Although I agree that the price difference is staggering, the important metric to measure these phones by is depreciation. If the iPhone user can sell that iPho

Although I agree that the price difference is staggering, the important metric to measure these phones by is depreciation. If the iPhone user can sell that iPhone for a few hundred dollars at the end of those two years (I certainly have), then the cost of using the phone isn't that high. On the Android side I'm pretty sure depreciation is quite fast. Additionally, the figures pointed out in this article are totals of the Voice&Data plans tied to the iPhones by AT&T. These are costs of a minimum iPhone service as deemed by AT&T, and not a cost of the iPhone itself.