Things you can buy instead of an iPhone

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aphex

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Originally posted by: ultimatebob
If you include the cheapest $59.99/mo service plan for the minimum two year service contract, that iPhone is going to cost you at least $1,940 before taxes.

Think of what you can get with THAT!

Your logic is flawed, every cell phone needs service.
 

lupi

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Originally posted by: aphex
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: ultimatebob
If you include the cheapest $59.99/mo service plan for the minimum two year service contract, that iPhone is going to cost you at least $1,940 before taxes.

Think of what you can get with THAT!</end quote></div>

Your logic is flawed, every cell phone needs service.

Yeah, but $60 a month is almost what I pay for both of my phones, one of them being a unlimited email/internet berry.
 

Conky

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Originally posted by: aphex
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: ultimatebob
If you include the cheapest $59.99/mo service plan for the minimum two year service contract, that iPhone is going to cost you at least $1,940 before taxes.

Think of what you can get with THAT!</end quote></div>

Your logic is flawed, every cell phone needs service.
But not $60 a month minimum. Most plans start at $30 a month and go up from there.

People who buy iPhones deserve ridicule on multiple levels.



 

imported_Imp

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Entire set of motorcycle gear. Just spent about that much to learn, feeling good...like a responsible spender...
 

xanis

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Let's see....

- Fix the AC in my car ($460 left over)
- Xbox 360 + 2 Games ($180 left over)

Those are the two most obvious ones that I'd buy in place of an iPhone.


 

CKent

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Originally posted by: luv2liv
2 ounces of weed is $600????

Super high quality stuff can fetch almost that much for one oz. Drug war ftl.
 

Jawo

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Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens ;)
Canon 70-300mm f/4-5.5 IS USM
22" widescreen monitor
Adobe CS3 academic version (x2)
Mountain Bike
180 gallons of gas (@$3.25 gallon)
Year of car insurance
 

andylawcc

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Originally posted by: Kaido
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
600 small fries from McDonalds.</end quote></div>

To put in the back of your LeBaron :laugh:

hahhaa
 

andylawcc

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Conky
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: aphex
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: ultimatebob
If you include the cheapest $59.99/mo service plan for the minimum two year service contract, that iPhone is going to cost you at least $1,940 before taxes.

Think of what you can get with THAT!</end quote></div>

Your logic is flawed, every cell phone needs service.</end quote></div>But not $60 a month minimum. Most plans start at $30 a month and go up from there.

People who buy iPhones deserve ridicule on multiple levels.

no reasonable person will settle with the lowest plan. 30 bucks a month will fetch you like 200 minutes. I don't talk alot and I still need the 49.99 a month with 450 minutes.

imo, the iphone plans are very reasonable.
 

Imaginer

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A nice LCD monitor!

Seriously, I do not see what the big gaga is about the iPhone. Sure the thing is one big whole touch screen but if you look at what the core of it all is, its a PHONE!

Most phones have their 5 keypad brailled so you know where it is and you can dial without looking.... iPhone? Not for the blind!

Perhaps it maybe closer to the all in one device as we know it but that is just way too much for something so novel right now.