So AT&T just released the calling plans for the iPhone. They’re $60 (450 minutes talk time), $80 (900 minutes talk time), and $100 (1350 minutes talk time). (BTW, I’m rounding up the penny) All have unlimited data plans (very wise), but critical levels may never be achieved with that slow EDGE network. If you figure people will be spending $500 to $600 on the iPhone (again, I’m rounding up the dollar), buyers of the iPhone will be committed for two years (that’s the contract requirement) to spending somewhere between $1940 and $3000 to use a first generation phone from a company that has no experience building phones. And that’s before you purchase any applications, monthly service fees for those applications, and after market products. Wow!
Actually, Engadget did a very exhaustive price breakdown of all the costs associated with purchasing an iPhone and in relation to the other smartphones it’s not as horrifically more expensive. Although I don’t think they factored in the discounted prices of the other phones in their cost analysis. Still, check it out. According to their price comparison, the BlackJack is the best deal. But from a productivity perspective, no one is going to gain any business productivity from the iPhone from that pointless keyboard.
I’d like to interview those iPhone buyers 1 year after the purchase of their phone and see if buyer’s remorse has set in.
