Apple Prices iPhone 4 at $199/$299, Drops 3GS Price to $99
Way to go AT&T!
Remember, the app is free to download, but the feature costs $10 a month and unlike other android apps, this will add to your verizon bill, not pull from another card. so if you download it and love it, great 🙂 if you download it and hate it, make sure to contact a verizon rep to have it removed (or if you manage account online you should be able to do it there too)
On another note, what did you think about what you read about rooting?
I am glad no Verizon iPhone. Who wants those retards on America's best network anyway.
acculabs said:
This is almost a non-event.
I am glad no Verizon iPhone. Who wants those retards on America's best network anyway.
About 50 million VZW subscribers.
Remember, this is the same customer group that STILL complains about required data on smartphones.. not to mention how pissed off they would be when Verizon doesn't offer BOGO or NE2 on the device (Remember, apple sets the prices, not verizon)
would the phone sell? yes. Would everyone who said they would buy it actually buy it? not even close. (You wouldn't believe how many customers I had who said they were going to ATT for the iphone because I mentioned that blackberry's/droid's required data)
Did you see the slide where Jobs showed an email "Some girl saw my iphone and asked me about it. It got her interested in my. Thanks Apple."
Engadget laughed and said, "now thats a magical device."
No 4G data
No Flash
No Micro SD slot
No HDMI port
No 64GB or 128GB models
and this supposed "Retina Display?"??? I was looking at Jobs like, bitch please! 🙄 lmao. I doubt it's that much better than what OLED has to offer. The only trick that Apple is pulling is in the resolution. Offer OLED at the same resoution and maybe this so called "Retina Display" would be marginally better at best than an OLED display.
Having said all of that. In a nutshell to sum it up... FAIL!
But I'm sure it will sell. Even with AT&T's wonderful new data plans. 2gb and 200mb! How generous!!!
Well you know what they say, there's one born every minute!
"But I'm sure it will sell. Even with AT&T's wonderful new data plans. 2gb and 200mb! How generous!!!"
I'm not sure that I understand this post. Do you have multiple personalities? It would help if I understood which "voice" is speaking at any given time. Either it is a success or a failure, kid... Which is it? If this device sells five million new activations for AT&T in the third quarter are you going to call it a failure and name-call anyone who bought the thing a sheep? I'll say one thing: Being a shepherd must pay pretty damned well in these parts.
But I totally agree with you 100% on the plans, and it was a well thought out plan to stick it where it hurts to its new customers, or those who where retarded enough to downgrade to them. Sure right now, they're using less data, but not in the very near future.
Seriously, the quality of applications in the demos they showed blow away everything any Android phone has seen.
Thing is, you're a tech geek. I'm a tech geek. We're all tech geeks...but Apple and Google aren't really marketing to us, they want the general public. So Android is awesome. Great. In the end, the general public looks at Android as an iPhone competitor. When they look at Android, the iPhone is still on their mind. This is why AT&T, despite the bad press and claims that the network isn't as strong, still does more gross adds than their competitors.
So sweet...the market will be saturated by Android phones. You have a choice...but I don't think Android users get the experience that iPhone users get. You have one iPhone and one universal software update. You don't have to wor...
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Believe it or not, the concept of touchscreen interfaces existed LONG before the iphone (or android)
Consumers look at android as an iphone competitor because iphone is the brand name. Even if a customer would be HORRIBLY served by an iphone (IE, they don't want or need data) they know what it is.
Iphone and Blackberry are the ONLY two platforms that have this kind of brand recognition, and bberry is slowly losing it. Droid is gaining it, but it's still a year off, at least.
This doesn't mean that consumers will continue to compare every competitor to the iphone any more than they compare every new brand of cotton swabs to Qtips. Honestly, the ...
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Consumers do care about an iPhone...if that were the case, name brand clothes would never be in fashion. People want an iPhone because they want to say, "I have an iPhone...that makes me better than you." People used to say that about Blackberry because it was the professional phone and a step up from just a basic phone. No one says, "I want a Droid" because that's saying they can't get an iPhone so they are settling for the second best. Not that any of that is true, but that's the perception.
And they are slowing down updates because the OS is at a position where it's very stable and has basically everything it needs to to satisfy most customers. They still provide the OS (for free) to as many companies that want it, they still allow companies to create their own custom overlays over it, they still do hundreds of things differently than apple.
you're confusing "apple does things in this industry recognized pattern" with "if apple does it, then everyone else who does it is copying them"
Blackberry updates thei...
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Like or hate Apple and the iPhone, every time you compare it to the iPhone, Apple wins, because it creates a standard. Let them all stand on their own merit.
As much as the Moto Droid done tons of good for Android and VZW, it did feed customers to the iPhone. People went to look at the Droid, then to check out the iPhone, once you walk out there is a good chance of a lost customer. I doubt right now, and that may change soon enough, nobody or very few wanting an iPhone with money is their pocket is going to check out a Droid or other Android phone. And that needs to change.
And they can't stand on their own merit because
1) The average customer things iphone means smartphone. Seriously.. A good percentage of them don't know that the name is ONLY used by apple. (Ask a sprint, verizon, etc rep how many times they were asked for "verizon's iphone, and the customer didn't mean an apple iphone)
2) Every review blog, newspaper, etc knows that if they mention IPHONE in their review, they'll get more viewers, thus more revenue.
The only thing the iphone has going for it right now is name recognition. It was actually insanely easy to talk customers out of wanting "and iphone" and finding another phone that met their needs (be that the eris, the droid, or even a b...
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(just like Winmo, android, et al wouldn't be what they are now without what the iphone introduced)
Competition breeds innovation. after three years of the same thing, it's really refreshing to see cupertino actually make something drool worthy again.
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