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Wal-Mart to Sell $99 4GB iPhone?
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They changed it last July, it sparked a lot of interesting reactions in the design community.
Fake. And even if not, I'm with the others on the Wallyworld boycott bandwagon. What would Apple let the same evil whiny large devoid-of-all-soul company sell a device that, a scant couple years ago, tried to strongarm Apple out of digital downloads... and look who won that battle?
Obviously, things have changed a bit since the 80s lol. This is where im torn with this. On one hand its good and all, I mean i shop at Walmart every now and then (as im sure a lot of us do), I have an iPhone and it would make the iPhone available to more people. But then its like "Apple iPhone? Apple's prestigious smart phone that was $600 not too long ago is now $100 at Walmart?" It is definitely the first step of the way of the Razr, and while thats all well and good for Apple, selling more iPhones, it will deter people who bought iPhones and Apple products for that matter, for a little exclusivity. And i know the two Walmarts in my area have frequent stabbings in the parking lots, which, last time i checked, was not exactly Apple's target demographic
Tito, your rant is true for computers, but not for the iPod Touch & iPhone.
iPod Touch and iPhone do use a form of RAM for storage. iPod "Classic" uses hard drive storage in the traditional sense.
I actually tend to believe it's legit..
And the logo on the "questionable" training doc is Walmart's new logo.. it's even on their website.
Thank you for being another self-parody of Apple fans. "OMG, it's too cheap, now too many people can afford, which means I won't feel better than everyone else!"
Are you freaking kidding me? It's not like the homeless will be buying them.
[Post written on a Mac Mini while listening to an 80 GB iPod]
I'm surprised that people are still complaining about this. Since the dawn of time (ok maybe more like for the past 50 years) evil greedy companies have advertised hard drive space as 1000KB=1MB even though it's 1024. Yes, it's a pain but at least we can be thankful that every company uses this method so we're all getting screwed equally
Well technically it's 1000. Yes, we all know binary is 1024, but when a hard drive says 8GB it's 1000, it would need to say 8GiB to mean 1024.
Ki = Kilo Binary (1024 bytes)
k = Kilo (1000 bytes)
Here's a whole thing I wrote up when discussing my iPhone 3g speed test site with the developer of the popular testmyiphone site.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/6167013/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbit/s#.27k.27_vs_.27Ki.27
You forget how stupid most consumers are when it comes to money. Most cell phone users still think they have "free minutes". I'm sure there are many thousands of people who would buy an iPhone but they just can't seem to ever have $200 all at once. Cutting the down payment in half has the effect of more than doubling the potential market To bad these same people will be signing up for a $2,000 contract
I just can't see the average Wallyworld employee sorting out the details of activating phones, doing a credit check in store, etc. Unless they plan on bringing in at&t employees for a "store within a store" concept...
on who? Apple? Our favorite fruit company already sells iPods and accessories at walmart. The iPhone is not a "luxury" item anymore; people here glow over the latest iPhone commercial—which is targeted to the everyman—but dont want the everyman to actually buy it?
Yep....
I still use my 8GB rev. 1 iPhone I bought as a refurb, pretty shortly after they first came out. Ever since I've had it, I don't think I've used more than between 4-5GB of the storage space in it.
I've got 5 screens full of apps installed on it, and they don't take up nearly 4GB. I don't even try to put videos or movies on it, and don't see why you would, really? If I want to watch a movie, I'll do it on a device with a larger screen, thanks. It takes none of my iPhone storage space to watch streaming videos from YouTube and the like.
As for music? I tend to just copy several albums of music on it at a given time. I don't use it as an MP3 player that often. I don't want to run down the battery doing that, when I need it as a phone (and want to check my mail, read news online, etc.) during the day. The last time I listened to music with it was during part of a plane flight, and I just pre-loaded a few things on it in advance, that I knew I'd want to hear on the plane.
I think plenty of folks will get lots of use out of a 4GB iPhone.
I still use my 8GB rev. 1 iPhone I bought as a refurb, pretty shortly after they first came out. Ever since I've had it, I don't think I've used more than between 4-5GB of the storage space in it.
I've got 5 screens full of apps installed on it, and they don't take up nearly 4GB. I don't even try to put videos or movies on it, and don't see why you would, really? If I want to watch a movie, I'll do it on a device with a larger screen, thanks. It takes none of my iPhone storage space to watch streaming videos from YouTube and the like.
As for music? I tend to just copy several albums of music on it at a given time. I don't use it as an MP3 player that often. I don't want to run down the battery doing that, when I need it as a phone (and want to check my mail, read news online, etc.) during the day. The last time I listened to music with it was during part of a plane flight, and I just pre-loaded a few things on it in advance, that I knew I'd want to hear on the plane.
I think plenty of folks will get lots of use out of a 4GB iPhone.
seriously you are more likely to have something bad happen to you at a WalMart than most any store.
check these stats out
http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1002864
Lol, your welcome. I dont have a problem with it but i know some people who buy Apple products will. And look at the razr now, who has them? I know i dont want the iPhone to go down that path
Forgive my hijacking of the thread... but yet ANOTHER self-parody of Apple fans. Stop making us all look like elitist snobs, please.
Why not? Why do you care who owns an iPhone? If you like it, buy it and be happy with it. If not, then don't. Other people purchasing the iPhone has no effect on your experience. If you see a stinking cell phone as part of your identity, I'm not sure what to tell you.
Yes, I have 113 (appstore) apps on my 3G
14.64 GB Capacity
12.97 GB Free
215.7 MB Audio
117.5 MB Video
40 MB Photos
1.04 GB Apps
272.MB Other *
* The other is some iphone programs that I am testing-- I can download and consume large content with a small app.
There are many many people out there who really don't need any space on their iPhone. They put no music on there and most of the space is always free.
Wal-Mart and Apple teaming up to do this is very smart. Wal-Mart won't be any worse at selling these then your average Best Buy or ATT store. All the employees at all those stores know next to nothing so I don't know the difference.
jon
Wal-Mart and Apple teaming up to do this is very smart. Wal-Mart won't be any worse at selling these then your average Best Buy or ATT store. All the employees at all those stores know next to nothing so I don't know the difference.
jon
*walmart will be selling iphones this DEC. we start taking orders this DEC 15 at some of our stores. however i currently don't know the price of the iphone or the size of flash being installed in them.
*walmart has software that does all the work far as credit check, activating, and selling phones. all a employee must do is fill in your info and click a few buttons.
*humans in general are a bit stupid acting sometimes or most of the time depending, lol. i'm sure like other retailers walmart got some bad employees! a lot of the bad employees are just their way of dealing with shoppers. i'd say a good chunk of shoppers i've delt with at walmart are disturbing in behavior and are no better than the folks that are locked up behind bars.
now for a recap... walmart will be selling iphones. get use to the idea! we all at walmart knew this was coming for a long time
and boy do i feel bad for the folks that got to sell them."Originally Posted by RTiii320
An iPhone at Wal-Mart degrades the overall appeal of it. To me at least."
guess what RTiii320, i work at walmart and own a mac mini, macbook, 24'' imac, two ipods, and soon a iphone 3g. hopefully i don't degrade your overall appeal too much.
So you're averaging around 11mb/per app. Not bad.
why do you need 113 apps? you'd rather have them than not?