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Originally Posted by mlin
The iPhone advertising was huge in its success. Look what happened with the droid, that phone sold like crazy and its arguably not the best android phone out. Everything else in your statement I disagree with. AT&T's plans were not and still are not cheaper than Sprints and the iPhone dropped to $399 WITH a contract within a few months of initial release. This price is obviously not "significantly cheaper than Windows Mobilie phones" were at the time...
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Everybody keeps saying "the iphone was $399 after the price drop." Please read the links I posted to get the REAL price. There were 2 models of iPhones- an 8GB and a 4GB. The 8GB was $399, but the 4GB was only $299, and they were selling refurbs for $99.
So compare that $299 price (we won't even touch the $99 refurb price) to the $450 a PPC-6700 cost at the time (on a new contract, $630 full retail). Yeah, it was only the 4GB model. But that was still 4GB more than the PPC-6700 had. And if I recall correctly, the biggest Mini SD you could get for the the PPC-6700 at the time was only 2GB anyway.
And yes, that is SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper. $150 cheaper, and then it had a cheaper monthly plan on top of that ($20 data with 200 text messages included for the iPhone, compared to $25 data with another $5 to $10 for text messages on the PPC-6700 depending on the text message plan you picked).