I was considering buying one of these for my mom for Xmas, but I"m having second thoughts on the principal of apple conducting business in a bad manner.

HelveticaI was considering buying one of these for my mom for Xmas, but I"m having second thoughts on the principal of apple conducting business in a bad manner.

How is this bad business?

They basically want to stop the flow of the iPhone to europe. There are two reason they are doing this:

1. First off this means that people make a business out of it, which is really not really that bad.
2. The real reason: The phone will hit Europe in the beginning of Nov. They want to force the Europeans to go to T-Mobile and Orange to buy the phone.

I hat a talk with a T-Mobile store manager here in Berlin. He said that the phone will only be available with select contracts and you will not be able to buy the phone at a premium WITHOUT a contract (as you could with every other phone).

The reason T-Mobile got the deal was simple. They offered a feature (he did not specify which one) which Vodafone was not willing to supply.

cheers
DS

12 months down the line the phone bugs and faults would have become fully realised and revised out of production, the product itself will no doubt be cheaper as well as available factory unlocked so just chill out and wait for Apple to bow to the consumer demands rather than feeding the Apple marketing ego.

When these phones hit the $99.95 range I will be all over it.:rockout:

Agreed Giletus. If I had 600 bucks, Id be buying computer hardware out the yin yang <G>