$100 Price Drop on iPhone and iPod Touch?

[a104375]

i really hope that they do drop the prices because people who bought recently might get a store credit

 

[Rhinestorm]

Doesn't Apple like make an $80 profit from every iphone sold?

 

[tonyshucraft]

Im probaly going to sell my 16GB touch on eBay when these "price drops" happen and then get myself a nice shiny 32GB touch.

do it before, you'll get more money. Then once you get the 32 gig, you will have a little more benefit.

 

[mathiasparks]

what will happen?

I believe that around the month of June (the iPhones 1 year anniversary), Apple will discontinue the 8GB iPhone, and make a 16GB 3G for $399 and a 32GB 3G for $499. If the touch already has 32GB's in it then i'm sure the phone will too.

And Apple won't sell anymore standard edge phones.

Just a hypothesis...

 

[chickenninja]

if they just gave them away for free, macs would be #1 in market share by next year

 

[Daphtdazz]

Three, please.

I like your thinking, chickenninja...

Apple would be sensible to keep updating the touch and iPhone as quickly as they can. Especially with something as basic as storage, and considering that flash storage seems to be popular at the moment and the tech is increasing pretty dramatically all the time: Apple need to keep the edge in that respect.

With such a fantastic interface and utility the only thing stopping someone like me from buying one is the fact that my current HDD iPod holds more. When that's no longer an issue then there'll be nothing holding me back.

 

[chillywilly]

if they just gave them away for free, macs would be #1 in market share by next year

How about a free 1Gb shuffle with each iPod touch or iPhone purchase?

 

[D-Love]

I was reading a story on the disassembly of the iPhone and when they took out the sim card it had a 3g logo on it...and the iphone was a 8 gb model. What would be the deal with that?

 

[chillywilly]

I was reading a story on the disassembly of the iPhone and when they took out the sim card it had a 3g logo on it...and the iphone was a 8 gb model. What would be the deal with that?

Pretty much every SIM for AT&T is 3G ready.

 

[D-Love]

Pretty much every SIM for AT&T is 3G ready.

so the phone is already compatible with the network?

 

[diamond.g]

so the phone is already compatible with the network?

No, just the SIM.

 

[chillywilly]

No, just the SIM.

Diamond is correct. I should have clarified further. All SIMs are 3G-ready and work in phones that have 3G modems (ie. HSDPA) and phones that don't have 3G modems (ie. compatible with GPRS or EDGE network)

 

[TravisReynolds]

I don't think they should drop the 8GB. Not everybody is going to need the 16GB. I'm sure a lot of business people won't use it for music and video and such

 

[chillywilly]

I don't think they should drop the 8GB. Not everybody is going to need the 16GB. I'm sure a lot of business people won't use it for music and video and such

True, but if they can drop the price to $299 for a 16gb model, even if someone doesn't use all that space, the value of the iPod touch would be worth having.