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iPhone No Longer Available in UK

Looks like the article needs a quick update then. iPhone now available again 16GB from O2.

It would be interesting to find out what is actually happening...
 
BongoBanger said:
The wall of ignorance has nothing to do with the exchange rate which is indeed a bogus excuse. It's the rest of your post that's the kicker mainly because you completely ignore the differences between the US and European phone markets.
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I am gonna' regret this, but...

Guys! It doesn't have anything to do with exchange rates or even salaries. It is perceived value to you at a price.

If you find a match, you buy!

if, you don't, you look for a better price!!

Lacking a price that matches your perceived value, you don't buy!

Simple! What does it matter what my (or anyone else's) perceived value/price is... yours is the only one that counts!
 
cal6n said:
Don't bother mate! :)

There's a few of us Brits have been trying to explain the situation to our transatlantic chums since the iPhone was first announced. I genuinely don't mean to insult anyone but, with the best will in the world, they just don't get it. Many of the American posters on this forum (and many others) don't get it. Apple's management team certainly don't get it and they're really switched-on in other respects. It's like they understand all of the actual words we use, but they don't understand how it translates into consumer behaviour on the high street. It must be some sort of cross-cultural blind-spot.
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I think most people get the difference we just don't care about people complaining about paying a lot for a phone. It's somewhat of a mirror of what used to exist between the gas prices of US the Europe. Europe taxes the living hell out of it and for quite a while it was 2-3 times more expensive so when Americans complained about $1.50 gas Europeans laughed at them and told them tough $h!t they pay 2-3 times as much.

So - it's the same situation - I think it was just a few weeks ago there was talk of gas prices here on the forum and a lot of people completely ignored the American culture and it's relation to driving. So, yes, the shoe does fit on the other foot.

dicklacara said:
I am gonna' regret this, but...

Guys! It doesn't have anything to do with exchange rates or even salaries. It is perceived value to you at a price.

If you find a match, you buy!

if, you don't, you look for a better price!!

Lacking a price that matches your perceived value, you don't buy!

Simple! What does it matter what my (or anyone else's) perceived value/price is... yours is the only one that counts!
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I'll second ya on that one. I mean, if you don't care about 1080i vs 1080p then all you're going to see is a decent price vs an outrageous price even tho the cost of the 1080p might be below average for a TV of that type.
 
Santa Rosa said:
At last someone that understands you don't get something for nothing in this life. Right on man. Am entirely with you and Im gonna go and get the 3G iPhone when it comes out, no matter what it costs, thats the price of it and thats it.

The number of times I have read on this forum people complaining because its too expensive is ridiculous. If you cant afford it you aint getting it. End of story.

Thank you mr1970 for your refreshing post.
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Apple definatly likes people like you...:rolleyes:
 
with news like that one people are becoming hangry so... willing to buy the newest version whenever is available
 
Engadget - get your facts straight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

iPhone 16GB STILL available on the O2 website.

Talk about drumming up stories based on incorrect facts.
 
ascender said:
Surely its very strange though given how popular the iPhone has been since the price drop by O2. There's still forums on lots of non-Apple sites with people talking about buying an iPhone and where to find one. You'd have thought they'd request more stock from Apple and make the most of the demand?

Can a new iPhone really be imminent?
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Apple likely has their factories working overtime cranking out 3G iPhones. It would be costly to continue to produce a few thousand more edge iPhones as the factories space would be better producing the 3G iPhone since it will be sold at full price and producing more edge iPhones may end up not being sold.

There was a rumor about May 12 as the release or announcement of the 3G iPhone, but most other rumors contradict the May 12 rumor.

Probably will be announced on May 12 to ship on or around June 15 or 27 which matches fairly well with the rest of the rumors and the Letter from AT&T canceling vacations.
 
cal6n said:
Don't bother mate! :)

There's a few of us Brits have been trying to explain the situation to our transatlantic chums since the iPhone was first announced. I genuinely don't mean to insult anyone but, with the best will in the world, they just don't get it. Many of the American posters on this forum (and many others) don't get it. Apple's management team certainly don't get it and they're really switched-on in other respects. It's like they understand all of the actual words we use, but they don't understand how it translates into consumer behaviour on the high street. It must be some sort of cross-cultural blind-spot.
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Please don't generalize. And once the 3G iPhone is released, I think we'll all see that Apple's 'management team' gets it just fine, even with the handicap of being American...
 
EagerDragon said:
Probably will be announced on May 12 to ship on or around June 15 or 27 which matches fairly well with the rest of the rumors and the Letter from AT&T canceling vacations.
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Disagree about the announcement of May 12. Cant see that because of WWDC being around the corner. I would guess thats the stage they will be using to announce it, yes it is hardware, but the new software and the apps made with the SDK will be running on it. Seems to all fit into place to me.

Dr.Gargoyle said:
If you have a dire need to compensate for some short comings, have the courtesy to do so in somewhat intelligent manner.
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Dude, seriously take a joke, unlike that really bad one that is your signature.
 
