[birdman_38]

Apparently the off contract price of the iPhone 5C is $550, which makes it no less expensive than the iPhone 4.

BlackBerry can breathe a sigh of relief.

[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

I was really worried about the iPhone 5C interrupting sales of BB10 devices.... that was a close one.

[birdman_38]

I was really worried about the iPhone 5C interrupting sales of BB10 devices.... that was a close one.

Not sure if you're poking fun at my OP or BlackBerry 10 sales lol. At any rate, the expectation was that Apple would make a ploy to enter into the low to mid-range market. It seems they aren't prepared to do that yet. Or not equipped, like BlackBerry with BB10.

[garnok]

Apparently the off contract price of the iPhone 5C is $550, which makes it no less expensive than the iPhone 4.

BlackBerry can breathe a sigh of relief.

not only blackberry. samsung, LG, Nokia and many others mobile vendors will overjoyed with this announcement. not feeling threaten in mid end phone market.

it's much better for apple still continue selling the iPhone 5 and offer it with same price as iPhone 5C

i kind of feel sorry for Blackberry because apple and Blackberry have same kind business strategies selling their phone on premium price with mid end specs, but apple get away with it people still craving to buy newest iphone while it is basically almost same phone with their previous phone

but in the end with support from china mobile and ntt docomo japan i think apple will beat their previous iphone sales record

[birdman_38]

i kind of feel sorry for Blackberry because apple and Blackberry have same kind business strategies selling their phone on premium price with mid end specs, but apple get away with it people still craving to buy newest iphone while it is basically almost same phone with their previous phone

Chalk that up to effective marketing.

[anon(5930933)]

Doesn't 'c' stands for cheap?

[Aljean Thein]

$550 is not a low-mid end price in any means. Totally a fail. How much isn't he iPhone 5S off contract

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[garnok]

$550 is not a low-mid end price in any means. Totally a fail. How much isn't he iPhone 5S off contract

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around $100 more than iphone 5C

[jdriggs874]

Are you guys serious??? Let's compare sales in a month. Hell, let's compare sales on launch day.

5s is an unchanged 5? New processor, new motion chip, new camera, and fingerprint ID.

You BB guys are in such denial.

[nuff_said]

I was reading somewhere on Flipboard the on contract price will start at $99. If true it's better prices that the BlackBerry 10 phones and will sell.

[Warcony]

Sadly the 5c will sell just as well at $550 as it would at $450 or even $400. I can see it now, the Apple store workers explaining to 12 year old kids and their parents: "its more expensive then all other phones in its class, but it comes in colours...ooooooooooooohhhh."

[johnenglish]

Not too many people buy phones off contract. It's $99 on a two year, good by all low end non-iOS phones.

[amazinglygraceless]

...and so the Apple Derangement Syndrome begins...

[johnenglish]

I was reading somewhere on Flipboard the on contract price will start at $99. If true it's better prices that the BlackBerry 10 phones and will sell.

Yup, during the keynote they said "$99 on contract and Android free".

[birdman_38]

Not too many people buy phones off contract.

They do for Prepaid.

[scribacco]

I was really worried about the iPhone 5C interrupting sales of BB10 devices.... that was a close one.

Interrupting No sales..that is new to me..how is it even possible?

[scribacco]

$550 is not a low-mid end price in any means. Totally a fail. How much isn't he iPhone 5S off contract

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It was never reported as a cheap phone...Not as a fail as this http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderd...d=yahoobarrons

[birdman_38]

...and so the Apple Derangement Syndrome begins...

ADS? lol

[treaker]

Are you guys serious??? Let's compare sales in a month. Hell, let's compare sales on launch day.

5s is an unchanged 5? New processor, new motion chip, new camera, and fingerprint ID.

You BB guys are in such denial.

Just means people have more money than brains.



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[chosen1_88]

Was hoping for a better off-contract price for the 5C because my wife doesn't get phone subsidies with her plan and she really wanted the ability to use Facetime with family abroad. I was going to get it for her if it was $300-450, but $600 for what is effectively last year's phone is way overpriced. If I wanted a year old phone, I'd just get a Nexus 4 16GB for $250 off contract (she already has a Nexus 4). If I was going to spend $600 on a new phone, I'd take a Q10 or S4.

The iPhone 5C is really the new scarlet letter for stupidity. You know anybody carrying one doesn't know anything about smartphones. If you must have an iPhone, then spend the extra $100 and get the 5S (not that it's much to write home about).

[amazinglygraceless]

ADS? lol

Suddenly I'm glad I didn't call it Apple iPhone Derangement Syndrome (AIDS)

[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

Notice that Apple still doesn't think much of NFC, no NFC chip on the 5s.

[iN8ter]

Apparently the off contract price of the iPhone 5C is $550, which makes it no less expensive than the iPhone 4.

BlackBerry can breathe a sigh of relief.

You completely missed the point. The i5 is going out of production. It's completely replaced by the 5C, which costs less to build and uses largely the same internals (except the FFC is improved). The 5 would have dropped in price a bit, anyways, so there is nothing really surprising about the price. The 5C is actually a much better deal than the 5, since you're basically getting a 16GB i5 for $99 on contract, when otherwise you'd be getting an 8GB model using their old model.

[bradu1]

It was never reported as a cheap phone...Not as a fail as this http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderd...d=yahoobarrons

It's been 'reported' as a cheap phone daily in these threads by all the Apple supporters defending Apple's steady drop in market share by saying once the 5c is here, that will all change...they will be competing with the cheap androids...blah blah blah. Apple completely jumped the shark today.

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[xandermac]

Chalk that up to effective marketing.

Chalk it up to Eco-System. Off to play a little COD strike team on my ipad


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