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Fine print sucks, and here’s why. If you pay close attention to Apple’s new rate plan schedule for the iPhone, you’ll notice some interesting fine print at the bottom of the chart. As far as we can tell, the fine print basically stipulates that those of you hoping to get a brand new iPhone and use it as a WiFi-enabled iPod (without the calling features) can, well, just keep on hoping. The thing is, that little piece of text next to the asterisk (*) makes it so you will not be getting an iPhone without a 2-year service agreement with AT&T. And that, people, is how you turn a marketing phenomenon into a cash cow!
We’ll have to wait and see what this means for current AT&T post-paid and AT&T GoPhone (pre-paid) customers. It’s likely that current AT&T post-paid (bound to a service contract) will have their service agreement “clock” reset to 2-years upon registering the iPhone. And we’d love to see the iPhone being offered on a GoPhone plan with the purchase of the $20 monthly iPhone Data Plan – but, as with soo many things iPhone, we’ll just have to wait and see. (We’re really getting tired of saying that)
[Via: TUAW]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
