30% Apple

[jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Jarod Wilson)]

On Feb 18, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Ethan Schwartz wrote:

> http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/confessions-of-an-apple-store-employee?click=pp
> 
> The other annoying topic of conversation is customers looking for unlocked
>> iPhones. "We usually have to tell them that if they unlock their iPhone, it
>> won't work," he says. "That it's going to be like a $700 paperweight, and
>> that the antenna will fry itself on T-Mobile. Of course, that's not true,
>> but that's what we tell them."
>> 
> 
> One of the topics on this thread was buying a phone without a contract.  I'm
> not sure if it was really mentioned, but of course a phone w/o a contract is
> not an unlocked phone.  In this case you are stuck with AT&T if you buy an
> iPhone, you can't choose to use T-Mobile.
> 
> Are there other situations where you pay full price for a phone, but still
> are required to use it with a certain carrier?  Maybe the "Google Phone"
> with T-Mobile?

Um. Only almost *every* carrier-branded phone in existence?

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