Apple is late to the party with the hardware features but making up for it with an amazingly competitive price and a very slick consumer sync service ... Both of which actually crush everyone else. the pricing and availability via carriers is serious stuff ... why would joe consumer buy an ipod now when for a few extra bucks (plus service each month) they could have an integrated higher end device.
I'm keeping my options open... I've never had an ipod and use my phone for my radio and music when I'm out and about (keeping it all in one device). I hope to get a new phone by the end of the year... so there is no panic buying for me!
yeah... I've heard that before.... but instead of using the exchange rate of $2 = £1 making the iPhone £100 they will prob just change the $ sign for a £ sign making the iPhone £200 (I really hate being ripped off)
Man, I wonder what the other makes will do to bring their mobiles down to where their prices are at least nominally competitive though. $199 on contract is beastly. I guess the Palm Centro did make a bit of noise in Apple's gardens.
The true comparison price is not what Steve Jobs would have you believe. He wasn't comparing apples to apples and was comparing a subsidized phone with a non-subsidized one. People were all over me for saying the Palm Centro was US$99 (which is the subsidized price) so let's be honest here with Apple too.
@palmsolo great point. that's the thing about subsidized phones - the catch is in the contract details. and if what @overpills said is true, £75 per month contract for a free phone? no thanks!
Not to go off on a tangent, but seeing people talk about the price is killing me. The 8gb is $440 - how is that a better price than $400? Ah whatever, I've already blogged about it...
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Add those to the iphone and have some decent apps, = perfection.
1 year ago by adonisdemon
Ah, but yours didn't come with kool-air, nor on a device that normobs faint over in weird convulsions and such.
1 year ago by arjw
You didn't have them in the us... It's new here, like electricity and tv dinners!
1 year ago by Dandandan
@DanDanDan - wrong, I've had it in my pocket since September. It's just shiny is all.
1 year ago by rcadden
Even earlier ... Had the N95-1 which came long before the -3 update
1 year ago by atmasphere
well, ok, US-3G came later, but i had my first non-US 3G device almost 4 years ago :P
1 year ago by cybette
@ricky, which? Electricity or tv dinners? I've heard of this... This, 3g being around, but not for 2years!
1 year ago by Dandandan
@cybette The difference is the presentation, the marketing, the advertising, the pr, the design and the power behind it. It doesn't have to be new...
1 year ago by zacharye
Apple is late to the party with the hardware features but making up for it with an amazingly competitive price and a very slick consumer sync service ... Both of which actually crush everyone else. the pricing and availability via carriers is serious stuff ... why would joe consumer buy an ipod now when for a few extra bucks (plus service each month) they could have an integrated higher end device.
1 year ago by atmasphere
@zacharye: yeah i know, saw a jaiku about how iPhone did more marketing for N95 in the US today than Nokia ever did, it made me laugh (in a sad way)
1 year ago by cybette
The price is attractive, let's see what it'll be in this part of the world..
1 year ago by cybette
I'm keeping my options open... I've never had an ipod and use my phone for my radio and music when I'm out and about (keeping it all in one device). I hope to get a new phone by the end of the year... so there is no panic buying for me!
1 year ago by KevanV
The price is supposed to be the same all over, at least for the 8GB version.
1 year ago by arjw
@arjw: For sure? So around what the 16GB iPhone costs currently?
1 year ago by adonisdemon
yeah... I've heard that before.... but instead of using the exchange rate of $2 = £1 making the iPhone £100 they will prob just change the $ sign for a £ sign making the iPhone £200 (I really hate being ripped off)
1 year ago by KevanV
apparently it's supposed to be free on 75 quid a month contract. 75! joke...
1 year ago by overpills
and chat and MMS
1 year ago by miketuesday
Man, I wonder what the other makes will do to bring their mobiles down to where their prices are at least nominally competitive though. $199 on contract is beastly. I guess the Palm Centro did make a bit of noise in Apple's gardens.
1 year ago by arjw
perhaps sell phones with the same hardware and an updated OS a year later?
1 year ago by atmasphere
The true comparison price is not what Steve Jobs would have you believe. He wasn't comparing apples to apples and was comparing a subsidized phone with a non-subsidized one. People were all over me for saying the Palm Centro was US$99 (which is the subsidized price) so let's be honest here with Apple too.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=1177
1 year ago by palmsolo
Agree Matt but now it is just like every other mobile in the contract game...
1 year ago by atmasphere
@palmsolo great point. that's the thing about subsidized phones - the catch is in the contract details. and if what @overpills said is true, £75 per month contract for a free phone? no thanks!
1 year ago by cybette
Not to go off on a tangent, but seeing people talk about the price is killing me. The 8gb is $440 - how is that a better price than $400? Ah whatever, I've already blogged about it...
1 year ago by zacharye