Anyone jump at the chance to get a lower priced Iphone?
 

Curious anyone else got one?

Today I took the plunge, when I found out that Apple/ATT lowered the price I took the bait and bought the a new 8g Iphone still trying to figure it out what I can do on it.

I have AT&T service but it is to a Blackberry due to my job.

My wife has a camera phone. She has held and played with an iphone and thinks they are cool but she is totally lost with high tech gadgets so it would be no use to her.

If at some point they come down in price to under $300 and I have about ten other things in priority ahead of it then I would probably get her one so I can play with it!!!

I have heard that it's downside is that the battery will only recharge a few hundred times then you have to replace it and it is very expensive.

No for 2 reasons-

$59 a month plan is steep for me.

No AT&T in my service area.

(it is a jobber with poor service)

They lowered the 4g model to 299 if you can find one. I have had the blackberry, a Treo and now this, the Iphone by far is the easiest PDA ever and most likely the easiest phone. Can't go wrong with it.

The battery life is about 400 charges, or 1 every 2 days or so, it should last 2 year. Then you have to send it back to Apple for a change and $79 for a new battery.

I love it so far.

I got used to pay over 100 so it wasnt the money that kept me from doing it.

Have you kept up with Apple Stock lately, burying Microsoft in growth. Yes, I know Apple computers are a niche market, but they do make innovative products and this Iphone will be the new Standard as was the Mac in the early 80's.

They almost were bankrupt a few years ago and MS had to bail them out. I think M$ owns 35% of Apple.

I understand the profit margin is huge on the products and they had a real strong lead with iPhone and now Touch iPod and the new Nano in time to ramp up for Christmas should carry them well into next year with profits.

How much of Apple does MS own:


Technically, nothing. In 2003, Microsoft bought 150,000 non-voting shares of Apple stock as a token gesture of encourgaging competition. If they were voting shares, that would be about 0.04%.


From Apple's 2003 SEC filing:

"In August 1997, the Company and Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) entered into patent cross license and technology agreements. In addition, Microsoft purchased 150,000 shares of Apple Series A nonvoting convertible preferred stock ("preferred stock") for $150 million. These shares were convertible by Microsoft after August 5, 2000, into shares of the Company's common stock at a conversion price of $8.25 per share. During 2000, 74,250 shares of preferred stock were converted to 9 million shares of the Company's common stock. During 2001, the remaining 75,750 preferred shares were converted into 9.2 million shares of the Company's common stock."

If I had $10K to invest, I would buy Apple, but since they don't have Cingular/ATT service here, I can not get an iPhone.....