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Apple Announces Colorful New iPhone 5c, Starting at $99 on Two-Year Contract
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An Insult to British Customers
America gets the iPhone 5c for $99 (£63), we get it for £469 ($738). They have just made a lot of Brits their enemies now. Rip Off. This is an insult to Apple's British customers.
P.S Why would anyone pay £469 for the C when they can get the S for £549?
America gets the iPhone 5c for $99 (£63), we get it for £469 ($738). They have just made a lot of Brits their enemies now. Rip Off. This is an insult to Apple's British customers.
P.S Why would anyone pay £469 for the C when they can get the S for £549?
$100 less and it would've been a huge winner. 16 gb free with contract (drop the 4s) would've sold like hotcakes. This... This I don't get.
That is outside of a contract. If we buy it outside of contract the price is much higher then $99.
The big question is what they'll cost in China, the country they were designed for. If it's the same price, then Cook's an idiot and nobody will by this phone.
Priced right, and this thing would have sold like hotcakes. Apple have blown it with the pricing here.
Yet another disappointing Apple event.
I simply cannot believe the pricing. £469 for the 5C or £549 for the 5S here in the UK. Incredible.
You are comparing two completely different proposals. $99 involves a two year contract. $738 involves no contract at all.
I simply cannot believe the pricing. £469 for the 5C or £549 for the 5S here in the UK. Incredible.
You are comparing two completely different proposals. $99 involves a two year contract. $738 involves no contract at all.
No they don't.
They get it for $99 plus the cost of a two year contract. The UK price is for the unlocked contract free 5C and includes 20% VAT.
Why? Just because you don't like it?
I actually prefer the iPhone 5C design-wise to the iPhone 5/5S.
Same, and yeah maybe the blue isn't too bad but if I get one it'd be white.
16GB wouldn't be enough for me
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What I do like is they are selling it unlocked right off the bat. They have never done that before. But $550 is crazy. They usually sell the old phone for that price. In this case, it is the old phone but with cheaper materials. It's kind of a let down to me.
EXACTLY!
What the hell is this?
They kept the same price and lowered quality? That's their idea for a great new "entry-level" phone to conquer market-share? It's ridiculous and frustrating.
I still can't believe today's disappointment. The 5C is at least 150$ too expensive, the pricing difference between the different storage capacities is exaggerated, and the 5S should have been available from 32Gb to 128Gb.
Y'all don't get it.
Apple moved us from $1,400 Macbooks to $1,000 Macbook Airs.
People pointed to $300 PCs and said "why not that?" Well, because that's not what Apple's after and it's not where they'll ever go.
This is the same thing.
Who will buy this? Probably the same people that spent all this year buying the iPhone 4S and all last year buying the 4 and the previous year buying the 3GS. Apple sold a LOT of those "last year" phones. Some people think they're half of all iPhone sales. And now you're gonna tempt those same people withe a BRAND NEW candy design? Jeez, this thing is gonna break sales records.
You can pretend those people don't exist all you want, but Apple's not ignoring them.
It's not for me. It's not for you. It's not for hardly anyone here.
Never forget that none of that really matters.
Apple moved us from $1,400 Macbooks to $1,000 Macbook Airs.
People pointed to $300 PCs and said "why not that?" Well, because that's not what Apple's after and it's not where they'll ever go.
This is the same thing.
Who will buy this? Probably the same people that spent all this year buying the iPhone 4S and all last year buying the 4 and the previous year buying the 3GS. Apple sold a LOT of those "last year" phones. Some people think they're half of all iPhone sales. And now you're gonna tempt those same people withe a BRAND NEW candy design? Jeez, this thing is gonna break sales records.
You can pretend those people don't exist all you want, but Apple's not ignoring them.
It's not for me. It's not for you. It's not for hardly anyone here.
Never forget that none of that really matters.
sorry apple, 5c is simply robery on us - you take 1 year old phone, put it in the lower cost package and ask same price as you would for 5... and prices here in europe are ridiculous - ip4s with 8gigs costs 510 use - that is the price of middle class to top adroid models.. apple, seriously?
but 5s is state of art (pitty there is no igzo, i wont buy it because of that, waiting for ip6)
but 5s is state of art (pitty there is no igzo, i wont buy it because of that, waiting for ip6)