Yeah, too T-Mobile in the U.S. didn't get a chance at the iPhone. The coverage isn't as good as AT&T and they don't have a real 3G plan in the works. They seemed more focused on using WiFi for a 3G experience.

I foresee a huge underground market for hacked iPhones being sold in the US for Germany...

When is AAPL going to treat its european customers with some more respect. In the US the phone sells for 399$, over here 554$. That is a hefty 25% markup. I could live with the markup if we were to get the products AT THE SAME TIME.

The same applies to other products and categories : if you look at the iTMS in Belgium and compare it to (say) the US, you would think that us people living in Belgium still walk around with wooden clubs in order to put food on the table and that electricity is only sporadic (when the sun shines which it does not very often).

Shameful very shameful

Lawl!

As I pointed out earlier...

iPod Touch 16GB is $399 or 399 so the iPhone being the same dollar<>euro price isn't unprecedented. The European price includes VAT though which in Germany is 19%. (ie. it's 335 before tax)

Therefore the 25% markup isn't so bad as it first seems.

I suspect also it'll be £269 in the UK (£229 before tax), same as the iPod Touch instead of £198, the dollar equivalent.

So we're only be ripped off about £30/$60 in the UK and Germany before tax compared with the US. That's a fairly low level of rip off for Apple. \

Wait until we get our 3G, 16GB version then we can do an Apple to Apple* comparison.

*Pun intended :-)