Are all of those 1 million people aware of the price?

isn't that the amount of phones apple wants to sell? :dizzy:

mission acomplished...

I thought it was more like 12 million?

10 million through 2008.

So 18 months. It will become more achievable when (if) they release another phone within a year

So what? I'm curious enough to want more info about it, but I won't buy one.

or when the prices go down.

so they already have about one million right for when it's released. then they just need to have good ads and prove that cingular (or AT&T) doesn't suck too much to get the other 9 million...

I wonder how many people who really want to get one, and have already researched the product, have bothered signing up on that list? Cingular isn't going to offer much beyond basic release information, and people who go out of their way to research products like this before release are on top of it. I'm buying one, and I've never even considered signing up for their mailing list. If 1 million people have inquired, that seems quite impressive indeed, and would lend itself positively to the product's future.

I'm most curious if Cingular will further subsidize the project, if Apple will drop the price a little more, and what, if anything, Cingular will do to accommodate customers who are locked into contracts with other carries to entice them over to their own service.

Apple said they were aiming for 10 phones, not 10 million iPhones. I think we all know Apple's gonna bring out another non-Smartphone iPhone before summer 2008, possibly before the end of this year. They'll want to grab all the teens who want a cool phone and can't afford an iPhone too. As I said a few times before, if the iPhone was really cheap and didn't require a contract I'd get one but it isn't and it does - so all I'm looking for is a cool looking, music-playing cellphone from Apple. As music phones become ubiquitous in Europe all we really want to do here is send texts, make calls and listen to music in that order of importance, anything else is just a bonus.

Big deal. If you go into a Cingular store and ask for information, they won't have any (since Apple isn't releasing any information, and they probably haven't settled on pricing models and other crap for the phone service itself). So people go "Hey, let me know when it does become available so then maybe you can tell me something about it".

But, really. $500-$600 for a phone? And one targeted mainly at the consumer segment? I think most will pass. Sure, they'll get the "If its Apple, I've got to buy it! I'm standing in line now!" people, but after that, its all about whether it fits the needs of the users.

man listen who the heck would want another phone, other than the iphone when it comes out, if you think $600 is alot just stop and think how much are they going to be on ebay with out a contract keep in mind apple has a very different consumer than MSFT and the prove that back 3 years ago when they sold ipod for $599 and they flew out of the shelves so stop it with the price already time will tell its does not matter that much when it comes to apple maybe thats there secret