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Google's Nexus One, a Steal At $49 Unlocked?
gjt writes "I initially posted a piece ragging on the Nexus One. But then a commenter pointed out a problem with my initial logic, and after doing some math I concluded that the $529 unlocked/unsubsidized Google Nexus One gPhone is much cheaper than it appears to be. In fact it's only $49 over two years — and that's unlocked! Google likes to say that the Nexus One represents 'Our new approach to buying a mobile phone.' But it actually seems as though T-Mobile deserves most of the credit by providing a $20/month discount to customers who purchase an unsubsidized phone, a fact that didn't seem to get much attention when T-Mobile created the plan last October."
1) Get a $99 cheaper plan than the $99.99 one
2) Buy Nexus One
3) Two years later you have earned $2400!
And no need for ???? !
someone carried a story yesterday that Google has sold only 80,000 so far. 20,000 were sold at launch. even apple sold more of the original iphone 2G.
fact is that Google has to rely on it's Android partners to advance the platform and they can't be successful in selling their own handset since no one wants to help a competitor.
they already probably have enough problems with their partners who are competitors coding new features in secret and only releasing the code after the product is released. Android has been fairly successful as a platform, but it's only the cheapest manufacturers making the phones for it. Samsung, HTC and LG who make dozens of new handsets every year, each one sells a few and the marketing departments are overworked trying to find new names for next years models. it's almost like they only company it's hurting is Microsoft. Apple and Blackberry don't seem hurt by Android.
I know this is Slashdot, where only literacy in Linux is a requirement. Nonetheless:
This guy seems to conflate sunk and running costs.
Let's use the numbers he gives. Then we have two options:
Subsidized: {$179.00} + {$79.99/month . 24 months} = $179.00 + $1919.76 = $2098.76 (1)
Unsubsidized: {$529.00} + {$99.99/month . 24 months} = $529.00 + $2399.76 = $2928.76 (2)
You are paying $830 more for the unsubsidized phone.
The article's assertion that $529 - $480 is what the phone really costs is incorrect, since if you are buying the unsubsidized phone, the running costs are those of the unsubsidized phone, rather than the subsidized one. Or see it this way: He is saying that what will effectively come out of your pocket for the unsubsidized phone is
$529 - $480 = $529 - {$2399.76 - $1919.76} = $529 - $2399.76 + $1919.76
which is at odds with (1) and (2) above. I.e. to arrive at his number you are buying the unsubsidized phone, paying the subsidized running costs, and on top of that somehow receiving the money for the unsubsidized running costs!
You jest, but offering to help with the dishes will give you an instant-in to her pants more than anything else will.
Just don't go for all that marriage shit, unless you live in an Islamic country where slappin' and pimpin' is commonplace. Otherwise she'll forget to take her birth control and have your baby before she leaves you paying her child support while she fucks a nigger.
It assumes lots of things. Leading me to assume the guy is not an engineer and just a whiney idiot.
There are plenty of women on Slashdot. Just don't look below the butthole where the dangling scrotum lies, and you'll be allright. You're not a fag if you didn't know.
Logic says the iPhone is the better device and the real bargain.
You can usually make your SO happy by saying something in the lines of "I think we've saved enough percentages for today, honey"