Apple's Tim Cook: iPhone is not "just for the rich"

0. phoneArena posted on 28 Feb 2011, 17:47

Apple COO Tim Cook hinted at a cheaper version of the iPhone when he told a Bernstein Research analyst that the Cupertino based firm's iconic handset is not produced just for rich people; Cook also hinted that Apple will be coming up with a phone for the pre-paid market...

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1. 530gemini posted on 28 Feb 2011, 18:49 3 2

This is great news. Then this will be a head to head rivalry between Apple and Google.

8. JeffdaBeat posted on 28 Feb 2011, 20:47 0 6

There is a $49 iPhone at AT&T...they sell messaging phones that cost more than that (Pantech Laser). How much cheaper can it get?

14. ricking posted on 01 Mar 2011, 06:46 3 1

READ THE AD... LESS THAN $200 "OFF" CONTRACT

16. msa1988 posted on 01 Mar 2011, 08:01 4 1

Jeff, are you completely retarded? Do you not read articles before you post? This is not the first time you have posted something completely wrong simply because you did not read properly.

That iPhone must be killing your braincells..

18. BaiGanyo posted on 01 Mar 2011, 15:00 0 0

He's an idiot that works for ATT. What do you expect. He believes everything they tell him and never knows what he's talking about and doesn't do any research on his own.

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2. Hello-dirt posted on 28 Feb 2011, 19:08 2 3

Crazy to think that Apple is taking a lesson from Samsung. Distribute to everyone and keep churning out way better products each year (we all know that Apple only churns out slightly better products) so that more money can be made. Will apple go the way of krispy creme donuts and cheapen the product by placing it in every store?

3. The_Omega_Man (unregistered) posted on 28 Feb 2011, 19:24 2 3

They already have, look at the ipad and ipod!

Also many of apples iphone parts come from the very same manufactures that they now find themselves competing against. So I would not say that the quality is better, generally.

12. BaiGanyo posted on 01 Mar 2011, 00:57 3 2

Within a year, the main iphone sales will be plastic models wrapped in saran wrap at the cash register of every Dollar General in the country. Pathetic. Are they that desperate to move units after the verizon iphone flopped so bad?

4. lollipop posted on 28 Feb 2011, 19:32 1 2

This is more reminiscent of the ipod. You have different versions of the ipod and it seems they are going to do the same to the iPhone.

5. KIANO posted on 28 Feb 2011, 19:36 2 2

That's great news for those who are on prepaid plan. And also good news for youth or those who don't qualify contract plan.
It will be interesting to see competiton between iOS and Android. Cheaper iPhone means an avalanche market share. Apple may experience an insane growth perhaps in Africa & Asia. There are millions if not billions who don't have contract plan. Good business strategy for Apple.

6. he_who_knows_better (unregistered) posted on 28 Feb 2011, 19:45 4 3

Common Sense: iPhone is "just for stupid"!

7. Poop Crappington Shitsworth (unregistered) posted on 28 Feb 2011, 20:10 2 2

I like this.

9. CRICKETownz posted on 28 Feb 2011, 21:06 5 2

Good idea...now if those 27" powerful iMacs would come down to $600 & i would very ecstatic.

10. El-iPhone (unregistered) posted on 28 Feb 2011, 21:25 1 1

That's what I'm talking about it Holaaa

13. Eingild (unregistered) posted on 01 Mar 2011, 05:03 1 2

Good for us. Here in our country, pre-paid plans are more common than postpaid ones. Reaching for a new group of consumers is not a bad move. If this turns out to be true, I could finally own an iPhone. Well, a cheaper version though.

15. protozeloz posted on 01 Mar 2011, 07:32 1 1

maybe this is why the wanted that integrated sim and that service

17. ZayZay posted on 01 Mar 2011, 14:11 1 0

I see bums on the street with this phone. It must have already hit the broke catagory. People go into debt to have this phone with really expensive service as well as charging up there credit cards just to get Ipads. I don't understand!!!

19. BaiGanyo posted on 01 Mar 2011, 15:02 0 0

So if the ifraud 4 is selling so well, what are these "leftover" parts they have laying around. This just sounds stupid.

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