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IPhone Is No Longer Available in UK
PC World ^ | 5/09/08 | Carrie-Ann Skinner

Posted on 05/09/2008 11:15:35 AM PDT by RS

O2 has confirmed reports that the iPhone is not currently available anywhere in the UK, and customers may have to wait for the putative 3G Apple iPhone.

(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; iphone
What kind of marketing is this ? Has apple stopped producing the first version ?
1 posted on 05/09/2008 11:15:35 AM PDT by RS
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O2, Carphone: More 2.5G iPhones inbound
2 posted on 05/09/2008 11:19:20 AM PDT by dighton
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Their next version should roll out next month. They are probably just purging inventory so they doesn’t have to discount.


3 posted on 05/09/2008 11:19:56 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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If consumer demand is still there, is it because they don’t know about the 3G coming out, or don’t care and would rather have the cheaper price ?

It’s not like retailers were losing money selling them at a discount.


4 posted on 05/09/2008 11:34:01 AM PDT by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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iPhone has never been available in Canada. Heck, we just got TiVo!


5 posted on 05/09/2008 12:24:27 PM PDT by Appleby
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Heck, we just got TiVo!

We have GOT to do something about Canadian industrial espionage, or pretty soon, we'll all be speaking Canadian down here.

And I don't know aboot anybody else, but I wouldn't like that one bit.

6 posted on 05/10/2008 10:06:00 AM PDT by Hoplite
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Looks like they have run dry at the applestore

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?nnmm=browse&node=home/shop_iphone/family/iphone&sf=wHF2F2PHCCCX72KDY

Wonder who will be that last person in the U.S. to lock themselves into a 2-year contract on an obsolete piece of equipment ?


7 posted on 05/10/2008 4:17:35 PM PDT by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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