For the last 6 months it has been $100 cheaper to get a new phone on Sprint... but only if you are a new customer. That is, existing customers pay $100 more for the same new phone. It's cheaper to leave Sprint and return than it is to stay with them.
They want to attract new customers... but they shouldn't do it by shafting existing (good) customers. They should do it by showing that is valuable to be an existing good customer. But, they've forgotten that existing customers are a good thing.
Sure, if you're talking spinning metal platters, there's a significant cost in just providing the physical package, regardless of how dense the bits are packed onto the platters. But when you're just talking some silicon for storage and a little more silicon for logic, production is cheap, dirt cheap.
No, it doesn't quite work that way.
The cheapest DDR3 memory I can find is a 2GB stick for $8 (Newegg). The cheapest PC133 memory I found was 512MB for $9.50 (Amazon) (Newegg's cheapest is 256MB for $19). That makes PC133 4 to 16 times more expensive than DDR3.
The cheaper production goes hand in hand with higher density parts. This is why you won't see 32GB SSDs for $20 or less.
Let me know when I can get a 32GB SSD for $20 or less.
And you won't be able to. It doesn't work that way. For instance, you can't get a 320GB hard drive for $10 or less, even though a month ago I bought a 3TB hard drive for $90 (Newegg sale on a Seagate Barracuda 7200.14).
"The better deals for SSDs are now around 80- to 90-cents-per-gigabyte of capacity"? Where's this guy been?
The better deals for SSDs are now close to 50 cents a gigabyte. Two months ago I picked up four 128GB Samsung 830s for $70 each. This past month I've seen a PNY 120GB for $70, an Intel 160GB for $90, and the 128GB Samsung for $70 again. Better deals on larger SSDs (over 200GB) are now 70 cents and less - Newegg just had the a 500GB Samsung 840 for $330 (66 cents/GB).
This is the 5th or 6th story over the last week that I had already read about in the WSJ. Some of them were stories reported the day after they were in the WSJ.
I'll concur with this -- I never saw the "pre-flood" regular price for 2TB at $60-70. I did see 1.5TB at $65 regularly, and did pick up 2TB drives for as low as $75 (pre-flood) -- but that was the cheapest I ever saw them.
Only in the last two weeks I have finally seen 1.5TB for $70 or less from multiple vendors. This week has been the first time I've thought we've hit "pre-flood" prices.
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A clone of Jon Postel to run it all.
Oh, and a firing squad for anyone who tries to add cruft like.info,.name,.pepsi,.microsoft, etc.
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That was my first thought, too!
This is historic only in that Orbital Sciences is closest to NASA at heart.
Orbital has a $1.9B deal to provide 8 cargo flights. Each flight carries about 5000kg. Each is one way (no return payload).
SpaceX has a $1.9B deal to provide 12 cargo flights. Each flight carries about 10000kg. Each provides two way payload delivery.
Do the math. One of these makes sense. Unsurprisingly, the one that doesn't is the one that was stuck in orbit for a week.
At least Orbital is a bargain compared to NASA's shuttle-component-derived SLS.
For the last 6 months it has been $100 cheaper to get a new phone on Sprint... but only if you are a new customer. That is, existing customers pay $100 more for the same new phone. It's cheaper to leave Sprint and return than it is to stay with them.
They want to attract new customers... but they shouldn't do it by shafting existing (good) customers. They should do it by showing that is valuable to be an existing good customer. But, they've forgotten that existing customers are a good thing.
... the "if you are a paying customer" vs. "If you are a pirate" graphic:
http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg
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"Verizon sells all iPhone 5s unlocked, meaning you could take your device over to AT&T or T-Mobile without having to unlock the device."
You could take your Verizon CDMA iPhone over to AT&T or T-Mobile, but you won't ever get it to work on their networks.
I gotta stop feeding trolls.
Sure, if you're talking spinning metal platters, there's a significant cost in just providing the physical package, regardless of how dense the bits are packed onto the platters. But when you're just talking some silicon for storage and a little more silicon for logic, production is cheap, dirt cheap.
No, it doesn't quite work that way.
The cheapest DDR3 memory I can find is a 2GB stick for $8 (Newegg). The cheapest PC133 memory I found was 512MB for $9.50 (Amazon) (Newegg's cheapest is 256MB for $19). That makes PC133 4 to 16 times more expensive than DDR3.
The cheaper production goes hand in hand with higher density parts. This is why you won't see 32GB SSDs for $20 or less.
Let me know when I can get a 32GB SSD for $20 or less.
And you won't be able to. It doesn't work that way. For instance, you can't get a 320GB hard drive for $10 or less, even though a month ago I bought a 3TB hard drive for $90 (Newegg sale on a Seagate Barracuda 7200.14).
"The better deals for SSDs are now around 80- to 90-cents-per-gigabyte of capacity"? Where's this guy been?
The better deals for SSDs are now close to 50 cents a gigabyte. Two months ago I picked up four 128GB Samsung 830s for $70 each. This past month I've seen a PNY 120GB for $70, an Intel 160GB for $90, and the 128GB Samsung for $70 again. Better deals on larger SSDs (over 200GB) are now 70 cents and less - Newegg just had the a 500GB Samsung 840 for $330 (66 cents/GB).
Mod this up.
Agreed! I wish mod points let me mod the article down!
This is the 5th or 6th story over the last week that I had already read about in the WSJ. Some of them were stories reported the day after they were in the WSJ.
I'm not sure these stories are what I read /. for.
Especially if it's true about him!
Give me a break already... I own a Galaxy Nexus. It's bogus for Apple to claim this is a copy of an iPhone.
I'll concur with this -- I never saw the "pre-flood" regular price for 2TB at $60-70. I did see 1.5TB at $65 regularly, and did pick up 2TB drives for as low as $75 (pre-flood) -- but that was the cheapest I ever saw them.
Only in the last two weeks I have finally seen 1.5TB for $70 or less from multiple vendors. This week has been the first time I've thought we've hit "pre-flood" prices.
Software patents are BOGUS.
Yes, but 2 + 2 = 5 is only a short story.
I saw it as Apples attempt to keep the larger screen Samsung phone from hitting the market before the iPhone5.
The Galaxy Nexus has been on sale for almost a year.
As someone up above said "So we've come full-circle and only gained a big heap of complexity".
One of the best ways to make it happen is to declare it's "impossible". It gives people something to strive for.
10.7 dropped support my 1st gen $2000 MacBook Pro, which otherwise still runs perfectly (but with only 10.6).
Apple's hardware isn't just pricey, but they like you to buy new hardware on a regular basis.
Save ALGOL68 before it's too late!
Oops, forget: .net for network infrastructure only ;)
.edu for educational organizations
.com for companies
.org for organizations
.gov for US Federal Gov't
.mil for US military
2-letter TLD using ISO country codes
A clone of Jon Postel to run it all.
Oh, and a firing squad for anyone who tries to add cruft like .info, .name, .pepsi, .microsoft, etc.
We’ve chosen to use uppercase styling in the top menu for two main reasons: 1) to keep Visual Studio consistent with the direction of other Microsoft user experiences, and 2) to provide added structure to the top menu bar area.
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." - Oscar Wilde