On: And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’

[runjake]

> I think it was $600. That was pretty expensive at the time.

Just a few years before, people flocked to buy $599 Motorola RAZR flip phones on two years contracts. I saw the hordes lined up, myself. Next to that, the iPhone seems like a bargain

[ianstallings → runjake]

Wow, they were that much? No wonder I never had one. I guess the price point wasn't that crazy. I was just cheap!

[protomyth → ianstallings]

The lines for the Razor made me think the pundits who thought the iPhone was overpriced were crazy or not watching what was going on in the cell market.

[gibwell → protomyth]

The pundits make money by stirring up negativity, not by informing people.

[alex_doom → ianstallings]

Yeah the pricing has always been around that range for most high-end phones. I remember lusting after some European only Nokia's that were $800.

[rplacd → alex_doom]

Weren't the full-QWERTY Communicators within that price range? Any more interesting than that and we'd have credited to them a more full-featured OS barging into the range of PDAs - assuming we can rule out an Apple-style lateral leap.