Thread: IPhone yay or nay?

Iphones get it free, Itouches dont. Ive never understood their treatment of Itouch users...

The iTouch users are second class citizens to Apple.

Originally Posted by SJA

Iphones get it free, Itouches dont. Ive never understood their treatment of Itouch users...

It stems from a government regulation (I can't seem to find the name). The gist is that this law requires vendors to charge consumers for upgrades that add significant functionality unless that consumer device is on a subscription plan. iPhones are on a subscription, iPod touches are not. Now Apple gets to choose what they charge, but they must charge something.

So if you're going to be mad, be mad specifically that Apple is choosing to charge $10 (instead of say $0.99), not that it's charging money at all, because the government is forcing them to do that.

Here's a good link that explains the gist of it back when Apple charged iPod touch users the last time
http://www.macworld.com/article/1319...ipodtouch.html

The money quote from the article:

“It’s an accounting requirement that if you upgrade a device that’s not on a subscription, you have to charge,” Needham and Company financial analyst Charles Wolf said. “Apple has a choice of what to charge, but they have to charge.”

And a quote from Apple's SEC filing that explicitly states that iPhones and Apple TVs will get new functionality but its covered under a subscription
http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/3...17426/d10q.htm

"For both Apple TV and iPhone, the Company indicated it may from time-to-time provide future unspecified features and additional software products free of charge to customers. Therefore, sales of Apple TV and iPhone handsets are recognized under subscription accounting in accordance with SOP No. 97-2. The Company recognizes the associated revenue and cost of goods sold on a straight-line basis over the currently estimated 24-month economic lives of these products with any loss recognized at the time of sale. Costs incurred by the Company for engineering, sales, marketing and warranty are expensed as incurred."

Oh man, when this update drops...

http://www.apple.com/iphone/preview-iphone-os/

Originally Posted by yayupp

I vote yay.

I love mine. I've had my original 8gig for over 2 years now. It's actually my second one because of some experiementing with jailbreak on the first one. Only thing that I don't like is the no sending of pictures through text messaging. But, I think there going to fix that with the new 3.0 update. I love all the app that you can get for free. It has a great UI. I played with my mom's crackberry, what a clusterf***! The iPod function is awesome. I remember the days that you had to have special hookups for earphones.

Buy it. It's cheaper then when it first came out.

please...leave 2-month-old dead topics where they belong....don't resurrect old topics to try and boost your post count, mmkay?