Comments on: $2000 for an iPhone?

By: Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:25:12 +0000

I have to say I agree with you, Kirk. The iPod analog to this iPhone would be an iPod that could only reproduce iTMS protected AAC files once you activated with iTMS.

I’m hoping the iPhone will be something more and something less in the future. More in the sense of a pocket computing platform like the Newton (i miss it dearly), where I can type on a decent text editor with a Bluetooth keyboard like the Stowaway and use 3rd party software. Less in the sense of using the phone with any carrier you wish and, if it came down to it, without a carrier.

To the point of what happens after your contract runs out, I don’t know. I haven’t read anything that says the device becomes disabled again.

In it’s current incarnation it’s for people who have cash and device lust. I think it’s a very, very cool device and I would love one but I can’t justify it.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:14:16 +0000

Have you read that it won’t work as an iPod after your contract runs out?

By: pabugeater

pabugeater — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:10:32 +0000

No, the cost of the iPhone is $500 or $600. But that also gives you a video
iPod, a "smartphone", and "full internet". Plus elegance and ease-of-use not
found on any other phone. It’s a freaking bargin, there are many
"smartphones" that cost much more. It’s the features, baby!

The plan is a wash for smartphone users, they are *already* paying that $60,
likely much more.

For ATT users all you do is add the data plan, $20. For me that’s $480
dollars.

So even in the worse case if you think the iPhone is "just a phone", that’s $1K
over two years.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:49:26 +0000

Um, if you read the article, you’ll see I took the _cheapest_ plan, at $60 a month,
for my headline. The expensive plan was to show the other extreme.

By: ratty

ratty — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:51:44 +0000

So,

What you do is take the MOST expensive plan and use that as an example of
how much the iphone costs. With most plans in the system considering the
things you get it actually works out cheaper for me!! Go figure.