Apple speculation thread

[ChrisF]

Ta for the link. Don't think I'll be tethering mine seeing as I can't get 3G at home or work.

[EvilBoris]

Tethering is obviously aimed at business users and they will be diddling themselves outta mobile broadband money if it was free

[ChrisF]

I'm on a business tarif!

[EvilBoris]

but if you wanted tethering I'd expect you already had a 3G dongle.

[EvilBoris]

Just installed the GM, all the MMS icons have returned but I can't send one I don't think. It's just hanging

[Brad]

Pay to tether. Sod off. Soon as my contract is up I'm jailbreaking mine and sticking a Three sim card in there.

[KIT786]

The prices that O2 are charging are a joke!

Prices at todays exchange rate:
16GB: $199 = £125, expected to pay £150 not £185
32GB: $299 = £185, expect to pay £200 not £275

Think I'll forget about upgrading, unless they give a much better deal come August!!

[phillai]

Anyone know if the iPhone 3G S will be compatible with Vista 64 bit OS?

I originally bought a iPhone 3G last year but had to take it back as it wasn't compatible with Vista 64 bit!

[HaHaUK]

No early upgrade for current iPhone customers and a ridiculous handset price is gonna hurt them compared to the iPhone 3G release.

[angelox]

Get iphone to mass market appeal, then strangle customers with massive upgrade costs vs little gains. No matter the battering the market took, customers for home or portable entertainment never really thought twice about spending - but between this and Sony's PSPGO's pricing one has to wonder; What ARE they smoking?

[nonny]

big fat triple skins using $20 as rolling paper?

This news is slightly annoying but it means I wont be upgrading any time soon as you can bet next year will see the iPhone 3G SX with more bells & whistles... /

Im just happy they gave a date for the Firmware 3.0 OS.

[Wil]

As I've never had one I quite fancied just getting a pay-as-you-go iphone (I just don't use the phone enough to warrant a tariff at £30 a month) and the (so called) cheaper pricing seemed great. Excuse me! What great pricing? Even if I want a old 8gb 3G it'll still cost me £342 from O2. That's no different from what it was before!. As for £538 for the new 32bg 3GS they can just * off.

[PeteJ]

What's this simplicity contract you can get online? I heard it was £25 per month but cannot find any info (apple website crashes my computer!).

[CMcK]

Dissapointed with the lack of early upgrade options and the tethering bolt ons are a joke. Still I have the tethering app that came out ages ago and have never used it.
Just have to wait until my present contract runs out I suppose.

[Dogg Thang]

It's going to be interesting to see how, if at all, this affects the App Store. The new iPhone has features and power that previous versions didn't have so there could be Apps that use those that won't work on the older iPhones or iPod Touch. And that they haven't yet upgraded the Touch and that they're pricing the new iPhone so high seems to suggest they have no problem creating such a split.

But developers will have to take into account that if they use the new power or features, they'll be cutting revenue from a massive amount of Touch and older iPhone users.

And, no doubt, there will be people buying Apps they think will do certain things but won't due to their model so that's an increase in customer service issues.

Maybe they'll split the App Store completely based on what model you have.