
We just recently found out that the iPhone here is the most expensive iPhone
in the entire world!
And today we're gonna find out why this iPhone is so expensive
in a developing country
and how this influences the Brazilian people
So let's go find out!
We're gonna see how much an iPhone costs in Brazil
Alright we just stumbled upon the new iPhone 12
and let's see how much this costs
It costs 8,000 Reais!
That's double the price of what it would cost in America
That's so insane!
This is my iPhone 11 that I bought when it came out
and this is the iPhone 11 here
and this costs over one and a half times the price!
Why are iPhones so expensive in Brazil?
Here in Brazil we pay a lot of taxes
We have a status that if you have an iPhone
you have a great smartphone
so they pay more for more status
Is it the government or is it Apple that makes the price so high??
The governments take a lot of these taxes
but Apple here in Brazil takes more, because they know about this status
To get a better perspective on what it's like to have an iPhone in Brazil
We're gonna talk to our friend Mau Mau, who once had an iPhone
Hey guys, hi again!
What happened to your iPhone?
I was driving and like listening to Lady Gaga
And then I stopped the car, the traffic was like intense
Just like that I hear my window break
And then I just saw like a hand
It was just like a second guys and I tried to reach for my iPhone
My hand was bleeding
It was brand new, like one month usage!
And so you can't even keep an iPhone for one month in Brazil
Yes man!
Here people want an iPhone to impress other people
When you meet people and they see you have an iPhone
they change their attitude, it's crazy here like
Oh you have an iPhone wow you're so rich! Yeah!
They treat you differently
Have you ever seen them like Tinder or any dating apps
where people like showcase like the Apple logo on the pictures??
That is so funny! It's always like that!
Duck face and...
You are woaaah this guy's rich, I'm gonna talk to him
but if I show this, he's gonna say "oh okay"
Swipe left!
People here, they want so much the phone
that they don't care about their whole life
They don't buy nice food for their homes, they save money
just by an iPhone
and that's CRAZY here!!
Here they just want to show the world that they LOOK rich
but inside most of them, they're not rich
Alright so now we're going to talk to some locals to get their perspective about the iPhone in Brazil
So unfortunately, Mau Mau was not the only person whose iPhone got stolen in Brazil
Just a few weeks ago we met our friends from America in Rio de Janeiro
and this is what happened...
I heard like little footsteps come up behind me
and like as I turned, some dude hit me right in the face
And I dropped my phone
and it all happened so quick
and I think this is how they get people?
Is that, you're just like doing your thing or whatever
and then the next second you're surrounded by like a bunch of people
The craziest thing was none of the locals did anything...
And I felt bad because that's what they do like
They just jack people's phones I guess and just sell them on the black market like
It gave me perspective like I didn't realise the severity of how bad some of the people had it in the favela
Until that happened to me, I was like damn...
This is what they have to do to get food and money and all
It's like it's terrible
But obviously I don't condemn stealing a phone and punching someone in the face...
And then we call our friend Henry, who lives in a favela in Rio
to get a better understanding on the iPhone thieves perspective...
There he is! Hi Henry!
So as you know there are a lot of stolen iPhones in Brazil
and since the wealth inequality in Brazil is of the highest in the world
I suppose that probably most of the iPhones are stolen by some of the poorer people in Brazil
Why do you think that some of the poorer people feel like they have to turn to stealing
an iPhone in Brazil?
The wage and the wealth discrepancies that these people have
Not that it's EVER an excuse to steal anything!
But you do have to understand that in societal terms
A lot of these people have NO chance
Let's just rewind for a second
There's quite an industry here in Brazil
Where people are taking an extra phone or two when they come on their trip
That's an actual business here in Brazil
Almost like iPhone dealing like drug dealing is like iPhone dealing in Brazil
It is and it's a real thing!
Here we are right now at a subscriber's house, Abe!
And our friend embodies the full Apple lifestyle
So none of these things you bought in Brazil??
No, in the US, in Europe, Canada and Portugal
Apple products in Brazil are so expensive, that it's literally cheaper
to travel to United States, stay four nights in a hotel in Miami
buy your MacBook Pro and then come back to Brazil and you're STILL saving money!
That's so crazy! Get yourself a free holiday guys!
And with that, thank you guys all for watching
and we hope that with this video you gain some more insight
on what it's like to be in the country with the most expensive iPhone
and how it influences the people socially
Due to the extreme social inequality here in Brazil
as you saw in our video
Some people feel like they have to literally punch someone in the face, just to steal an iPhone
We obviously don't have any answers to how do we fix the social inequality here in Brazil
But what we can do is get a little bit more EMPATHY for all sides
Yeah and in the end we are our environment
and if we are in the end of the day fighting for survival
We will do things that we never thought we would do
just to get food on the table to take care of our families
and therefore building compassion from within is the way to go
Thank you guys so much for watching this video
Oh wait hang on a second, my friend's calling let's see??
What's that?
Yeah, by the way this is my iPhone just in case you didn't know
um but he's saying, what do you saying?
He's saying make sure like the video
Subscribe and comment!
Oh yeah, comment and we'll see you next week!
We have way more exciting videos to come in the future in Brazil!
So stay tuned, bye!
By the way this is Apple by the way ;)