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Re:How Apple Plays the Pricing Game by whatusername on Monday September 06, 2010 @08:51PM (#1667717)
16GB iPhone: A$ 859.00 (http://store.apple.com/au/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...)

8GB iPod Touch: A$289 (http://www.apple.com/au/ipodtouch/)

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Re:How Apple Plays the Pricing Game by kgermino on Monday September 06, 2010 @10:50PM (#1667877)
I think the discrepancy here is stores for different countries. Go the the US store [1] and it says

  Can I buy an iPhone without an AT&T contract?
  No. iPhone requires a two-year AT&T wireless service contract
as Groxx pointed out above.

I believe that AT&T (the only iPhone carrier in the US) prevents people from buying unlocked iPhones new so that people can't buy them and use them with a cheaper plan or carrier.

[1] http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...

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Re:How Apple Plays the Pricing Game by whatusername on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @02:05AM (#1668228)
Oh I know --- I was just pointing out that there are countries where that isn't the case -- and you can do an apples-to-apples comparison of prices.
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