Haha, just kidding, iSuppli. Actually, it was more like… hmmm, what’s $26 million (cost of iPhone development) divided by 270,000 (# of iPhone units sold). Carry the… Hmmm, $96.30! Software as a $7 line item, indeed. And of course, that’s just the software R&D. There’s many other iPhone-related info from Apple’s 10-Q.
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File this under “Too good to be true”, but one commenter and two other people emailing me claim that AT&T salespeople unlocked their iPhones after canceling service. Sound credible to you? Me neither. But according to a user named RAJ…
2 OF MY FRIENDS HAD THE CONTRACT WITH AT&T. THEY TOOK IT ON 29 JUNE WHEN I-PHONE WAS LAUNCHED, TODAY ON 1ST AUG JUST AFTER ONE MONTH OF THEIR CONTRACT THEY SIMPLY CANCELED THE CONTRACT BY PAYING EARLY CONTRACT TERMINATION FEES OF 175 ( ALTHOUGH THE FEES WAS ALSO WAIVED OFF FOR THEM FOR SOME REASON). THEN THE AT&T HAD UNLOCKED THEIR I-PHONES BY PUTTING SOME CODES. NOW THEY SAID THAT THEY CAN USE THEIR I-PHONE WITH ANY OTHER CARRIER TOO….
Now, this has to be true because it was typed in All-caps. Anything typed completely in uppercase characters must be taken seriously.
So there you have it. Whether this is true or not I cannot verify, so don’t shoot me – I’m just the messenger.
Dave Stolte had a nasty surprise in store for him, upon returning from a trip to Eurorpe (with his iPhone) – a $3,000 bill from AT&T. It seems David learned the hard way that AT&T does not offer international roaming with its iPhone data plans.
Two weeks of travel with sporadic AT&T EDGE network usage off and on mixed with wifi when available… $3000. Doing some research, I learned this morning that AT&T offers unlimited international data usage at $70 per month to its Blackberry customers. Here’s my bottom line: I want this same usage plan to be made available to iPhone customers and to be applied retroactively to my account.
There’s a spate of stories (my favorite was from Om Malik) out there about the dip in AAPL stock, how analysts originally thought there were up to 700,000 activations, but AT&T’s Q3 earnings report indicated a different story, 146,000 activations that first weekend. The stock dipped quite a bit on this news, something like 8% at its peak, but I’m sure Piper Jaffray remains confident that Apple stock will hit $205. Anyway, one thing that I’ve realized from AT&T’s earnings report is that their 40% of iPhone activations that came from other carriers is in line with the 40% of non-AT&T subscribers on their iPhone email notification list.
AT&T doused analyst’s wild expectations yesterday by announcing that on the weekend of launch, AT&T saw just 146,000 iPhone activations, well short of expectations. That’s activation, not actual sales. Analysts had projected that during the same period more than 500,000 iPhones had sold through. Needless to say these two numbers don’t jive, leading many firms like Piper Jafrey to question how successful iPhone sales really are.
I had the same reaction when taking my dog to go potty this morning. After feeding him an entire bag of Puppy Chow, I expected far more substantial return. Instead the results were weak and disappointing. As a result, I am placing both my dog and iPhone on eBay.
The results are in: we’ve been owned. Wired had a EULA lawyer from the EFF to analyze the binding contract for anyone that has activated an iPhone. Your contract, like any other cell phone contract anyone ever agreed to, is hilariously long and screws you six ways to Sunday. [I Agree]
Piper Jaffray issued a stock target of $205 for Apple, based off shared revenue from AT&T iPhone users, a projected 45 million iPhone sales by 2009, and math.
Among the dull roar of criticisms about iPhone I have to endure, one in particular stands out as the most irritating and unfounded – the attack against AT&T. I hear these slanderous indictments all the time…“Why did Apple choose AT&T?”, “AT&T sucks! They should have gone with Verizon or Sprint”, “AT&T is evil”. Blah blah blah.
Here’s a bit of schooling for you numbskulls – What you don’t understand is that the quality and reliability of wireless service in the U.S. is subjective and varies from one location to another. For example, in my specific locale, Sprint offers the worst reliability and coverage of any major carrier. T-Mobile is practically non-existent. Verizon offers great service, but their selection of handsets is abysmal. So, for all practical purposes, AT&T is the “best” wireless carrier for me. Your experience will vary. A friend of mine who lives in Redmond Washington (no, it isn’t Bill Gates) says that T-Mobile offers the best coverage and voice quality in his area, while Sprint is teh suck. So which one of us is right? We both are.
Unlike other parts of the world like Asia and Europe, wireless infrastructure in North America is less ubiquitous and unevenly distributed. This is the reason why we suffer through so many dropped calls, poor voice quality, and latency.
So yes, AT&T does suck. And so does Verizon. So does Sprint. So does T-Mobile. And so on. There is no “best” wireless carrier, only best in your location. Live it, learn it, be it.
American Technology Research today reported from sources unknown that more than 25% of iPhone users are “switchers” coming from other wireless carriers. The firm also sees iPhone’s potential to lure users to a particular carrier as a stong bargaining chip for Apple as it negotiates exclusive contracts to one lucky European carrier.
You know the execs at Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile have to be drinking lots of pink medicinal liquid right about now.
A story I posted earlier last month regarding AT&T’s decision to exclude its Business Account customers from buying iPhones has become a raging bonfire for angry readers venting their frustrations against AT&T. Some have threatened to organize a class action lawsuit the wireless carrier.
A reader named Rob Schrader wrote…
I just purchased 2 8 gig iPhones today after waiting for 3 hours in line. Once I got home to activate them I found that I can not use with existing ATT business accounts. They told me that I would have to transfer my business number to a personal account. When I called Apple to return, I was told they would charge me a 10 percent re-stocking fee. Sounds to that ATT is cooking the books forcing existing customers to create new accounts and showing them as new subscribers. Sounds like a class action suit to me.
Mark shares his resolve…
I waited months for the iPhone (like others) but was never told that my waiting was in vain. I bought an iphone like others and had to find out the hard way that I couldn’t use it. Nobody from Apple or AT&T seemed to know the truth, or were rather hiding the truth. Sign me up for the suit as well.
Marlyn writes that AT&T isn’t forthcoming about the policy and that she had to demand a waiver of the restocking fee, which she got…
The same thing happened to me. My number is under my husband’s business account but they didn’t bother to tell me that I could not use the iPhone when I purchased it after waiting in line for hours. I took it home and of course had to open the box to find out. I was LIVID. I took the phone back and when it came time for me to sign for my refund (minus “restocking fees”) I told them I wasn’t budging until they gave me something in writing stating they sold me the phone knowing full well it was a business account. The manager then made a phone call and credited my account the $60.00 restocking fee and refunded my credit card the cost of the balance of the iPhone and accessories I purchased along with it. Don’t let them put the screws to you people. DEMAND your FULL refund. It is NOT YOUR FAULT!
Read on for the full list of comments and complaints. Wear a flame retardant suit, it’s hot in there.
