1. If you are bound by a contract for AT&T to recoup its investment in the customer and make a handsome profit in the process, why should it be important that the phone is locked or not?
2. Surprising a relative friend or relative with an iPhone per my understandig is not an option, unless you also include an additional and perhaps unnecessary number as pa part of the gift.
3. If Apple wants to get to the 10 million mark, by requiring the inconvenience of customers to activate the telephone at an AT&T store sounds like an inconvenience that many customers now accustomed to purchasing their electronics through the internet may wind off waiting for a better alternative when it becomes available.
It appears that what is a superb product offering is being spared hyper success for a more modest sales goal.
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1. If you are bound by a contract for AT&T to recoup its investment in the customer and make a handsome profit in the process, why should it be important that the phone is locked or not? 2. Surprising a relative friend or relative with an iPhone per my understandig is not an option, unless you also include an additional and perhaps unnecessary number as pa part of the gift. 3. If Apple wants to get to the 10 million mark, by requiring the inconvenience of customers to activate the telephone at an AT&T store sounds like an inconvenience that many customers now accustomed to purchasing their electronics through the internet may wind off waiting for a better alternative when it becomes available. It appears that what is a superb product offering is being spared hyper success for a more modest sales goal.