iPhone for only $1316

I couldn’t find an e-mail adress to mail to Apple and complain, so to whom it may concern:

Dear Apple

You lowered the prices for the 3G iPhone, thats great!
I thought…

First of all, you contract the phone to a specific provider, that’s OK i guess. I mean, you have to make money somehow right. But how did you choose to do that? I live in Sweden and i think you had absolutely no idea what provider you chose here. You chose the absolute worst, most unpopular, most boring and most non-apple like provider in the entire country. They just plainly sucks!

You said that now that you lowered the price of the iPhone to make it available to everyone. Well, if you wanted it to be available, mission failed. Even for the 10 people in Sweden that wants to use Telia as their provider (the one you chose) it’s incredibly expensive. The total cost for the iPhone after 18 months of payment comes to $1316 dollars. Suddenly the price of the phone has gone up one thousand dollars.

This is insane. You can’t expect anyone to pay these outrageous prices?

Apple products are supposed to be fun, directed to young and technically interested people. Telia has directed the phone to corporate users with an abundance of money.

And you might say, “Well it might be a thousand dollars more expensive but you get traffic and minutes to talk for that money aswell”. While that may be true, there is no alternative. You can’t buy the phone without the 18 months subscription and I aswell as most other people are already tied to one provider (one that isn’t so lame as Telia) so we can’t even buy what is available.

So Apple, you have effectively set the price of the iPhone to $1316 for practically everyone in your customer base. Thank you for killing the dream.