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I have 3 teenage girls clammering for IPhones, the $99 version sounds like a great idea to me.

Gee Rob, my girls wanted cellphones too. I told them you want'em, you buy'em. That way they take care of them. Too many KIDS now a days get everything handed to them. Sorry not in my house. As they are adults now, they have continually thanked me for making them pave their own way in life. Including medical college. Which is why I suppose I am not strapped like half of Americas parents. Certainly proves my point to my girls now.

Jun 06, 09 - 09:23 am Comment from: jarrettdailynews

@ Rob,

Just what you want, your daughters feeling as though they are cheap.

Why not just go all out and get them nothing, that way they feel like they are nothing?

My kids get an allowance, they can purchase whatever they want because they earned the money they received. My job is to house them, feed them, cloth them. I am not required by law to iPhone them. They want an iPhone they can get it the way I got mine........... have thier aunt buy one for them... Ha Ha

Jun 06, 09 - 10:11 am Comment from: iPhoner

@ Taz

Thanks for the parenting lesson. Please send links to all your youtube videos showcasing how great your kids turned out. Like we give a shit.

I agree with your overall thought process but despise your condescending attitude.

Jun 06, 09 - 10:47 am Comment from: Macintosher

On another subject, if the iPhone and iPod touch are to become pocket computers (as it seems many want them to be) they need an even faster processor and better RAM than that!

Jun 06, 09 - 10:53 am Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

I think kids should be seen and not heard. The little turds should be beaten twice a day whether they deserve it or not. That's how I was raised, and see how well I turned out!

OK, bad example.

Jun 06, 09 - 11:13 am Comment from: Cubert

The 4GB one may just be for overseas.

Jun 06, 09 - 11:47 am Comment from: Hm...

@ Sir Gill Bates

We had to live in a hole in the road. And get up half an hour before we went to bed just to lick the road clean!

Kids nowadays have it so easy...

Jun 06, 09 - 11:53 am Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

@ Hm... ,

That gave me a good laugh!

"... hole in the road."

Hilarious!

Jun 06, 09 - 02:18 pm Comment from: DogGone

@Hm....

You lucky lucky bastard, what would I have given to live in a hole in my road. Come to think of it we didn't even have a road. Some people had it easy.

@ Taz

Your daughters secretly dislike you.

Jun 06, 09 - 02:31 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

"Your daughters secretly dislike you."

They'll let him know when he's old and senile and needs help to accomplish the simplest task:

"Remember Dad, you have to pave your own way in life. And also change your own Depends. Sorry."

Just kiddin' Taz!

@ Taz,

I don't give a rat's arse about you or your daughters. Who the hell you think you are, giving me a moral lesson, you pathetic son of a bitch? Did I ask for one? I hope you die a lonely old man.

Whew - now back to the iPhone...

For me, it's not about the cost of the phone, $99, $499, etc. (within reason, of course), but the ridiculous monthly bill from ATT. The last time I checked, it was about $100 per month for one iPhone. Three in my family are on ATT, and one of us has last year's iPhone - that one iPhone costs $70 per month on the family plan!

As for as iPhone storage space, I have an 8 GB iPod touch with many books, about 20 extra programs, 100 photos, some music, and still have 5 GB free space. Unless I could use my touch as a thumb drive, I don't see needing more than 8 GB. Apple really messed up by not allowing the iPhone/touch to be mounted as an external disk like the earlier iPods.

The $99 dollar 4-GB iPhone would be nice. But maybe they are bumping up the capacity to 16GB and 32GB because a new feature (video recording) will take up much, much more space on people's phones. They may be selling a 4GB iPhone WITHOUT video capability. That would make sense; having different features and tiers for the consumer.

Remember, the goal here, like the iPod, is to get iPhones in as many hands as possible while still relatively maintaining profit margins.

I am so glad you have chosen my way.

You will be warmly welcomed @ my abode once life is done with you. Lucifer

Gee one would think I committed murder or something the way SOME of these comments fell. Never the less it does goes to show you how people react when they are called to the carpet. Guilty Conscientious ? Thought so. I did not give anyone a lesson of any type. I merely stated FACT. If you crooners would think of how much stuff actually lasted longer when you had to pay for it YOURSELF, why then you would understand the theory of correctiveness. But obviously since you had it SO BAD growing up, you have resorted to corrupting the rest of the universe by giving children EVERYTHING. Including that education where they party'd more then studied. Cause if they studied more then we would not have the drop out rate & failures we have in schools across the country. Can't handle the heat big boys, get the hell out of the kitchen. If you care to debate, you will lose to the facts. As far as the YouTube comment there preytel, I would never lower my morals to the point of humiliation it would bring to just get a laugh from a baboon like yourself.

Jun 07, 09 - 12:42 pm Comment from: twilightmoon

Thank God for Rob and Taz they managed to create a whole bunch of posts that (while they had nothing to do with the iPhone or Apple), also had nothing to do with politics!

Hooray.

Jun 07, 09 - 05:30 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

"I am so glad you have chosen my way. You will be warmly welcomed @ my abode once life is done with you. Lucifer"

Hey Lucifer, will you please go ahead and take that cranky bastard 'roger' right now? I'm sure he'll be right at home with all the other Republicans down there.

Oops. Sorry 'twilightmoon'.

Jun 07, 09 - 09:42 pm Comment from: NCIceman

The 99 dollar one will be an 8GB model, not 4.

Jun 08, 09 - 09:26 am Comment from: thethirdshoe

We had to live in a lake.