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Apple rakes in $831 from every iPhone sold
iPhone’s exclusive American operator AT&T ends up paying out $18 a month to Apple just for the privilege of stocking the thing, thanks to data revealed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
Plus iPhone doesn’t come with any old mobile contract – poor Americans are LOCKED DOWN into it for a full two years, hence all the fuss about unlocking it. Then you’ve got the price of the phone itself on top of that. It all comes to $831 winging its way to Apple…
Shiny Video Preview: T-Mobile's 'My Faves' new service
On Friday last week, I made it down to T-Mobile’s store on Oxford Street, where they were showing off a new service to the press, due to hit this week. From November the 1st, T-Mobile customers can choose a new contract, called ‘My Faves’, which…
Apple already selling refurbished iPhones
Less than two months after Apple began selling the iPhone in the US through AT&T and Apple Stores, it’s also offering refurbished iPhones on its own web site, retailing at $100 less than their original price.
Selling refurbished products isn’t a new thing for Apple. They’ve been shifting iPods, Macs, and other hardware for years in this way, usually because a customer has returned the product unwanted.
Why iPhone will cost some users $3,034.76 over first two years
How much? That’s right. If you’re in the US and buy the 8GB iPhone on the most expensive contract available, you’ll end up paying over THREE GRAND over the course of the two-year AT&T Wireless contract that you’ll have to sign up to.
European iPhone launch at risk from arrogance – but whose? Apple's or the mobile operators
We already know that the iPhone won’t be legitimately found in Europe until at least the last quarter of 2007, but recent reports suggest that we could be waiting a lot longer than that.
While it may not have been the most popular choice, we were at least hoping that Apple were close to a pan-European deal.
Off the record, though, some mobile operators are saying that they’ll never stock the iPhone, thanks to Apple being “unbelievably arrogant” and “making demands that ‘simply cannot be justified no matter how hot the product is'”.
We’re led to believe that Steve Jobs talked tough to get his way with AT&T, and that Verizon refused to bow to the pressure.
Is the same true in Europe, or is the differing nature of European operators making it harder for Apple to get its own way? Is it possible that the operators are the arrogant ones, unhappy at being asked to agree to a new business model (who wants to share revenue, eh?)
What are the options?
