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October 31, 2007

You must have a Credit Card to buy an Iphone

Filed under: General — Kyle M Brown @ 12:00 am

If you want to buy an Iphone , be sure to have your credit card and dont expect to buy more than 2 of them.

People looking to walk into an Apple retailer and buy an iPhone with cash will be out of luck. The company is now accepting only credit or debit card payments for the devices so they can track who purchases the phone, according to an employee at the Apple Store in New York’s SoHo neighborhood.

Looks like AT&T has a few Apple Iphone subscribers missing.

Apple’s public relations team did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the new policy. However, it’s no secret the company is trying to stem the tide of unlocked and resold phones, now totaling about 250,000.

the difference between the number of handsets sold — approximately 1.4 million — and those actually connecting via AT&T Wireless

This has got to hurt! I wonder how much it would have cost to develop a phone without any locks to unlock. Less than 4.5 Million I bet. And all this time we thought it was the other evil Guy (M$) that made these types of mistakes.

Apple receives US$18 per iPhone per month from AT&T Wireless, based on iPhone-related revenue Apple reported in its latest quarterly earnings, totaling more than $4.5 million in lost revenue.

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