FFR
Well-known member
I, too, remember the first iPhone costing around $600. A co-worker purchased one and there were no monthly plans for it at the time.
Thats what I remember at least, not $450.
That 600 dollars was also the subsidized price with a 2 year contract. which was mandatory for activation with Cingular at the time.
Competitors such as palm, Motorola, Nokia, and. Blackberry were all mocking apple and the iPhone for being too expensive. That didn’t work out well for any of them, since none of them make phones anymore.
There is even a video of Ballmer lambasting the price of the iPhone and the fact that it didn’t have a physical keyboard.
He claimed no one would buy it at that price.