superchunk said:
Since all phones are subsidized... who the hell looks at the full price? Common denominator is the contract price. I know exactly zero people, in person, who buy at full price. This is all coworkers, friends, family, etc... and probably over 95% of them have smartphones of all flavors (even one with WP). Hell even my sister with T-Mobile still sells her old iphone for like $200 to get the new one.. so even her's is kind of a subsidized price. |
not sure if i had this discussion with you or anyone else but just because everyone in usa has a contract doesn't mean that this is the same for the whole world. so, usa is not the world. as example here in germany we often buy the phone without contract and use prepaid system or something we can change whenever we want. or we get a contract with a cheap phone and pay 10 bucks less per month for 24 months which makes it 240 bucks cheaper.
