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I'm also not sure why you would think that Apple would sell an iPhone for the same price as an iPod Touch. FYI - You can buy a non-subsidized iPhone (though it is still locked to AT&T) for the following prices (copied from the T's & C's on Apple's web-site)... Quote:
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the ipod is the only good apple product to date. they make the worst hardware ive ever seen. macbooks fallapart, overheat, and thier fans turn to crap instantly. mygfs got a macbook pro, ive got a vaio, i dropped mine down the stairs and its completely fine, she has never really moved it from her desk and its dying. you cant do anything to an iphone. you cant even take the back off and put in an extended life battery. i mean you cant even cook up a rom for it. the iphone is a fashion accescory. htc makes top notch phones that are incidentally, very fashionable. |
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Function: noun: a grant or gift of money: as a : a sum of money formerly granted by the British Parliament to the crown and raised by special taxation b : money granted by one state to another c : a grant by a government to a private person or company to assist an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public Apple is subsidizing NOTHING. In all realitiy ATT is basically buying the rights to exclusively resell iPhones in the USA (for $450-500 paid to apple per activated iPhone). That is NOT a subsidy. A subsidy as mentioned here is really akin to a customer bribe where a (lame) company (ATT) TAKES A LOSS to attain future services from a new customer. In this case by means of revenue based on locked contracts, ETFs, etc. AT&T pays Apple ~ $450 when customer pays ATT $199 for iPhone making up for that loss later with forced services. Apple can charge anything above ~$180 (if not less now) and MAKE PURE PROFIT (from software/services/itunes/etc.). However Apple saw a HUGE $$$$ opportunity for extra revenue. Apple has leveraged AT&Ts desperate, pathetic services in the USA (after purchasing the clusterfudge that was cingular) into getting $400-500 cash for each $180 iPhone. Again Verizon was said to have offered no more than $300 when negotiating iPhone so Apple played ATT for an extra $150-200 (if not more) per customer buying an iPhone. Even the full-cost ATT phone could cost ATT more (to apple) than it collects from customers. |
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Verizon keeps voice and data on separate carriers. Therefore an overload of 3G data users would simply slow everyone down. On ATT, an overload of 3G users can (and does) cause dropped voice calls. In addition, Verizon designed their cell topography for CDMA from the start. ATT started with the simpler TDMA based GSM, and has had to add WCDMA radios to get 3G, but their cell towers aren't situated for it. Last edited by kdarling; 01-27-2010 at 10:31 PM. |
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That article was posted in December of last year. And there were several similiar articles mid-last year too.
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