[IP] Re: Several AT&T Stores Forced Customers to Buy Accessories With iPhone - Gizmodo

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Bob Frankston <bob37-2@bobf.frankston.com>
Date: June 30, 2007 11:45:26 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net, ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: RE: [IP] Several AT&T Stores Forced Customers to Buy  
Accessories With iPhone - Gizmodo

Given that the rational for a two-year agreement is to cover the cost  
of subsidizing the purchase of the phone – is $600 really represent  
the same kind of discount that prices a MotoQ at $100? Or often a  
Razr at $0? Or has the just-so story about subsidizing the phone done  
its job and we now just accept it as a normal part of paying for the  
ability to communicate? Best to think of it as an $775 phone with a  
refund if you manage to last out two years at $*’s per month.

Of course they also have the chutzpah to charge for the cost of  
complying with telecom laws – why not break out the cost of complying  
with other laws?

From: David Farber [mailto:dave@farber.net]
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 23:25
To: ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: [IP] Several AT&T Stores Forced Customers to Buy Accessories  
With iPhone - Gizmodo


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