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Apple Makes $831 On Each AT&T iPhone
Ponca City, We Love You writes "The NYTimes reports that Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, has studied Apple's financial statements and come to the conclusion that AT&T is paying Apple $18 a month, on average, for each iPhone sold by Apple and activated on AT&T's network — up to $432 over a two-year contract. This shows how much incentive Apple has to maintain its exclusive deal with AT&T rather than to sell unlocked phones or cut deals with multiple carriers. Last week Apple disclosed that 250,000 iPhones had been purchased but not registered with ATT that Apple thinks are being unlocked so Apple has now taken action to curb unauthorized resellers by limiting sales of the iPhone to two per customer and requiring that purchases must now be made with a credit or debit card — cash will not be accepted." The latter article links to a US Treasury page explaining the incorrectness of the widely-held belief that cash cannot be refused for any transaction.
iPhones are magic, and you know it. :-)
Ok, you're right. That is, unless Apple is using Oompa Loompas to make them. Then, they might be free. The materials are all derived from recycling old Newtons and glued together with the tears of Apple fanatics upset about the $200 price drop.
My mom says I'm cool.
But nowhere on there does it say "Good for all iPhones, public and private".
Schrödinger's download is slow.
It didn't strike me until the second to last sentence that Apple and Orange seem strangely fitting together.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Yes, because only Apple and Microsoft make mobile phones.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
You're clearly comparing Apples and Oranges here.
I still do almost all my purchasing with cash. I get it from ATMs, but then nobody really knows where I spend that money. That means my wife can't track where I've been, except the the nearest ATM.
All pass beyond reach of medicine. None pass beyond the reach of love.
If oompa loompa's are 8 year old chinese kids.
It's tough to start conspiracy rumours when they state up front that they won't take cash because they're trying to track the people who purchase their phones. I prefer it when they try to hide what they're doing to reduce their customers' privacy. It's more challenging ...
.. paranoid crackpot leftover from the days of Amiga.
(Irritating teenager in an Apple store grasps for iPhone, bugs parents and then just takes one from the stand.)
(Lights flash, teenager freezes mid-grasp.)
(A group of small, odd men enter from a previously unnoticed doorway under the iMac stand.)
Oompa Loompa doopity do
I've got an iPhone here for you.
Oompa Loompa doopity day
Sign here and here and take it away.
What do you get when you follow a craze?
Buying everything to the end of your days.
What do you do when you're nose-deep in debt?
You will pay all your wages, that's a certain bet.
I don't like the look of it.
Oompa Loompa doopity dah
If you are cautious you will go far.
You can live in happiness too
Without credit like the Oompa Loompas doopity do!
(Irritating teenager is sucked down a pipe, parents watch in horror and are led away by an Oompa Loompa)
"Wait a second, this introduces an interesting chicken and egg problem. If the phones are made from the tears of those who are upset about the price drop, what are the phones those original zealots overpaid for glued together with?"
The tears of those same fanboys from all the leopard delays of course
...so sorry.
Fuck Apple
This is more horrendous bullshit, from a hardware manufacturer trying to hold it's consumers / customers hostage...to the world's shittiest telco.
There is NO device that has functionality SO GREAT...that would make me jump through hoops such as this nonsense.
When are people going to wake up?
But unless someone drops us an Apple spreadsheet, this is the best its gonna get.
Can OpenOffice even open a Claris Works spreadsheet??