{"id":168,"date":"2007-07-14T11:45:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T06:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kunaldua.local\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2007-07-14T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T06:15:01","slug":"500-dollars-fully-subsidized-with-a-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/14\/500-dollars-fully-subsidized-with-a-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sample this conversation over IM with Amitabh<\/a> last week:<\/p>\n

Amitabh<\/b>: u know apple shd come up with an offer that they will pay for all early terminations
\nAmitabh<\/b>: people who wanna get the iphone but r not on att
\nAmitabh<\/b>: u can only imagine the business that wd bring to att
\nAmitabh<\/b>: \ud83d\ude09
\nKunal<\/b>: why do that when people will willingly pay themselves and come to them!
\nAmitabh<\/b>: \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Turns out, I wasn’t way off the mark as John Gruber<\/a> linked to this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Interpret’s survey also bodes well for AT&T. Half the buyers switched from another carrier. Of those, 35% paid an average $167 to break a contract.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

167 dollars average to break the contract – that’s a third of the cost of the 4 GB iPhone, not a trivial amount by any means.<\/p>\n

Obviously, people want it, and want it bad – and that’s because their current phones suck. Considering all expenses (phone + activation + commitment + early termination, if any), an iPhone will set you back by around 2000 USD over 2 years – if you stay within the “free minutes” or whatever they call it in the US.<\/p>\n

It might be the “most expensive phone in the world” – but the customers are happy to pay for it and Apple + AT&T are obviously happy with it’s success. Everybody wins? Try telling that to Steve Ballmer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sample this conversation over IM with Amitabh last week: Amitabh: u know apple shd come up with an offer that they will pay for all early terminations Amitabh: people who wanna get the iphone but r not on att Amitabh: u can only imagine the business that wd bring to att Amitabh: \ud83d\ude09 Kunal: whyContinue reading “500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-humor","category-mobile","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunaldua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}