Tuesday, June 10, 2008

TechCrunch UK gets the press release with the prices for the new iPhone in the UK and posts it instantly: "The 8GB model will cost just £99 on a new £30 per month tariff and the existing £35 per month tariff. Consumers choosing either the £45 or £75 per month tariffs will get the 8GB [...]

So – is that $199 price subsidised? Because unless Apple has invented some pretty amazing manufacturing processes, I can’t see how it isn’t. Although having said that, other than the screen, the hardware is pretty much what the state of the art in phones was a few years ago, so it’s probably pretty cheap to [...]