iPhone: The $1,975 iPod

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iPhone: The $1,975 iPod
Apple's and AT&T's high-price gadget is a heartbreaking triumph of greed over genius

By Tom Yager

July 10, 2007

Every living thing knows about iPhone. Apple and AT&T saw to that in their unprecedented campaign to prime demand for a mobile device that has been dubbed "revolutionary" and "game changing." After nine days doing

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[tara_2_tara]

I think the iPhone is dreamy and wanted one since the first time I laid eyes on that damned commercial! Once it came out I couldn't stop making annoying comments to my husband about getting one. I thought hey, he could get one too and we could do the family plan! Yeeeeah....did you glance at the family plan? $80 I thought was pretty normal for a family plan. But then you read in the fine print that you have to have two lines (duh) and that the second line would cost an extra ....$30? I think it was. I was like....whaaa? So basically we'd be looking at $100 a month just to have an iPhone on top of the $600 per phone! I don't know if this is a standard rate for Blackberries and other PDA types, but I thought that was a bit misleading and friggin expensive! Yet with all of that...deep down, I'd still love to have an iPhone - just not the big monthly bill! :D