30% Apple

[richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)]

On Feb 18, 2011, at 7:42 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> 
> Although you can buy an iphone without a contract, you can't sign up for
> AT&T or Verizon wireless without a contract.

Your statement about AT&T is false.  You can purchase iPhones at AT&T and Apple retail (brick and mortar) locations without contracts, and AT&T GoPhone SIMs work just fine in these units.

I do not know what Verizon's offerings are at this time.

> If your definition of policy is what apple wrote in their official written
> policy, then it's not a new policy.
> If your definition of policy is what parts of the written policy apple makes
> a policy of enforcing, then it is a new policy. 

Neither the policy nor the enforcement is new.  Apple has been enforcing this policy since mid-2009.  What has changed is that Apple is now being stricter about that enforcement.

So, again, please base your hate on facts, not hyperbole.  Thank you.

--Rich P.