Once again proves my point that "analysts" are a bunch overpayed pretenders and full of crap. Any mac fanboy could make a more accurate prediction then these guys.

As far as Apple goes, seems like they are not likely to get of the greed-train anytime soon, it's getting worse by the minute, which makes you wonder if the iPhone was such a good idea after all...

OMG, I just bought the iPhone last Sunday on 5th Ave. NYC, thank god I got there in time, because I was paying in cash!

Here is the definitive simple solution (i just came up with this as reading the articles, so don't castrate me should there be some innate flaw")
 
step 1:  get large amount of cash (which i guess you store under your bed or in a shoe box or wherever you have it cause you don't believe in banks and you dont have a checking account with visa atm card or because credit card companies are ruining the world so you refuse to sign up for one so that you can make sure you never build up any credit to prove that you can handle having someone lend you stuff thereby making sure you never qualify for a loan someday in order to buy something larger such as a house or car or 100 iphones, or because cash is prettier or because its fun to carry hundreds of dollars in cash around should someone politely ask you for it with a gun or for whatever reason it is that you do not have anything with a visa logo on it)
step 2: walk into apple store with said large amount of cash
step 3: buy yourself 1, 2, or any number of apple store gift cards with cash (each card holds up to 2500 dollars, unlimited number of gift cards can be purchased at one time)
step 4: purchase iphone(s) with gift card
step 5: unlock iphone
step 6: sell iphone on the street next to man with his ad hoc shop which is set up on a picnic blanket, he sells such items as cell phones, emptied used wallets, shoes (not necessarily matching pairs), and your bike

Apple "guessed" 25% (a quater, 1/4) of iPhones sold are unlocked, you call it a low "guess", then you say "about one in five of iPhones getting hacked", (1/5, 20%)... hello?

Oh and to all you with the argument that using cash is a choice, and you don't WANT to pay with a piece of plastic that either is credit or debit, well I have had this problem for YEARS , but it is of a different sort, for you see, I don't WANT to pay for anything with money at all, for I don't believe in a symbolic unit of wealth, you see, I only WANT to pay via bartering no cash, no credit. I give you something with intrinsic value and you give me something equally valuable. Well you can imagine my chagrin when I walked into the apple store with my goat and I was turned down for an iphone. I even explained to the taken aback manager that this was a prized goat raised from a proud heritage, it produced the sweetest goats milk for making delicious chevre cheese, but still NOTHING. Then I thought to myself, maybe they only will trade with produce, being they are apple, so i brought in a basket of avacados and the deed for 1 acre of my avocado farm and said we could mutually profit share. Still he turned me away. F U APPLE, I will NEVER buy anything from you again.

Goatherder, you rock. so hard.

Stupid question here!

If you sell your iphone, aren't you stuck with a 2-year contract you signed when you bought the iphone  Or does the software hack make the contract go away, too.

Apple sucks.......they always have. Trying to corner markets all the time and end up spiting themselves. Fools. Go with Windows Mobile 6, much better, much more secure, and YOU the CONSUMER can choose what carrier you want to use. ATT SUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS !

If you sell your iphone, aren't you stuck with a 2-year contract you signed when you bought the iphone  Or does the software hack make the contract go away, too.

Following the success of iPod, Apple announced the iPhone in January 2007. The announcement was preceded by rumors and speculations that circulated for several months.