New iPhone "Deal"
Starting on July 11, the new 3G iPhone be available at your local AT&T outlet for the low, low, low price of $199 or $299 for the 8 gigabyte and 16 gigabyte models respectively. AT&T will also be offering the same phones but without the contract for $599 and $699 respectively.These contract-free, meaning it sells without the usual two-year service agreement, phones will not natively be usable on another network, so what does the extra $400 bucks actually buy you? According to AT&T, they are selling these phones contract-free for people who are not comfortable with long term contracts. I'm thinking they are looking for new ways to make money on folks who want the technology but not their service. Basically a $400 mark-up for anyone who doesn't want to use AT&T and can't be bothered with signing a contract and then canceling it later [which today they have their early-termination fee is a maximum of $175]. Of course they could just be sticking it to the consumer who has bad credit but wants the slick new iPhone. If that's the case, how sad for the company to take advantage of those down on the luck and even sadder for the consumer who can't pay his grocery bill but has a shiny new iPhone.
For me, I'll stick to me cool new [and free] Juke and everyone else can have their silly iPhones [on AT&T].
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posted by TheWino @ 11:17 AM
2 Comments:
I was about to tear into you Wino until I read the last thought of your first paragraph. Here's my take:
If you have an iPhone, you are not allowed to bitch about gas prices. Period. There could not be a bigger icon of holier-than-thou materialism than the iPhone.
If you have an iPhone, you are one of those people who thinks they are cool because they are doing things that other fancy, hip people are doing. You are the dork in the glasses and fake scar at the Harry Potter book launch. You are the only dude carrying a lightsaber to "Clone Wars" on opening night. You wish you could wear a mock turtleneck like Senor Jobs, but it's too hot out. The sad fact is that you are a sheep-esque follower and you look like a tool. You have no individuality and are not able to "think different". Kind of like scientologists, now that I think about it.
I will stick with my crap-tastic Samsung phone until it dies, regardless of the "screw every two" offer my Ver-ass-zon plan offers. Who needs a keyboard? Texting is for suicidal or stupid teens who drive, isn't it?
No your wrong - Texting is for have-too-way-too-much-time-on-there-hands teens who would rather spend an entire morning exchanging short poorly typed messages instead making a single 10 minute phone call.
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