Personal Bytes

When I extensively talked about the iPhone, I was always referring to the hardware and skipping the plan details. Nevertheless, these are important factors while considering buying this phone and some of them might deter you, or me, from buying one. Here are the reasons for me not to buy one:

1. iPhone comes with an insanely expensive plan
2. It’s bound to a network, which does not please me at all, since I’m paying the full premium price for the device
3. Most of the times, it comes with ludicrous fidelity plans — 24 months

I did not consider its price. Although the iPhone is not exactly cheap, it’s still cheaper than a lot of other handset devices, usually powered by clumsy operating systems (read: Windows Mobile).

As for all the other points, they still apply. It really pisses me off, even being Apple, to be bound to a agreement for such a long time (although I’ve never changed my carrier in Portugal.. since I got my first phone, circa 1996, but I don’t like the imposition at all) and paying such a big monthly fee.

Sorry Apple, you’ll have to give up on that idea of making so much money so fast. I’m not buying it.

Except for that, it’s still a splendid piece of hardware and it’s revolutionizing the phone industry (just take a look at the upcoming mobile phones from Nokia, LG or Motorola: notice a pattern?) IMHO, regardless of what the pundits anti-Apple are saying.