Holy crap in a pita. Some of you are unable to see beyond your own wallet.
Phone. WAS subsidized. ISN'T any longer.
The PHONE, which is being introduced to the ENTIRE WORLD as CHEAPER, IS.
If you live in the US, you are roped into playing AT&Ts game, which does not send money back to Apple for your phone. AT&T has not only cut off Apple from its subsidy of ten of your data dollars a month, but they're charging you another ten on top of that, for a grand total of $30 a month in data, which they keep 100% of. Got it?
Again, the iphone is not subsidized by the money you pay AT&T any longer. It's over.
Here's another way to say it. Two things happened. One, the phone got cheaper. 2. The service got more expensive. If you're an american, and you're crabbing about how the service is going to cost more, you're crabbing about the service costing more, not the phone. This is 100% down to AT&T, now that Apples period of having their way is over.
If you lived in such a place as to be on the O2 network instead of AT&T, you'd have a subsidized iPhone. It would be free up front, and you'd pay that back in subsidies. Apple is only getting $200 or $300 respectively for that phone either way. Not more. Your service provider is taking the rest of your money.
Comprende now? I don't know how many more times or ways it can be said. Just because more money leaves your wallet does not mean Apple is the culprit. Crab to AT&T. Apple has said themselves they're not exactly in love with their particular provider here in the states either. When Jobs was up there pitching it, he wasn't just talking to the Americans. There are 16 other countries that get that phone. He's not going to get into which country charges more for their service and which charge less. It was about the hardware and software, which is cheaper. You're on your own with the service, unfortunately for us. Still, it's no worse than any other phone...
Phone. WAS subsidized. ISN'T any longer.
The PHONE, which is being introduced to the ENTIRE WORLD as CHEAPER, IS.
If you live in the US, you are roped into playing AT&Ts game, which does not send money back to Apple for your phone. AT&T has not only cut off Apple from its subsidy of ten of your data dollars a month, but they're charging you another ten on top of that, for a grand total of $30 a month in data, which they keep 100% of. Got it?
Again, the iphone is not subsidized by the money you pay AT&T any longer. It's over.
Here's another way to say it. Two things happened. One, the phone got cheaper. 2. The service got more expensive. If you're an american, and you're crabbing about how the service is going to cost more, you're crabbing about the service costing more, not the phone. This is 100% down to AT&T, now that Apples period of having their way is over.
If you lived in such a place as to be on the O2 network instead of AT&T, you'd have a subsidized iPhone. It would be free up front, and you'd pay that back in subsidies. Apple is only getting $200 or $300 respectively for that phone either way. Not more. Your service provider is taking the rest of your money.
Comprende now? I don't know how many more times or ways it can be said. Just because more money leaves your wallet does not mean Apple is the culprit. Crab to AT&T. Apple has said themselves they're not exactly in love with their particular provider here in the states either. When Jobs was up there pitching it, he wasn't just talking to the Americans. There are 16 other countries that get that phone. He's not going to get into which country charges more for their service and which charge less. It was about the hardware and software, which is cheaper. You're on your own with the service, unfortunately for us. Still, it's no worse than any other phone...