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From: Steve Firth on 4 May 2008 09:54

Sort of.

According to The Register both O2 and Carphone Warehouse have sold out
of 8Gb iPhones and that CW has also sold out of 16Gb iPhones. It looks
as if Apple is clearing/has cleared stock in anticipation of sames of
the 3G iPhone. The Register naughtiliy suggests that Apple are
deliberately causing shortages, and subtle promotion of the new iPhone
in order to create another headline grabbing feeding frenzy.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/02/cw_iphone_elimination/
From: Clive Sinclair on 4 May 2008 17:11
Steve Firth wrote:
> Sort of.
>
> According to The Register both O2 and Carphone Warehouse have sold out
> of 8Gb iPhones and that CW has also sold out of 16Gb iPhones. It looks
> as if Apple is clearing/has cleared stock in anticipation of sames of
> the 3G iPhone. The Register naughtiliy suggests that Apple are
> deliberately causing shortages, and subtle promotion of the new iPhone
> in order to create another headline grabbing feeding frenzy.
>
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/02/cw_iphone_elimination/

I guess they have taken the ide from car manufacturers - who do exaclty
the same when they are about to release a new model - look how many
'face lifts' cars get these days. It's not a new practice.

--
Clive

We don't die, we just stop paying taxes.
From: Gordon on 5 May 2008 05:05
On May 4, 2:54 pm, %ste...(a)malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:
> Sort of.
>
> According to The Register both O2 and Carphone Warehouse have sold out
> of 8Gb iPhones and that CW has also sold out of 16Gb iPhones. It looks
> as if Apple is clearing/has cleared stock in anticipation of sames of
> the 3G iPhone. The Register naughtiliy suggests that Apple are
> deliberately causing shortages, and subtle promotion of the new iPhone
> in order to create another headline grabbing feeding frenzy.
>
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/02/cw_iphone_elimination/

A 3G iPhone, especially one with built in GPS (real GPS, not the take
a guess system in the current model) is a far more compelling device
than the old iPhone is, and as I've got 6 months or so left on my
current phone contract whatever is on the cards for the iPhone will be
an option when the time to upgrade comes. But I'd still have real
misgivings about switching to O2 for the iPhone. I quit O2 in the
first place because the reception around here is horrid.

Come on Apple, make the new iPhone network agnostic please!
From: Flavio Matani on 6 May 2008 17:46
Roger Merriman <NEWS(a)wodger.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>
> not going to happen though, mind you what happens when the contract runs
> out could one not legally ask for the iphone to be unlocked?

I think you're right on that one.. not going to happen. Not yet, at any
rate...

On the second point, that is a very interesting one. I s'pose the
networks might agree to unlock it for a fee as they do now, but -are
they able and allowed to do it, or is it up to Apple? Hm, interesting...


--
flavio matani
guitar tuition
homepage.mac.com/flavio_matani/guitar/
www.livejournal.com/users/flavius_m/
From: Flavio Matani on 6 May 2008 17:52
Clive Sinclair <clive(a)cs.com> wrote:

> Steve Firth wrote:
> > Sort of.
> >
> > According to The Register both O2 and Carphone Warehouse have sold out
> > of 8Gb iPhones and that CW has also sold out of 16Gb iPhones. It looks
> > as if Apple is clearing/has cleared stock in anticipation of sames of
> > the 3G iPhone. The Register naughtiliy suggests that Apple are
> > deliberately causing shortages, and subtle promotion of the new iPhone
> > in order to create another headline grabbing feeding frenzy.
> >
> > http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/02/cw_iphone_elimination/
>
> I guess they have taken the ide from car manufacturers - who do exaclty
> the same when they are about to release a new model - look how many
> 'face lifts' cars get these days. It's not a new practice.

They get far fewer face lifts than cars -or, American cars, at any rate,
used to get in the '50s and '60s (growing up in Venezuela in those days,
as a kid you would keep up with the changes in current models of those
-European cars were sort of more remote, literally as well as
figuratively speaking). They often looked completely different from one
year to the next, yet they were pretty much the same car inside. That
doesn't happen quite like that now.

--
flavio matani
guitar tuition
homepage.mac.com/flavio_matani/guitar/
www.livejournal.com/users/flavius_m/
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