MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first

May 01, 08 - 10:24 am Comment from: macoverdose_dot_com

lol its funny how all the mouth pieces think everything is gonna cannibalize iPod sales.... I guess if they say it long enough... and enough time.. eventually someday they may end up being right.... I dont see that happening for a long time though.

I am sure Apple has just been testing the waters so far with iPhone 1.0.

We can expect a lot of changes with iPhone 2.0, in term of design, fuctionality and overall strategy.

Therefore, anything can happen with the deal they have with AT&T;, Orange, T-Mobile, etc... from my prospective.

Hopefully Apple won't make the same mistake as they've done with the Mac.

May 01, 08 - 10:28 am Comment from: stormy

Wow more guessing/speculation on something that may or may not happen.

May 01, 08 - 10:30 am Comment from: Cubert

If AT&T;does this, iPhones will sell faster than Pez.

And I loves my Pez!

May 01, 08 - 10:31 am Comment from: Jay-Z

I don't know how I feel about this subsidy rumor... On one hand, it's great because it gets the phone into more people's pockets; on the other hand, does it inherently devalue the iPhone by making it a commodity product?

I laugh when I read crap like this. When customers forego one of your products in order to buy another with a larger contribution margin, it's NOT called cannibalization!

I suppose they just need an editor with some business savvy, so we should go easy on them.

@Jay-Z,

No. Selling a lot of iPhones doesn't make it a "commodity product." Commodities are products that multiple companies produce with virtually indistinguishable characteristics. Gold is a commodity because one miner's gold is as good as another's. The iPhone is pretty much the opposite of a commodity, regardless of the price.

May 01, 08 - 10:40 am Comment from: Roberto

"pending-but-unannounced 3G iPhone"

Unannounced. May not happen. Perhaps something other than 3G. I hope the next one is NOT a 3G iPhone, so the dumbasses that keep announcing an unannounced product will look like the idiots that they are.

May 01, 08 - 10:47 am Comment from: HotinPlaya

would double our family buying plan

my wife and I both have iPhones, and if they dropped to $199.00, my 2 oldest would be getting now, instead of next Christmas!

The most we might see is a $100 subsidy, but we will NOT see it happen only at the AT&T;stores. It will happen across the board IF it happens at all.
Again, Apple will not hinder traffic to their Apple Stores in any way, shape, or form.

Is this Toni the same as the one who bashing on AAPL before?

May 01, 08 - 11:05 am Comment from: NeverFade

I'd buy one from at&t;.

That way, my $200 sprint contract penalty would be a wash...

May 01, 08 - 11:06 am Comment from: HMCIV

I doubt AT&T;will do this.

No shit! If you give it away for free, they will sell even more. And if the rumor doesn't pan out, Toni will be the first to say whatever it takes to knock Apple down and Eric will be the first to blog about it.

May 01, 08 - 11:37 am Comment from: dd

It will be nice if true, but I've got an iPhone fund ready for the top-of-the-line 3g device. :D

I don't like this rumored unilateral move by AT&T;. They are about the worst partner that Apple has. They made the stock tank earlier with a misleading iPhone sales announcement. And they do less than nothing to promote the phone itself. When you walk/drive by an ATT store, you can't even tell they even sell iPhones, although every other phone they carry is full "posterized" inside and out. I hope that Apple gets out of this contract with ATT and never looks back.

May 01, 08 - 12:31 pm Comment from: Macintosh

So, what all this BS about subsidizing the iPhone means is:

A bunch of morons that think the iPhone should be treated like a Razr are going to focus on subsidizing it, even though nobody has a good reason to believe this will happen... and when it doesn't happen the stock is going to drop.

Apple should and will treat the iPhone like a computer (which it is), and not like a cell phone.

This is like saying Skype should subsidize MacBooks.

Won't hurt iPod Touch sales in Vermont as there is no AT&T;.

The sky is blue

It doesn't make sense to expect subsidy from AT&T;in addition to monthly sharing with Apple. It will be one or the other, not both. Apple wants the sharing, so I expect that to remain. It eliminates the devaluation of the hardware and it give Apple income to cover updates under Sarbanes-Oxley.

Besides, all of this talk is pure speculation. We don't know what agreement Apple and AT&T;have for next iPhone, but this issue is covered, that is for sure.

Wow! Did you hear that Skype is going to give a $800 subsidy for MacBooks? That will cause Macintosh sales to skyrocket! Now if we could just get NBC to subsidize iPods, Apple might have a future!