Last week Apple officially announced the eighth generation iPhone at a special event in Cupertino, California. In addition to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, now we also have the iWatch. I don't know if they are the latest technology that will make me fly to the moon or not (I bet not) so let's cut to the chase. If you're looking for a SIM-free iPhone 6, which will be released this Friday, you'll need to have a treasure at the ready. The 16 GB iPhone 6 will set you back $649, 539 pounds, AU$869, while the 128 GB version is a whopping $849, 699 pounds, AU$1,129 SIM-free. In the Turkish market the 16 GB model will be selling at TL 2,349 and the 128 GB model will priced at TL 2,949 TL.Pre-orders opened Sept. 12 and a record 4 million first-day pre-orders were made. The reports say that its estimated first-weekend sales will be up to 10 million units.Meanwhile, some people literally can't wait. People are ready to pay double the retail price of the new iPhones because they can't really bear the thought of having to wait a few weeks to own one. The price for an iPhone 6 Plus 128 GB hit $2,000 (TL 4,435) on an eBay auction. According to TIME.com, one eBay seller had an asking price of $6,000 for a gold unlocked 64 GB iPhone 6 - the regular one.How have people become so needy? Where does this unnatural appetite come from? Is the new iPhone 6 really that much better than the iPhone 5S they had last year, or the iPhone 5 a year before that? Is it really a need, or an imaginary and invented one? What is this madness? Last week I was in Niamey, the capital of Niger, the lowest-ranked country on the U.N.'s Human Development Index. Niger, a poor country, faces many of the problems encountered in sub-Saharan Africa like high population growth, having the world's highest infant mortality rate and highest fertility rate, high maternal mortality rate and recurrent drought makes the problems particularly acute. Beyond that there is one other problem - blindness.1.2 percent of the entire population of Africa is blind, cataracts is the leading cause of blindness in Africa. Around 50 percent of blindness in sub-Saharan Africa is due to cataracts and Niger is one of the places where manpower and material resources are inadequate to meet the increasing backlog of this treatable blindness. There are around 130,000 cataract patients in Niger where there is one eye doctor for every 600,000 people. Right after the official announcement by Apple, watching the opening ceremony of the new eye hospital in Niamey built with the cooperation of The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms (IHH) and Humanitarian Relief Foundation, Islamic Development Bank, Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) and the Niger Ministry of Health, I thought how many iPhones does an eye surgery cost? But the question was wrong. The correct one should be: how many eyes can gain sight at one iPhone's cost?The IHH's Africa Cataract Project helped more than 80,000 African people to regain their sight. With a donation of $80 one can be a part of this project and give light to the eyes of one person from Africa. It means at around one 10th of an iPhone 6's price, one blind person sees again. Tell me, is this fair? Really, are resources as scarce as we are taught? Why do Africans lives so cheap while an Apple product is so expensive? After a week, I am still thinking if the appetite for an iPhone 6 is scarier or the poverty in Africa.