I've seen good reasons not to buy the iPhone but this list is just plain stupid.
Reasons to avoid 3G iPhone in India.
1. Expected Price above Rs 21 grand when half of the world gets is for wat, Rs 8000!
2. You charge me that much and then ask me to sign a heavy bill contract when if your current plans are an indicator, half of the data features would not work at all, call rates would make me broke and generally every thing else about current plans makes me puke.
So, you believe the rumours about the iPhone not being subsidised for India and yet assume that the tariff plans will be similar to the ones in countries where the phone is being sold at subsidised prices? Wow!
Only one of the two points you mentioned is going to be true -- it's either going to be expensive upfront and sell in conjunction with low/moderately priced plans (and maybe even with the pre-paid option) or it's going to cost south of ten thousand bucks and the plans are going to cost a bomb.
You just cannot list both of them as individual reasons not to buy the iPhone, all based on not an iota of actual fact.
And BTW, if you are interested in buying the iPhone, for your sake, I hope they decide not to subsidise it for India and sell it at the actual cost, whatever it is. Trust me, you don't want to end up protesting on the Internet like those Canadians.
Also, whichever model they decide to opt for, the iPhone is going to remain expensive. If that's a reason not to buy the iPhone for you, sure, go ahead -- but don't list it under two separate, misleading headings.
3. Just 8 GB of storage at that price, you gotta be kidding me!
How many phones do you know that cost $199 (which is the only cost we know right now) and offer 8GB of storage? Or, better yet, how many phones do you know at
any price that offer 8GB of storage?
4. Maximum storage is just 16GB and iPod touch comes with 32 GB Max.
Why are you comparing a music player to a phone anyway? The touch isn't a phone and doesn't do EDGE or 3G or GPS or Bluetooth. It's an iPod. The iPhone is a phone. Again, do you know even one phone on the market, not from Apple, that offers 16 freakin' GB of built-in storage!
BTW isnt there an expansion card slot even in a Rs 4000 phone now a days!
Yeah, and how much can you expand them to? 1GB? 2GB? Most phones slow down when used in conjugation with a 2GB memory card. And 4GB is the maximum any phone even theoretically supports.
The iPhone comes with
16GB of storage right out of the box and there is no hassle of inserting memory sticks and all that. WTH am I missing here!
5. And Above All Where is the 3G in India by the way?
That is hardly Apple's problem. There are hundreds of 3G capable phones selling in India apart from the iPhone. Go ahead, label them all as unfit for purchase just because they have a feature that Indians cannot use.
The iPhone at least gives you the option to turn it off and get double the battery life.
Again, I know there are several genuine reasons why someone would prefer to stay away from the iPhone but these are not it. This is just random cribbing based on hearsay, if anything at all.
(my view)
