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Cellular carriers have no power here

Apple can just release their phone as an unlocked phone, not tied to any service. Buyers would just do the same as buying an unlocked phone, drop the SIM card from your current phone in and off you go.

The only advantage of making a phone tied to a cellular carrier is that the carrier would discount the price of the phone heavily (to be offset by service fees). Here, since Apple has already shown they can sell iPods for $300 to $400, there's no need for a discount.

---there the feeling is that if users are willing to pay ridiculous prices for daft ringtones, that they?ll be willing to pay ridiculous prices for music too---

The problem with this thinking is that most people are willing to buy one ringtone, maybe 2 or 3 over time, whereas most people have thousands of songs in their collection. So it's not the same market and the pricing is not going to be the same.

Posted by: tic swayback   Posted on: 11/15/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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