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Because the $2000 you quote can be quite inaccurate. I'd only have to pay a $20/mo addon fee if I wanted to use the iPhone on my current agreement. $20 * 24 = 480. Add $600 for a top of the line iPhone and that adds up to $1080, just over 1/2 of the $2000 figure you like to bandy about.
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a) you still have to pay off your current agreement, whether in full or through some cancellation steps b) It will never apply to the majority of people |
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Minimum new 2-year wireless service plan and activation fee required to activate iPhone features" So you'll be paying $20 + your current rate for two years. So it's a lot more than $20 per month. |
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No, not a lot. You're assuming by the new 2 year contract that at the end of our current 2 year contracts, we wouldn't renew. I'll renew come November, which is when I hope to get an iPhone. so it's no difference as far as additional charges per month. You're also conflating a one-time $36 charge as being "a lot", which it isn't.
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b) Uh, what? Most people with smart phones are already paying these same prices or more for using far inferior products. I'm actually going to save money compared to what I'm paying Verizon right now. |
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If this were some new thing to charge people for a service plan when they got a phone you might have a leg to stand on. But it's not, and you don't. Let it go. Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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Alright, since you people still don't seem to understand where $2000 comes from, I'll illustrate it:
$499 or $599 for iPhone $59.99 per month x 24 months you have to contract for = $1439.76 $36 for Activation Fee ================== MINIMUM that you will pay out for iPhone = $1974.76 + TAX ================== Okay, it's not quite $2000 but it's $25.24 off, which is so minute compared to the overall cost that it might aswell be $2000. And yes, iPhone does not support MMS to other mobile phones - you can remove the pictures, presumably it will sync them with iPhoto when you connect it to your computer but iPhone lacks standard MMS functionality. |
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For someone who CURRENTLY OWNS A CELL PHONE AND PAYS A MONTHLY PLAN, you forgot AGAIN to subtract the cost of that to arrive at the ACTUAL upgrade cost that you originally claimed the $2k was. Jesus neil. Really. This is 3rd grade math. |
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We understand perfectly. But the point is that you'll have to pay a monthly service plan for any phone. So what? That's just the way things work. You try make it sound like the iPhone is $2000 more than anything else out there, and it isn't. Do you know where children get all of their energy? - They suck it right out of their parents! |
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My Treo was $50 a month for voice, and $30 a mo. for unlimited data. $80 a month and it had a 2 year contract. It's irrelevant to the discussion of the "cost" of the phone because that cost is there for any smartphone you wanted to buy. It's not that people don't get it, it's that you don't get it. Everyone already knows. Let it go. No one is being "educated" by your supermath. We already know how to total monthly costs for the service. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go watch my $2,800 Tivo (Tivo fees plus satellite fees), while I drive my $50,000 car (car and gas and repairs and service) to my $1,000,000 house (interest out 30 years, plus repairs plus improvements) while I type it on my $3,000 Macbook (computer plus accessories plus high-speed internet for two years.) Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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No, but you're forgetting that AT&T customers will have to pay their current contract PLUS $20 for iPhone.
People who have a contract but are beyond the minimum term should really know better. Any time I've reached the end of a contract I've been BOMBARDED with offers to upgrade to the latest models and at the very least it's worth taking them if only to sell on eBay and cover the cost of the plan for a while longer, even if it means being locked in. I don't vision that many people will be at the end of or beyond their minimum terms. Why would you ever be in this situation? |
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So their actual cost is $20/mon x 24mon + $500-600 = $480 + $500-600 = $980-1080.
That's hardly $2k, neil. I'm sorry, but your claim still doesn't hold water. Tell you what, why don't you come up with what you see as your *nightmare worst case scenario* for the maximum amount that someone, who *currently has a cell plan* (*and* isn't a complete moron shooting themselves in the foot), would have moving to the iPhone, and then we'll talk. Oh, BTW, my contract was up 4 months ago - I have yet to get a single offer from even my current company, much less be BOMBARDED... Last edited by Kickaha : 2007-06-26 at 15:42. |
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I still retain my point, why would you subtract the current plan if you can cancel it any time you want?
I'm on Orange right now, let's say I pay £30 per month for my service. I see the latest model on Vodafone, but before I can cancel I have to pay off my current contract. My contract runs for 18 months but I've only paid for 10 so far, leaving 8 months still to be paid. That's £8x30 = £240. I must add this figure to the cost of the new phone to gain an accurate idea of how much it will cost me to switch. You seem to be under the impression that EVERYONE with a current contract can get out, free of any charge whatsoever and make some sort of saving in doing so. I don't know where you get that idea. |
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