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Technology Stocks : Apple Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: slacker711 who wrote (75718)	6/17/2008 7:45:14 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

iPhone Interest Quadruples For O2 UK, 30 Million Global Sales Forecast biz.yahoo.com Tuesday June 17, 4:12 am ET By Robert Andrews Maybe Apple (NasdaqGS: AAPL - News) will meet that 10 million iPhones target after all. O2, the exclusive UK carrier, says more than 130,000 people have used its online form to pre-register their interest in the new 3G handset since its announcement last week. That's nearly four times the 35,000 pre-registrations O2 got for iPhone 1.0 between last September and November. And it doesn't include an equivalent form from retail partner Carphone Warehouse. ADVERTISEMENT It's not down to the GPS or the Microsoft (NasdaqGS: MSFT - News) Exchange support. The new handset's best feature is the price - the 8Gb flavour down from the original £269 ($529) on a £35pm ($69pm) contract to just £99 ($194), or free on £45pm ($88pm) and above. That additional subsidy to eliminate the handset cost makes iPhone 2.0 cheaper than the AT&T's (NYSE: T - News) $199 pricepoint in its native US. All of which rather goes against Apple's original insistence on no subsidies - but whatever gets you the sales… CCS Insight mobile researcher Ben Wood reckons Apple "is on course to smash its original target" with 30 million sales over the next 12 months, he says on Telegraph.co.uk: "(Apple) has taken an aspirational device and delivered it an affordable price point. The volume will be extraordinary."

To: slacker711 who wrote (75718)	6/17/2008 7:49:33 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

I am looking at my cost to upgrade versus staying with my EDGE iPhone. Gizmodo is reporting that AT&T plans on enforcing their standard upgrade policy for the iPhone 3G, even for iPhone 2G users. That means if you don't qualify for a discount by virtue of being near the end of your 2 year contract (and no iPhone user would be), then you'll have to pay the full unsubsidized price (not yet disclosed). As you calculated, the new 3G plans were going to cost $360 more over the course of the 2 year contract, and now tack on at least $500 for the hardware. Odd, though because I would think that AT&T would be happy to transfer a 2G iPhone user to the more expensive, non-revenue sharing 3G plan. Their subsidy would have to be much higher than I'd originally thought (>$600?) for the new deal to be a net negative for AT&T. gizmodo.com