“It looks like Apple Inc.’s iPhone may soon be headed to Canada, although not in time for the holidays,” Catherine McLean reports for The Globe and Mail Update
“Molson Dry beer is giving away iPhones, valued at $800 [Canadian], as one of a number of prizes in a marketing contest. The rules note that the iPhones will only be available as of January 2008 on the wireless network of Rogers Communications Inc. While winners will get the cool new cellphones for free, they will need to pay for the service themselves,” McLean reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Shawn P.” for the heads up.]
Canadians won’t pay $800 for an iPhone when they can cross the border and buy one for less than 399 C$. But the data rates charged by Rogers are way higher than US rates right now.
So few will subscribe to Rogers at current high exorbitant rates. Finance minister Flaherty is jawboning prices down to match US prices and IMHO Ted Rogers & Co s/b ashamed of themselves for their data rates. As an Apple shareholder but non cell phone user, I think Canadians should write Flaherty and copy Rogers to tell them what they think of unconscionably high Canadian wireless rates, assuming Rogers is going to be the carrier of choice for Apple. Canadians are sick of being rogered.
I just priced an iMac 24″, 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM, 1TB, AppleCare:
Apple Canada Store: CAD$3,913.00
Apple Canada Educational Store: CAD$3,658.00
Apple.com (US): USD$3,618.00
Why?
iPod Nano is NOT the same price in Canada:
Canada 4GB – $169 CAD
USA 4GB – $149 CAD
Canada 8GB – $219 CAD
USA 8GB – $199 CAD
Wooooo Hooooooo Steve! Still want to suck those hairy toes, man. Woooooooo hooooooo!
Fair suck of the sav!
There’s only one ridgy-didge beer in the world, and that’s [url=”http://www.coopers.com.au/beer.php?id=127&pid=1″]Coopers Sparkling Ale/a>
… Sorry, but I’m not interested in your Canadian or American lolly water, tried a many of them … Ugh!
Oh, all right <a href=”http://www.pilsner-urquell.com/”>Urquell[/url] runs very, very close as second.
As for the iPhone, can’t wait for it here in Australia, will be able to lookup pubs with Coopers beer, while out on the dusty track.
Thursday norning……Well just as I thought, the story was bogus. Told you so……
Yeah, Molson (idiots) just retracted the prize as part of their contest.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071024.wgtiphonecan1024/BNStory/Technology/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071024.wgtiphonecan1024