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iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Mini Cost $30 Extra for T-Mobile, Sprint, or SIM-Free Models [Updated]
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No one does, not even mobile operators.
Verizon does not have SIM cards.
I guess you're not with VZW? they do (try to) charge you, you'll have to ask for waiving it
Knowing T-Mobile, they'll do a much better offer than $30. I ain't giving up Tmobile for $30.
I tried to do that last year and Apple wouldn't let me. They made me activate the new SIM
hmm, I wonder what that little thing is in my 11promax on VZW? in that little tray on the right hand side ...
It's called corporate partnering, or in some circles, selling out.
Whatever you call it, it's no different that the original iPhone/AT&T deal oh so many years ago. I remember being a VZW customer for years and not being able to get an iPhone because of AT&T exclusivity.
Apparently T-Mobile/Sprint didn't want to play Apple's reindeer games, and so be it. That's their right to do so in the marketplace, same as VZW did with AT&T back in the day, and they regretted it.
T-Mobile is doomed anyway (this is satire, so take it for what it's worth). Poisoned by the malignancy that is the former Nextel. Every corporate entity that merged with or acquired a current or former Nextel partner ended up doomed.
It's like when they open the Ark in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Everyone who keeps their eyes open melts.
The melters are anything that had anything to do with Nextel.....
Verizon has had SIM cards since 2010. LTE is based on GSM therefore requires a SIM card wether physical or eSIM
Verizon does have SIM cards. All carriers do now. Verizon and Sprint did not have them when they were CDMA but not that they run on LTE, all carriers have SIM's
???
Verizon has had SIMs for years. I've purchased my last few iPhone models outright and simply swapped my SIM into them. No activation fee.
Usually, buying the sim-free version was the only way to get around the $30 “upgrade/activation fee” carriers would charge.
Apple upping the price by $30 on the sim free version, seems to me is their way of pocketing that money you were going to pay your carrier anyways for that upgrade fee.
Slimy, if so.
Apple upping the price by $30 on the sim free version, seems to me is their way of pocketing that money you were going to pay your carrier anyways for that upgrade fee.
Slimy, if so.
The issue is I'm on the iPhone Upgrade Program, which Im thinking of coming off of this year.
Don’t like their bait and switch game at all. Just gonna keep my 11 and hit em where it hurts 🤦🏽♂️
If these were carrier subsidized, that would make some sense... but positioning it as a markup rather than a discount is foolish. Apple's greed is on full display this year with their environmental segment, a cheap attempt to gaslight loyal Apple defenders while gouging consumers on necessary items to reduce their shipping, packaging, and accessory costs.
No thank you Apple.
Let’s charge extra as the pandemic is going to kill our customers anyway. Whatta strategy 🙌🏼
We've been teleported back to the bad old days of subsidized phones...
This is idiotic. Macrumors, and other outlets, should state the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini start at $729 and $829 whenever prices are mentioned.
ok, that makes sense, well it still does not make sense that any carrier charges you an activation fee but that is a different topic ...
So the regular size iPhone 12 is starting at $80 more than the regular iPhone 11 last year.
Take the charger and the headphones out and charge an additional $30.. only Apple..