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by Joel Aufrecht
05:01 PM, 27 Feb 2009
from Friday through the end of May, you can sign up for an 8GB iPhone 3G in Japan for a grand total of zero. ... so long as you sign up for a new two-year contract ....So the two-year contract costs roughly a thousand dollars. The article doesn't say what that phone cost before the price cut, but it was probably between US$100 and US$200. So the price drop could be, at the most, from $1200 to $1000. But the headline is "Get an iPhone 3G for free". The charitable interpretation is, I guess, that it's simply assumed that everybody pays for a monthly cell phone service contract, so that should reasonably be excluded. Since I represent a walking, breathing refutation of that assumption, I'm more prone to be irked by people sweeping a thousand dollars under the rug. It doesn't take much further inspection to notice the prominent product placement for a certain retailer, which makes me wonder about the ratio of "journalism" to "advertising" in this "story". It's a reminder that print newspapers had some standards, however tattered and breached, that we're probably going to miss in the online world.
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