Hi everyone.
I want to share an epiphany i had this morning, I’m reading the posts on the iPhone been launched in Israel, I want to do Microsoft a service today by talking about it.. I don't want to technically review it because I have an iPhone 3G.. I use it and I like it.
The things I want to talk about it is how are we as consumers act.
I guess a lot of people have wrote about it, but in Israel someone wants to make a whole lot extra shekels on our lack of discipline as consumers (again..)
Yesterday I read in some famous iphone blog about leaked as a hear say, NOT something proven, iPhone 3Gs package one of the carrier in Israel will sell, again, the information came from a leak or hear-say or something like that but the numbers blow me away
we’re talking about this : iPhone 3Gs , 200 SMS, unlimited Internet access.. the air time and min is still UNKNOWN, all this for 350NIS a month for with a commitment for 18 months.
1st of all I want to say that the core payment to the cellular companies is min talking on the phone ! this is their main income, the SMS and the internet as an infrastructure is the network services that come with, they have their costs but its minimal.. the main business is how to get you and me talk more on the phone…and if we have a package that cost 350 nis a moth without the information on how much min included in the package we need to take know this and judge it carefully.
2nd 350 nis for 18 months is around 6300 NIS !!! WTF?!?!, check this out.. let say you want the phone badly and willing to pay top $ to get it, in the US it cost $200 with a waaaaay cheaper package, and if you want to go to Europe and pay the whole sum for a SIM FREE phone lets say in Czech republic or Italy. the 18GB model will cost around 600 Euro.. its ~3500 NIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in israel again we pay double!, than get an “expensive” Israeli carrier package for 100nis a month..with 5GB internet and min deal that match you as a costumer.
again we let the market control our life without us controlling the market
I wouldn't buy an iPhone in Israel!