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Originally Posted by torifile
So what's the non-contract price of an iPhone? How do we know it's not subsidized? Because Apple said so?
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Okay, then how do we know it
is? Because AT&T has said so? (They haven't, that I've seen.)
Either way, the bottom line price for an iPhone, if you really need to have one, is $500 or $600 plus the $175 early termination fee. That means, at most, the iPhone is "subsidized" to the tune of $175, but that conflicts with everything Apple has said thus far. (Every analyst I've seen seems to think the $175 ETF is simply price-gouging by AT&T and not reflective of the need to recoup any alleged subsidization of the handset.)