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Apple and AT&T Announce iPhone Service Plans
daveschroeder writes "Apple and AT&T today announced service plans for iPhone, 4 days before its release in the US at 6pm local time on Friday, June 29. The plans are $59.99/mo for 450 minutes, $79.99 for 900 minutes, and $99.99 for 1350 minutes, and all include unlimited data, 200 SMS messages, rollover minutes, and unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling. Any other standard AT&T service plan may also be used. A two year service plan is required, with a $175 cancellation fee if terminated early. In addition, activations are done via iTunes, so only the hardware is purchased in the store. Interestingly, activation of a contract via iTunes is required to enable the iPod/syncing functionality of the phone as well. (It will remain to be seen whether there are workarounds for this for those who only want the iPod functionality of iPhone, and whether the iPhone is easily unlockable for those who wish to try it on alternate carriers, and so on.)"
Congrats for Apple on maintaining exorbitantly high prices on all of their products and services. If they can get enough suckers to buy this, then good for them. Just goes to show how powerful some smart marketing can be, even among supposedly "educated" consumers.
I don't respond to AC's.
$60/mo for that many minutes, unlimited data, and 250 texts is an extremely reasonable price. If you disagree, you really are an apple-hating troll.org/blog. It's gonna be reeeeally hard to keep myself from dumping like $700 to switch and get this thing right away.
another bullshit argument debunked.
What is this, some kind of pissing contest? Does your penis grow bigger for every "argument" you "debunk" on the internet, never mind if it even was an "argument" in the first place?
What exactly did you "debunk"? Are you saying that since there are screen add-ons for the iPod, no person will ever buy an iPhone just to get a bigger screen to watch video on, ever?