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Apple Announces iPhone 3G

That £30 O2 tariff is a complete joke. I can't believe the jump between £30 and £35...

But it's a pretty good deal all the same (at £35).

I think this is what British consumers were waiting for. I really think Apple will have trouble filling all the orders in this country for a long while!
 
ziggyonice said:
anybody else wonder why it was necessary for them to shut down the apple store the other week to film for the commercial?

the background (genius bar, leopard laptops) is hardly noticable. i guess the little things really do count!
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because when you are filming a commercial, let alone one with an unreleased product you really don't want all sorts of people getting in the way.. seems like common sense to close the store for this! :rolleyes:
 
hiimamac said:
So how is APPLE going to deal with this? If it's $200.00 with activation, are we still going to pay full price (TAX) then get a credit if you purchase anywhere other than AT&T store?

Or is Apple going to have activation center's in their stores? Sort of confusing.
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Here's what I think.

Let's imagine that retail price for this new iPhone (without contract) is $399. -- If the phone is subsidized, which we're not sure is true or not.
With the contract, that deducts $200 from the cost, bringing the total to $199.
So at the point of sale (which is required to be at an AT&T or Apple retail store), they'll have to activate it in store.
If it isn't activated in store, they'll probably charge you full retail ($399), and then during iTunes activation, you'll recieve a $200 credit.

My guess is though that activations will have to be done in stores, since that's the only place to purchase them (according to Apple.com).
 
so hang on a minute... the price of the iphone in the UK is actually CHEAPER* than the US... we're onto a winner here...




* when taking the more expensive tarrifs starting at $90 per month (£45)
 
TJ10 said:
If you look at what comes in the box with the 3g iPhone- there is no dock included? I think thats dumb:mad:, I used my original iPhone dock everyday.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone?mco=MTE2NTQ
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This is one of the many reasons I believe the $199 and $299 prices are NOT subsidized. Apple cut a few costs, like skipping the dock, using more plastics, and using some of the same components (which are cheaper now than they were a year ago) as the original iPhone.
 
what do you think about the new iPhone design?

It seems to me Apple is changing it's design... the edge of the iPhone and Macbook Air both have a curve on the edge and they look pretty sharp, it's the sort of change in style which Chris Bangle gave BMW after the 2002 7 series. What do you think? have you sensed the change and do you like it or not?

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Except for GPS integration and firmware enhancements (not exclusive to iPhone 3G, thank God) iPhone 3G appears no better than its predecessor.

And of course, we all want to have it, and we did hope it would become more affordable (didn't we), but objectively I see little reason to rejoice at Apple's tendency to get away with lowering prices of the iPhone (or any other of Apple) rather than expanding its storage, adding horizontal keyboard orientation to the device, enhancing its reliability and so on... And the oblique rear of the iphone 3G (although I do assume that with time the iphone will acquire a somewhat more respectable form, much like the iBook did - from its earliest iteration to MacBooks) and the new name of .Mac service - this all is obviously intended to attract masses, people of no distinction in taste.
Plainly speaking, I wouldn't like to see all rabble on the streets show off iPhones and Macs (and as a side effect - a huge quantity of Airport Express/Extreme stations, MacBook(s) Pro(s)/Air, iMacs and PowerMacs becoming perfectly unreliable - being produced in excessive quantities, with minimum quality control) - I prefer both reliability and moderate exclusivity that used to define Apple before Jobs' false epiphany of a couple of years ago.
I hope Apple does not become the second Microsoft: it appears that Apple's interests shift more or less in the wrong direction in the last couple of years... not a good sign.
 
i think it sucks all they did was stick on a GPS and 3G chip and change the battery. So they had to make it thicker i the middle. I think they could have done better.

I hate the colors by the way. way too 2006
 
love it! i always wonder how apple plans to improve upon the best design in the industry and still not make it look like any of the 'leaked' pictures or mockups people make, but they always do somehow. gotta love it.
 
lordgaino said:
$199 globally AFTER subsidy. Mark .

If you want to 'jailbreak' your phone - its not going to work since you will be forced into a monthly contract on purchase.

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How is this possible -? Are the Apple stores going to activate the phones for you? Or worse, are you going to pay full price then get a rebate? Of course, if that were true, you wouldn't be signing a contract, plus, if you can jail break, doesn't that mean the FULL PRICED phone is cheaper? $30 a month 2 years=$720
 
geerlingguy said:
This is one of the many reasons I believe the $199 and $299 prices are NOT subsidized. Apple cut a few costs, like skipping the dock, using more plastics, and using some of the same components (which are cheaper now than they were a year ago) as the original iPhone.
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The prices ARE subsidized, listen to the AT&T 3G Conference call from today, they explain the new business model and how they purchase the iPhones from Apple for a price and keep the profits from the sales which allows them to provide them at a subsidized prices to the consumer
 
Well well well...

Fantastic price -- SonyEricsson and Nokia will be holding crisis meetings all night.

Still... as someone who never had the opportunity to buy the 1st gen iPhone I'm a little miffed about the design changes. The metal back was beautiful, the plastic ehhh not so much -- and I'm sure Apple has stayed true to tradition and carefully selected a material that will scratch as soon as you look at it funny. Also the nice black rubber details on the bottom appear to have disappeared in favor of, well, nothing. Essentially it just looks like a morbidly obese iPod Touch now. Plain and unsophisticated.

And didn't the old iPhone come with a dock? This new one just has a crummy cable, like an iPod. The dock is an optional accessory.

Oh well, who am I kidding... I'm getting two 16 GB iPhones on July 11.

LeoNobilis said:
And the oblique rear of the iphone 3G (although I do assume that with time the iphone will acquire a somewhat more respectable form, much like the iBook did - from its earliest iteration to MacBooks) and the new name of .Mac service - this all is obviously intended to attract masses, people of no distinction in taste.
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Well, if you want to make an omelet... Apple can't have the cake and eat it. They can't pull off a massive increase in market share and remain some sort of Rolls-Royce for a snooty elite at the same time. In the end, Apple fans will benefit anyway. More sales to the masses means more money into R&D which means cooler products rolled out at a faster pace.

What they're doing right now is declare war on the entire handheld device market. Unless Nokia, Motorola and the others plan on cutting their prices in half overnight, the iPhone will put a considerable dent in their sales. If this succeeds, Apple will go from having one foot in the door to owning the house, and once they're in that position they can expand their iPhone product line with exclusive models for people with taste.
 
theres some crazy countries in there with the roll out!

wonder how it'll sell in some of the sub saharan countries in africa where theres alot of people struggling to even eat let alone buy an iphone!!!:confused:
 
TJ10 said:
If you look at what comes in the box with the 3g iPhone- there is no dock included? I think thats dumb:mad:, I used my original iPhone dock everyday.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone?mco=MTE2NTQ
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Same thing happened with the iPod. It's all to cut costs. My first ipod cost me over £300, for a 20gig one. Third-gen, before the click wheel came out... (god I feel like an old man!).

That came in a massive cube box with all sorts of cool cases, an in-line remote and a dock.

Then then click wheel came out at a lower price, but with none of that. To buy all the accessories separately cost more than the difference! But now I really like having a dock, and a case, and a remote... so I do it... they're not stupid, these people at :apple:!
 
brisweeney said:
theres some crazy countries in there with the roll out!

wonder how it'll sell in some of the sub saharan countries in africa where theres alot of people struggling to even eat let alone buy an iphone!!!:confused:
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Not everyone in Africa is poor. Just like the USA, there is always a gap between the rich and poor.
 
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