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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 07:30 AM EDT |
Low price? I think that the full list price of the original iPhone was something
incredibly ridiculous, like $699.00, and that was after AT&T was basically
subsidizing the cost of the phone through the cost of the data plan. The only
people that I knew that were buying them back then were young people who
"had to be seen as hip" by their friends and who still lived at their
parents home and thus had tons of disposable income. My niece was one of them.
She had just gotten her first job out of high school and to her it was
"more money than she had ever dreamed of making". She lived at home
with her parents and within the first 6 months on the job she had a car and a
new iPhone, and then she realized that after her monthly data plan payment and
her monthly car loan payment, she didn't have much money left. She continued
living with her parents until her car was paid off and her 2 year iPhone plan
contract was over, and then she replaced her iPhone with a more basic phone and
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 09:35 AM EDT |
"... how Apple got the cost down ..." I do recall Apple products
manufacturing requires production which is something akin to slave labor.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 10:25 AM EDT |
Apple took a bunch of previously well-known ideas and combined them very
effectively. There was nothing like the iPhone before the iPhone. However,
there were lots of things that embodied a subset of the features that come in an
iPhone before the iPhone came out. Like rounded corner rectangles.
Creating a novel combination of 50 common items should in no way provide any
sort of IP ownership of the individual, pre-existing common items.
Apple's design patent is embarrassingly bad to have been granted in the first
place.
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