Unlocked iPhones costs triple
When is an unlocked iPhone worth nearly $1,500 ? When T-Mobile start selling them in their German outlets for 999 Euros.
T-Mobile announced yesterday that they would be selling unlocked iPhones alongside their locked, contracted version. This follows a European court injunction preventing the sale of only locked iPhones.
Who said customer was king? Not in this case it seems. Apple may be making a fortune from their “One carrier, one country ,” policy, but at the end of the day the customer is the loser.
Fifteen hundred dollars for an iPhone is insane. The European injunction made no mention of pricing, so this announcement by T-Mobile basically says, OK, you want an unlocked iPhone, just pay us the amount of money we would have made from a two year contract and you can have one.”
Most interesting is that T-Mobile feel they deserve the profit regardless of whether they provide the service and that they expect to make considerably more money from the contract than the sale of the phone.
I can already see dozens of Eastern European mobsters rubbing their hand with glee, wondering how much they can undercut this price by and still make a fortune. I’ve already ordered my Slovenian iPhone.
Zdravljica !
