because his argument was that in case your phone freezes up you can't pull the battery. Have you every felt like you had to pull your iPhone battery?
Actually, last time my wife accidentally dropped her cell phone into water, I was happy to be able to nearly instantly get the battery out
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Re: cost. Carriers pay about 40% more on average for an iPhone than for other smartphones.
E.g. A carrier has to pay Apple an average of $640 a phone (except the 3GS, around $350), whereas other top smartphones cost the carrier between $450 to $550 wholesale. (Lesser smartphones drop down to $300 or less, some down to $125 cost.)
That's a huge incentive to sell other phones, and it's why many analysts are predicting that carriers will bend over backwards to push Android and Windows phones... and begin to push back at Apple's prices.
It's a interesting standoff. On the one side, Apple is heavily dependent on subsidized sales, and their phone is nothing without the carriers. On the other, carriers want the customer base that wants iPhones.