"Gavin" <gavin@mindless.com> wrote in message
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>>Would you like to hear the price of my first mobile phone, an old OKI that
>>I
>>bought in 1993? And the cost of the MicroTac that I bought after that (it
>>must have been in 1994)?
>>
>>The point is: the new iPod costs $600.
>
> No the point is when did you last buy a phone, there almost always
> subsidised, heck most people balk at spending £50 on a new mobile

Hi Gavin,

If you want to put it under the "last purchase" point of view, then you have
to compare it to when you (or me, or anyone) bought a truly innovative
product, where the price is of secondary importnace. After all, there have
been many mp3 players at bargain prices for a while on the market, but a
large amount of people decided to forgo that extra £50 in favour of an iPod.
With the iPhone, Apple announced a cracking product, and I would expect
people to react in the very same way.


> And the UK data charges mean it will never be used as an interent
> applicane to any grea degree or you'll get stuffed by the phone co.

WiFi is free, if you have an access point at home and one at work; nearly
free if you don't. For what concerns mobile telecoms, things will have to
change "soon", and they will.


> Jobs has said he does not want this subsidised by the phone co's as he
> does not want it to hit ipod sales.

I read (I think on The Register) that he plans to roll it out on Cingular on
a 24 months contract, which it will be a win-win situation: for him and
Cingular, of course :-)


> No it looks like OSX and runs some osx programs,
>
> Doesn't mean it is Osx, jsut something that;'s running specific apps

I don't know about it, but Nokia is already working on Linux platforms, OSX
mobile might do the same. I am looking forward to seeing iton the market.