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New iPhone looks good but I can't help thinking they're just adding things everyone else has already. 3G, GPS, google maps....it's all absolutely nothing new.
I suppose Apple make a big hoo-har by introducing cool devices which have interesting things and don't have the features everything else has (but which nobody really uses), then spend the time until v2 release catching up with those other features - by which time they're more widely used, and cheaper.
So....do I get rid of my K850, blackberry & iPod for an iPhone? oo-er we'll see, it's so tempting
I suppose Apple make a big hoo-har by introducing cool devices which have interesting things and don't have the features everything else has (but which nobody really uses), then spend the time until v2 release catching up with those other features - by which time they're more widely used, and cheaper.
So....do I get rid of my K850, blackberry & iPod for an iPhone? oo-er we'll see, it's so tempting
New iPhone looks good but I can't help thinking they're just adding things everyone else has already. 3G, GPS, google maps....it's all absolutely nothing new.
I suppose Apple make a big hoo-har by introducing cool devices which have interesting things and don't have the features everything else has (but which nobody really uses), then spend the time until v2 release catching up with those other features - by which time they're more widely used, and cheaper.
So....do I get rid of my K850, blackberry & iPod for an iPhone? oo-er we'll see, it's so tempting
Isn't that one of the strategies of business? Don't ait until it's perfect but just get it out quickly as soon as it is 'acceptable'. Then get it right in version 2? Seems like a good strategy to me.
I cannot see how we'll sell contracts instore as wellwe don't have any tills! let alone any systems to put through contracts like at O2 stores etc. I seriously doubt we'll be doing all the checks in store/contracts, at least I hope to god we aren't!
I'm not sure what you mean by "we", but if you work in an Apple store I don't think you'll be selling them. The "where to I buy" section lists o2 and CPW, not Apple stores or online so I think they are ditching the whole idea of buying the handset from Apple themselves for the time being.. at least in the UK.
Certainly looks like it. A nail in the coffin for people who want to buy one and then unlock it then. What a shame
? HowCertainly looks like it. A nail in the coffin for people who want to buy one and then unlock it then. What a shame
As far as I can see it, apple have entirely solved the problems they were having:
1. If you want a cheap iPhone (ranging from free on a £75/m contract to around £100 on cheaper ones for an 8Gb), you can have one. But you HAVE to sign the contract in store/online before getting it. You have to do that with any phone - e.g. N95 for free, when its RRP is £400+.
2. As apple can't stop people unlocking them (the v2 betas are already jailbroken), and don't want to lose out on possible money making, they'll sell it on Pay as you Go. It won't be cheap, but you will be able to walk out of the store without signing up to anything.
Which you can't buy anywhere and are going on ebay for stupid money?
As far as we can see, the contracts are pretty much the same as they used to be. You'll get it free on a £45/month contract with 1200mins and 500texts.
I think people seem to be forgetting that the 1st gen iPhone is all but gone now... stocks are depleted and from now on the 3G iPhone is it unless you want to spend crazy money on Ebay for old tec.
I feel a bit of an idiot... for some reason I put aside all my dislike of Apple and thought that with this new 3G iPhone that they were going to be reasonable and lay out a good handset with good tariffs without trying to control everything in true Nazi style. How wrong i was.
I don't think i'll ever consider an Apple product again... it's a horrible company even by the mercenary standards of today (imo).
I feel a bit of an idiot... for some reason I put aside all my dislike of Apple and thought that with this new 3G iPhone that they were going to be reasonable and lay out a good handset with good tariffs without trying to control everything in true Nazi style. How wrong i was.
I don't think i'll ever consider an Apple product again... it's a horrible company even by the mercenary standards of today (imo).
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Dear god, well atleast i might be able to get one shipped from USA.
Yea, I said earlier, it will be same as the old models were. Think the 16GB with be £350 or around there.
Will lose the warrenty.
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1st, iphone v1 is not old tech, it has the same CPU and screen
They didn't update the tech, they added other stuff on.2nd, £169 for a iphone without contract was good
As for the current contract instore..............do you hate every other phone company and manufacturer too? Because that is how they do it.......
So would I. Paid the same for the first gen, I would happily do it again.
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Actually, I would be too, the itouch 8G is about £100 cheaper but this has a phone, which turns it into a mobile internet god !
But I can't see it, i mean the N95 was like £400 with no contract, it would be a miracle if this is £269 i think. Last time it was £269 because Apple was banking on people going home and activating it, I bet they never expect the jailbreaking would take off as big as it did.
I thought Apple had a world-wide warrenty policy as standard? Also - Could you buy an iPhone out of contract for cheap in the US?
1st, iphone v1 is not old tech, it has the same CPU and screen
2nd, £169 for a iphone without contract was good
As for the current contract instore..............do you hate every other phone company and manufacturer too? Because that is how they do it.......
The difference being that other phone manufacturers do not ENFORCE you to sign in-store... they also sell them as individual handsets and don't care what you do with them after that... you can do as you please as is your right. Apple don't want you to do that!
*sniffle*
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Apple should have never partnered up with certain carriers tbh, it's just losing them sales.