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I'm going to go and demand they unlock the first generation iPhone I bought the fist day they were released (for the full $600 price) just on principle. Still a
by po 15y ago
I'm going to go and demand they unlock the first generation iPhone I bought the fist day they were released (for the full $600 price) just on principle. Still a bit annoyed that it was locked since it wasn't subsidized at all, although I knew what I was getting in to.
- w1ntermute 15y ago> Still a bit annoyed that it was locked since it wasn't subsidized at all Wasn't the original iPhone (at release) $600 with contract?
- watmough 15y agoWhy yes, yes it was. Mine still works, and is currently playing BBC Radio 4 in the other room. I think I will go get it unlocked. This is great news from AT&T, but kind of exasperating, since I splashed out $702 for an unlocked iPhone 4S exactly so I could didn't have to pay vastly more money to end up with an iPod Touch / paperweight at the end of a 2-year contract. I imagine that this scenario, plus the fact that other carriers will do an unlock 'for overseas' (nudge-nudge wink-wink) has driven AT&T into recognizing that they will lose many many customers, unless they start unlocking.
- po 15y agokind of... It was 'with contract' in that you had to bring it home and activate it with ATT. There were no other options. As far as I know, Apple wasn't paying any subsidies to ATT at that time. That was part of how they could drop the price a few months later. I believe it was only after the next model came out that they started paying subsidies to ATT. That was how they got the price to 299 and 199.