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iSamurai

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My friend just told me that he posted whole thing this under my username on my computer. whoops, I didn't log off. I only realised this now.

Sorry for the confusion guys, can someone delete this thread. Thanks.
 
I'm not familiar with the cell phone market in Europe, but in North America an unlocked counterpart of almost all phones can run for double the price or more compared to a locked and subsidized version from the carrier.
 
Quite a dumb analysis considering almost every cell phone sold in this country is about $300 more expensive if you don't sign a 2-year contract with a carrier. In other words, why pay $300 for X cell phone when you can get it free with a 2-year contract with X service provider?

Nobody is forcing you to buy either. If you don't want to pay whatever, don't buy the damn phone. If people don't buy it at a certain price, it will get cut. If they keep selling out at $400 and $500, well, why would any sane company cut prices? Gee, Apple wants to make money. How GREEDY of a for-profit company!
 
Don't you think the future launch of 3G iPhones in some countries according to this report, just shows how badly Apple wants money?


Wait.

Stop right there.

You mean, Apple... a corporation...

is in the business of making money?

WHAT!? ALERT THE PRESSES!
 
Don't you think the future launch of 3G iPhones in some countries according to this report, just shows how badly Apple wants money?.


Well, judging companies off rumors is often a bad idea, but it shows that Apple wants to do well as a company, as well as offer uses what they want(if they really weren't into locking the devices, they wouldn't seem them in place that force them to unlock the device)

Like previously where T-Mobile was temporarily selling unlocked iPhones at a ridiculous price, what Orange is also doing, selling the phones more than double the price.

Because Apple wanted the locked model to seem like a good idea, plus unlocked phones are always pricy as hell

Well, most of the customers aren't that rich, so they'll choose the cheaper option limited to a single carrier. This basically forces the customers to stick to Orange, for example.

No, it does not. At all. Its force cheap people to cut costs, and lose some extra things. Unlocked phones cost more, it how companies work. Cheap locked devices are paid for inpart by the carrier. That why they are cheap(and you have to pay them month, so they make that money, plus more, back)

If Apple sells the iPhone at 750 Euros they'll make up quite a portion of that monthly billing, and while they get the purchased money from day one means that they gain interest on that sum over, let's say, a two year period equivalent to a standard contract. You'll get quite an amount of interest for you and I per se, but for Apple, it's "strength in big numbers".
No. It isn't an evil plan, its how unlocked phones work. Pay more upfront, get more control

To a local resident who stays in that particular country won't seem much because most of them would not use even get the most of the basic plan $60 x 24 months or £35 x 18 months, so in the end they'll pay about the same sum.
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Stop make assumptions about people, and how they will use their plan/where they will buy their phones. You have no proof either way


So the higher priced but unlocked iPhones may benefit prepaid (pay as you go) local users, but for the rest, it doesn't seem to be such a good deal.
Then buy a locked device. Some one who wants to be able to leave a company as they please, can buy a unlocked one.


All and all, I don't think this method of selling unlocked iPhones at a much higher price for anyone is beneficial... apart from Apple. I've been really wanting an offically unlocked iPhone, but hey, I guess I'll have to stick with the guys on the other side of the internet.
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So you want an unlocked iPhone, for a lock iPhone price? Who doesn't, but anyone who knows how the market works, knows that isn't happening. Also you said earlier you're sticking with one carrier, so why care?



I'm sorry, but even with your disclaimer at the end, this is a terrible thread.
All you did was complain, after you got more choice. Deal with it!
 
Yes, the Internet is ruined by people who complain when they don't get a free lunch. People expecting about 300 new features on the second-generation iPhone are going to be shocked when it either doesn't have most or costs more for stuff like GPS.
 
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