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Apple Announces Colorful New iPhone 5c, Starting at $99 on Two-Year Contract

Uproar all over the web about the price. Chance of Apple changing the price?

PS. Who is signing phone contracts in 2013? Handset + £15/month unlimited calls/texts/data. No minimum term, no contract. That is what you do now. Don't sign anything.
 
I'm not one for throwing a tantrum and chucking my toys out of the pram. BUT I will certainly have a look at an android now just to see how it might work for me (not saying I will jump but I've never considered android before due to iTunes Match etc)
 
This is a crazy price for a crazy looking phone. And not crazy good either.

The only people who will buy this over the 5S, are going to really like bright colours...., a lot..
 

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It's basically an uglier iPhone 5. They would have been better off just dropping the price of the iPhone 5.
 
5C pricing if over $350 is a FAIL, when you still have the iPhone 4S,5,5S, ( buy the 5 used ), not to mention a Nexus 4 device that is $199

stubborn company, the light at the end of the tunnel is a train coming for Apple
 
numlock said:
wonder if they will feel pressured to do a price reduction like they did in 2007 or the 5c might be very shortlived.

$100 isnt the biggest amount in the world. its the illusion that they are giving you a choice
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No I might suggest it is giving your vendors or retailers options in how they market the phone. Expect to see promotions and discounts around the Christmas shopping season and other hot shopping times of the year. Remember it is only a list price.
 
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wwinter86 said:
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?
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Is that the price WITH a 2 years contract?????
 
Tmelon said:
It's basically an uglier iPhone 5. They would have been better off just dropping the price of the iPhone 5.
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Maybe after a year the iPhone 5 is still too expensive to make. The aluminum unibody must still be too hard to engineer. Because if Apple could make the same margins with the iPhone 5 being $100 cheaper then you are exactly right. Just sell brightly colored cases.
 
Wow. Apple failed with the pricing. Maybe other countries will like it but it'll be a failure in the American market.
 
wizard said:
No I might suggest it is giving your vendors or retailers options in how they market the phone. Expect to see promotions and discounts around the Christmas shopping season and other hot shopping times of the year. Remember it is only a list price.
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List price for new Apple products rarely drops past list price very quickly. I think that is part of the reason for dropping the 5. They can call this a new product and keep the margins crazy high.
 
Small White Car said:
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.
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Finally logic prevails in the thread! Exactly what I'm thinking.
 
Obviously, over the life of the contract, there is effectively no price difference between between the two, and given the higher obvious salvage value of the 5S, it may very well be the 5C is MORE expensive.

So...given the pastel colors of iOS 7 and the the new plastic pastel phones, Apple is worried about the teenage female demographic. Seriously. The 5C is not about price.
 
Off contract price is ridiculous. Glad I moved to the Nexus 4 a few months ago. I won't consider another iPhone until I can get one for $399 off contract, at most. Apple already lost me as an iPhone customer, and if they keep this up, they will never get me back. They just don't offer that much extra value to justify the extra cost.
 
Kensai said:
Jee, has anyone else noticed how ugly the "hon" letters appear in the back of the 5C with the cases? It is not even centered. Definitely the case was a last moment afterthought...

With Jobs dead, all attention to the slightest detail is weaning. :(
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Possibly the ugliest thing Apple ever designed?

Pure laziness, almost unbelievable.

Even the case is cheap to make, cut out load of holes :eek:
 
Battlefield Fan said:
Wow. Apple failed with the pricing. Maybe other countries will like it but it'll be a failure in the American market.
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How other countries may like it if americans dont do...just to remind, there are very few countries if any where apple products are cheaper than in US:D here in Europe, 5c is dead product. for its price you can get any, ANY top android phone
 
slu said:
Off contract price is ridiculous. Glad I moved to the Nexus 4 a few months ago. I won't consider another iPhone until I can get one for $399 off contract, at most. Apple already lost me as an iPhone customer, and if they keep this up, they will never get me back. They just don't offer that much extra value to justify the extra cost.
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switched when the Nexus 4 came out, and looking forward to the Nexus 5, awesome pricing and awesome features, this is just plain robbery, why would you go for the 5C when you get a 5S for $100 more....... plain stupid
 
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