Comments on: 10,000 iPhones sold in Germany on Launch Day – “failure”, my foot!

By: Partners in Grime

Partners in Grime — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:35:24 +0000

Yikes, that’s expensive. Amazing the iPhone sold that many!

By: pp

pp — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:45:54 +0000

**you guys actually have to pay when someone calls you or sends you a message?? **

Yes, in USA. Isn’t it crazy? I don’t know of any other country in the world doing such a stupid thing. You are being screwed there, you should complain because it is NOT normal.

BTW, don’t expect queues of people camping for 3 days before the launch of a device in anywhere like in USA. That is not normal behaviour.

By: mitchell Magouirk

mitchell Magouirk — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:47:13 +0000

those are tmobile numbers so far.does not in clude apple numbers and is not for the whole weekend total sales as in 270,000 units in 30 hours for us launch

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:24:37 +0000

you guys actually have to pay when someone calls you or sends you a message?? i never knew that… that’s tough.

By: obi

obi — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:47:25 +0000

I have doubts that the iPhone will be a big success in Germany,
due to its TCO. I tried to compare the cheapest Germany plan to
the cheapest ATT plan, so you can judge yourself if you would get it :

Contract costs for 2 years including phone, activation and monthly fee:
$2336 (including taxes) as opposed to $1875 in the US (without taxes?)

What do you get for it in Germany:

Voice:
- 100 minutes as opposed to 450 in the US (in Germany you dont have
to pay for incoming calls, so this is more like 200 min vs. 450 min)
- No Night and weekend minutes at all
- No rollover (unused minutes expire at the end of the month)
- If you exceed the 100 minutes, you pay $0,57 for each extra minute
as opposed to $0,45 in the US (If I got that right)

SMS:
- 40 SMS are included here. As opposed to 200 at ATT (again you dont
pay for incoming SMS so this is more like 80 vs. 200)
- Each extra SMS will cost you $0,28 (I could not figure out costs for
extra SMS at ATT)

Data:
- In germany you get 200MB at EDGE speed. After exceeding that, they
throttle the speed to 64Kb/s for the rest of the month
- Hotpot usage and visual VM should be the same as in the US

In addition there is no option for existing T-Mobile customers to keep
their current plans and just add the Data feature, as is possible for ATT
customers for $20 (if I got that right).

Would you go for that ?