[apinkel]

I looked at an iphone when I got my TP... it has a nice user interface. I probably could have lived with some of the other shortcomings of the iphone but there was no way I was going to throw that much money away on a phone.

I'm on sprint, I've got a $45 phone plan and unlimited data plan, I got my TP on sale at BB for $200 and I've spent all of $30 on software and I've installed a bunch of stuff.

The cheapest equivalent plan I could get on AT&T was $70/month. Most of the software (if available for the iphone) costs money. Over a 2year period the plan cost differences alone would have been $600.

That's one healthy apple tax.