Comments on: Your Choice: iPhone + AT&T or A New Car

By: Rafael Cortes

Rafael Cortes — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:41:13 +0000

I am angry! No iPhone for Puerto Rico, no price changes for Puerto Rico, no NOTHING for Puerto Rico…
I am sticking with my P-O-S Cell Phone Carrier from which most people in the US have never heard about (Centennial), but at least pricing and coverage are great (although data is slow, and phones are ugly)… Oh well, part of living in Paradise… Not-So-Techy Paradise

[WM: Move to Charleston. We’ve got your weather PLUS the iPhone.]

By: nullvariable

nullvariable — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:38:59 +0000

I can’t remember the exact number of iPhones that Steve Jobs wants to sell but its an absurd number (I think the Register had an article on it). Basicly the number was something like what one of the biggest phone companies on the market sells accoros multiple phones in multiple countries with multiple providors. Making the iPhone an AT&T product only had to be one of the biggest mistakes that Apple made in releasing the iPhone. One thing that I have heard that does make sense on the unit pricing is to look at the cost of an iPod…This gets you a lot closer to the iPhone’s cost and seems to make more sense ie if you have an iPhone you don’t need to shell out 300 for an iPod…Time to hit eBay and get me a nice used iPod for cheap.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:44:53 +0000

It’s just a FAD. The keynote was full of bold faced lies. Everyone will find that out after they shell out their money for an overpriced Nano. It will definitely sell. I just hope non of my corporate customers switch to them.

Also. Thank you for all your past articles on Asterisk. They have helped me immensely. Asterisk is really the main reason I switched to Linux. I almost have everything in my lab at home switched over. Hopefully I can start contributing back in the future!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:43:11 +0000

Don’t worry about these guys, ward. They just need to feel justified for shelling out that much cash for something that’s barely worth half the price.

What’s the big deal with the iPhone anyway? (BTW, Linksys has had a product on the market called iPhone for some time – can’t wait for the lawsuit!) It plays MP3s? Big F’n Deal! I’ve been carrying MP3-playing phones for a good FIVE YEARS now. Web surfing? I’ve been surfing the web on my phones for the same five years. Photos and videos? Yep – five years. So what gives? YouTube? Is that really the only thing that this phone offers that others don’t?

Anyone willing to spend as much as they’re charging for this thing is a sheep – plain and simple. The most gullible of the most gullible, falling for the marketing hype hook, line and sinker. Those of you who are willing to wait in line to get one of these things deserve to have your wallets emptied.

[WM: We used to write a lot of Mac HOW-TO’s but the Apple Kool-Aid drinkers got tedious. They’re a huge part of the reason Apple still has 5% of the desktop computer market instead of 95%. But who cares. We enjoy reading (and writing) rants once in a while.]

By: Al

Al — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:10:00 +0000

Well, I charge my clients $50 a day for communications whether I send them an email or call them in person. AT&T’s rate plans plus the iPhone costs, amortized over 2 years is actually cheaper than the cost of the wireless modem in my laptop plus my cell phone and their two plans.

Looks like a winner to me. Sign me up.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:39:20 +0000

Since you were so wrong, why not take down the %$@# article instead of leaving it up to confuse people? Or at least put your mea culpa at the front of the article, instead of the end. [WM: We like showing off the egg on our face once in a while. It matches the car, don't you think? And sometimes we even enjoy confusing people. We've always printed corrections and updates at the end of our articles (probably since you were in diapers). We do that so readers can get the context for the correction. Finally, it wasn't a mea culpa as you put it. It was an amendment to accurately reflect what transpired later in the day. We've never laid claim to being a fortune teller. And, just for the record, AT&T changed their pricing strategy for the iPhone only. They still price gouge on data and messaging services with some of their other phones and PDAs. How many of those do you think they'll sell after Friday? At least Apple had the good sense to recognize that the old pricing strategy would have killed the iPhone right out of the chute. So good for them.]

By: mdot

mdot — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:47:20 +0000

Hey Apple Fanboys, calm down.

This was just a hypothetical example given the prevailing rates at the time of publication.

No need to treat the author like he predicted slavery would never end.

Geesh…

By: Matt Thomas

Matt Thomas — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:01:25 +0000

You’ve put a remarkable amount of effort into a theory that was proven wrong pretty quickly!

[WM: Yeah, ain’t that great! Not too much effort actually, and we’re delighted by the outcome. Can you believe they amended their pricing so quickly? Nerd Vittles Rulz! Just goes to show how overpriced the data plans at AT&T have been all along. We’ll be at the front of the line to buy one on Friday just like many of you.]

By: Faulk

Faulk — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:26:35 +0000

Don’t you feel stupid now?

By: Heatmiser

Heatmiser — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:19:34 +0000

I hope you didn’t spend too much time on this post since it is now totally inaccurate with the release of the iPhone pricing plans.