“Here’s one reality about the new iPhone that Apple fans might not be so excited about: It might be the priciest iPhone yet,” Harry Bradford reports for The Huffington Post.
“Back in April, Jeffries analyst Peter Misek said Apple was negotiating with carriers to increase the price of the iPhone 6 by $100 compared to the 5s, which starts at $199 with contract,” Bradford reports. “Meanwhile, TechRadar says the new phone could cost more than $800 without a contract. That’s double what the original iPhone cost in 2007, when it wasn’t subsidized by two-year contracts. The 5S starts at $649 without contract.”
“Since the iPhone 3G was unveiled in 2008, new versions of Apple’s smartphone have started at $199 with a contract… (The iPhone 5C is an exception. The cheaper model was unveiled at $99 with contract last September),” Bradford reports. “So a jump to $299 would be pretty shocking.”
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Every time someone says something “might be”, they are also saying that the same something “might not be”.
Apple’s ‘iPhone 6’ *could* come with a harness for your elephant’s saddle.
I heard that won’t be till the 6S.
Living in the future could be a “lot more expensive” than living in the past too. Just shut up and stop guessing moron and take your ADD meds and find out in fact in just a few more days. Slow news day?
I paid nearly $500 for a 1st gen 32GB iPod in 2002. Silly me!
I paid $499 for a 1st gen 5GB iPod in 2001. What a goose!
Could be, but won’t be.
My typical investment is $399 for 64BG… If they go to 128GB for $499, then although they have increased the cost by $100 they have also doubled the storage. I heard 32GB will be missing.
16GB $299
32GB ($399)?
64GB $399 ($499)?
128GB $499 ($599/$699)??
The higher end phones would not then experience any price increase at all, and the people going for the 16GB would brunt the price increase. However that’s only if they eliminate the 32 GB phone. If they keep it and shuffle the price increase all the way down, then I am not so sure. I would totally go for 128GB for $100 more. Regardless I will spend $500, 64GB or 128GB no matter what happens.
Maybe the 4.7 inch phone will not see a price increase at all, and the 5.5 inch will be $100 more in the same storage configuration. Physically I am fine on 64GB, I float right around 40GB usage, with media and photos.
“…That’s double what the original iPhone cost in 2007, when it wasn’t subsidized by two-year contracts.”…
That phrase tells me that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
The original iPhone was subsidised by AT&T. You had to sign a two-year contract, and you had to sign up for a data plan. The unlimited-all data plan was $20 on top of your voice plan of choice (cheapest at the time was $40). You would pay $500 up-front, and AT&T would subsidise the rest of retail price. The subsidy was some $12 per month (about half of what it is these days), bringing the total retail price of the original iPhone close to $800. Apple reduced the initial price by $100 a few months later, but the subsidy model hadn’t changed until the release of iPhone 3G, when they adopted the conventional model ($22 per month subsidy, with the balance up-front, equaling some $200 for the base model).
If I remember right, the first iPhone was $599 with a 2-year contract. I know, I paid it. A few months later it was dropped to $399 and (after a huge backlash from us suckers) Apple reluctantly gave a $100 store credit to early adopters.
$800, unsubsidized, without a plan? That’s the most expensive phone in the world, and it doesn’t appeal to business customers, because it doesn’t have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine.
….Perhaps what you really mean to say is that you are older and have had difficult time adapting to the touch screen for email. Meanwhile everyone under 40 can type email faster than you via touch screen. Business users care MOST about security and yes keyboard was big issue like back in 2009. Blackberry had a chance to ride that wave but failed. The battle for business today is same as consumer, Apple vs Android.
Scott …. applepostle was quoting Steve Ballmer ….
Thanks, Bob. Maybe I should have ended with “Sent from my iPhone”?
LOL- always someone who falls for these type comments if you “forget” to add the “/s” at the end!
Ahhhh well see now I look stupid because I didn’t follow stupid. Thanks for point out my ignorance, I’ll take my bruised ego and sit in the corner.
Just laugh it off. 😉
I like our strategy, I like it a lot.
The punch line! I never get tired of that joke!
Gee, a bigger phone might cost more than a smaller phone. Ya think?
It’s there just the remotest amount logic to that? Did you REALLY expect to get a 5.5″ phone for the price of a 4″ phone?
Some people…
A smaller iPod nano cost more (per GB) than the regular-sized one.
I wonder if next year, an iPhone mini (4″) version will come out.
TechRadar = lame news site.
TechRadar is in news business for the money. Now he wants some share of the pre-viral iPhone 6 clickable links.
Shame on TechRadar.
How does this compare with the incentives that control the operations of this site? Pot, meet kettle. The internet was long ago ruined by advertisers. Wikipedia and educational sites are really the only ones who deliver services without clickbaiting or datamining.
TechRadar is notoriously quick to find any way to criticise Apple products, while lauding anything that isn’t Apple.
Why would $299 be shocking? There are Android phones that started at that price!
I heard a rumor the A8 is 128 bit! It may not be though.
Apple typically maintains it’s price points while improving technology. Even if they are more expensive, I doubt the price would increase more than $100 for each model.