“Apple is widely expected to unveil a brand-new iPhone next month, and could be working with retailers to clear out its remaining inventory of the about-to-be-outdated model,” Sutton reports. “At the new price, customers will save $100 on Apple’s smart phone, which currently sells for $199.”
MacDailyNews Note: Wal-Mart currently sells the 16GB iPhone 3GS for $197.
Sutton continues, “‘It is our commitment to always lead on price,’ Mehrdad Akbar, Wal-Mart’s senior category director for wireless, in a prepared statement about the price change. Apple sold 8.3 million iPhones last quarter, more than twice the amount sold during the same period a year ago.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Here we go!
[Attribution danfrakes via Twitter. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Guess it’s true:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/iPhone-3GS-16GB-Black-Phone-price-based-on-new-line-activation-or-eligible-upgrade-with-2-year-contract/11308933#ProductDetail
@ChrissyOne
Hmm, Republicans love sick, stupid people with no economic hope. So that’s why they (stereotypically) back policies that limit government health care (ignoring W for now), reduce public school funding, and reduce government programs to help the poor.
While this, on some level, does agree with a preferred theory of mine, rational irrationality, I think your argument is shaky, and you (shudder, shudder) might have done a little GroupThink.
Or maybe a little satire.
This might be a reason to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS, if you can buy the iPhone and not sign up for a plan there.
If you are a type of consumer who likes to do such things (shame on you).
Satire? Satire?! You? That’s a first.
I’m trying to break out of my stoic, button-down image.
Good luck with that. Hey, why don’t you buy an iPad? It might help loosen you up.
Another one? Hey, that’s actually a great idea!
OK….here is their health plan
http://walmartstores.com/careers/7750.aspx
The non-union part I’ll take as a plus, since that is more money in the employees pocket (I’ve been union before (electrical), and I’ve been fired for not being union (Teamsters))
The low education is probably right, which means having a job at all is a blessing.
But I also think just having a job is not terms for advancement, but working for a corporation as large as Wal-Mart actually guarantees more chance for advancement…..especially if you have all your teeth. OK, most of them.
Now, by PC rule, shouldn’t the description you gave (C1) make them the poster children for the left, rather than their favorite dart board?
I know, it’s all in jest….But there are quite a few ‘low-wage drones’ working at Wal-Mart that are friends and relatives of mine.
Poor fools….
@C1
I am sure with 2 iPads will get so much more work done too. I triple-dog dare you.
Okay, I think I should stop hijacking these comments now.
Whither goes China, so goes Walmart. China will be the next economy to crack in the next 5 years or so. Karnak told me. Or was that Nostradamus?
The union part was just for you, TT.
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if there werent unions, then there would be more than enough jobs in this country for everyone including the illegals. Low-paying jobs, but at least people would be employed.
Hey, rick.
And if there were more unions, the UAW wouldn’t be alone in laying off workers.
I trust employers to do what’s right for people, because they always do what’s right without any kind of regulation or oversight.
@ TT
“I know, it’s all in jest….But there are quite a few ‘low-wage drones’ working at Wal-Mart that are friends and relatives of mine.”
Considering the stuff I read on this board regarding my last 2 employers, forgive me if I snicker mightily at your indignation.
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Two shay…we ride together!
and the indignation was just for you!
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We are, all of us, made of star stuff.
“We’re only particles of change, I know
Orbiting around the sun”