Nubben said:
Engadget - get your facts straight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

iPhone 16GB STILL available on the O2 website.

Talk about drumming up stories based on incorrect facts.
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When the story broke, there were no iPhones available from the O2 website, with the iPhone page saying the iPhone was no longer available.

The 16GB only reappeared on their site this afternoon, so at the time Engadget and MacRumors reported the story, it was true.
 
Santa Rosa said:
Disagree about the announcement of May 12. Cant see that because of WWDC being around the corner. I would guess thats the stage they will be using to announce it, yes it is hardware, but the new software and the apps made with the SDK will be running on it. Seems to all fit into place to me.



Dude, seriously take a joke, unlike that really bad one that is your signature.
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Well we don't have to agree, that is fine.

I can't find it but there was also some rumors about a "New non-iPhone" device being announced at WWDC. I don't think people think this one is real.

BTW where is Buchanan?
 
stephenli said:
i suppose this is the first time for such kind of announcement on Apple products. Isn't it better to let users know for a new product is coming within a month?! Or, isn't it better to lower the price for the current lineup of iPhone?
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No, actually Apple ran out of G5-based iMacs once. In fact, long-time posters here will remember the apology on Apple's store web site:

Apple said:
We planned to have our next generation iMac ready by the time the inventory of current iMacs runs out in the next few weeks, but our planning was obviously less than perfect.

We apologize for any inconvenience to our customers.
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nick9191 said:
They should do it as £299 pay as you go, or £99 + 12 month contract at £35 p/m.
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Why not £99 pay as you go and £0.99 + 12 month contract at £29 p/m, OR even they pay you £299 if you buy it ?

The whole point that I got from the iPhone was that apple wanted to sell it just like any other electronic, and not like a subsidized phone, and get peoples mentality away from "you should give me a free phone, no matter how good it is". Which may suck for us having to pay for it, but it turns phones into viable commodities and not giveaways.
 
djellison said:
I disagree - and your post explains why. This is MAC rumors. Not Apple rumors. But realistically, Apple themselves seem to have forgone any reasonable development to the computer products for the iPhone - and in the long term, I think that will be to their detriment. One need only look at the delay to 10.5 because of a damn cell phone - a cell phone which still lags behind its rivals massively in many areas.
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Doug, cut the crap. You don't even have to look at the ABOUT page of this site to know what its about ... check out the top of the home page to see "Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About". You are in need of attention or you're super-sick of seeing iPhone threads on this site and everywhere else.

Well, just don't read 'em if that's how you feel. But why aggravate the rest of us with a goofy rant?
 
"Apple has one of the BEST Global Supply Chain and Distribution networks in ANY industry. Therefore I feel the release of the new iPhone is imminent. They will use WWDC to highlight iPhone 2.0 and SDK Apps......"

B.S... at least for European customers...

It should NOT take nearly two weeks to ship a damn IMAC from wherever it is being made and then it sits in Germany for several days twisting its fingers. Americans may be used to next day delivery or expedited. In Europe their idea of fast delivery is "regular" courier akin to ground service.
 
djellison said:
I disagree - and your post explains why. This is MAC rumors. Not Apple rumors. But realistically, Apple themselves seem to have forgone any reasonable development to the computer products for the iPhone - and in the long term, I think that will be to their detriment. One need only look at the delay to 10.5 because of a damn cell phone - a cell phone which still lags behind its rivals massively in many areas.

Doug
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First, the iPhone is run on an altered version of Mac OSX, so it is a mac product, a very tiny mac product.

Second, you just come off as jealous... and alittle whinny: "a damn cell phone - a cell phone which still lags behind its rivals massively in many areas"

Third, I think, and I am sure the record number of macs being sold agrees with me, that Apple is coming out with the BEST macs ever right now. So having "forgone any reasonable development to the computer products" makes no sense... Sure Leopard was delayed alittle, but it is a great release.
 
djellison said:
For the phone to really take off, the 3G version must be available across multiple carriers, on both pay monthly, and pay as you go.

But I, like a lot of people, will not pay £250+ for a phone, AND £35+ a month for a contract I simply don't need.

Doug
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I guess you will never get an iPhone then.
 
Santa Rosa said:
Disagree about the announcement of May 12. Cant see that because of WWDC being around the corner. I would guess thats the stage they will be using to announce it, yes it is hardware, but the new software and the apps made with the SDK will be running on it. Seems to all fit into place to me.
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...but, what if they want to announce something bigger at WWDC?

I know nothing, except after watching Apple for 30 years to expect the unexpected!
 
not true

this is not true you can still buy the 16GB iphone from the o2 uk stores and online stores so what they are saying is not true so not listen to them coz they tell crap sometimes and make crap up like this it is the 8GB iphone that is sold out coz 02 where selling it for £169 not he £269 so you cant get that one till the 3G iphone comes out at WWDC this june well mid June
 
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