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calbear92

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Jun 19, 2014
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It's only $0.99/iPhone, but sell a few million- that's a nice skim off the top for the companies for 0% financing.
 

StarShot

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Pretty clear to me. While I haven’t checked his findings he is saying for instance if Apple charges 56 a month for the x atnt is charging 56.99. Well that’s what I got from his posting.
Round error??? Maybe I'm missing something, but is 99 cents REAL money to an Apple user?
 

calbear92

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Jun 19, 2014
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I didn't say that it's a lot of $, but it's just something not overtly disclosed to all the consumers who purchase their iPhones thru Device Payments. It's purely an observation for educational purposes.

It's a nice chunk of change for the carriers to pick up a $0.99 on each unit.

$0.99 x 1 million units= $999,000 of "free" $.
 

C DM

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I didn't say that it's a lot of $, but it's just something not overtly disclosed to all the consumers who purchase their iPhones thru Device Payments. It's purely an observation for educational purposes.

It's a nice chunk of change for the carriers to pick up a $0.99 on each unit.

$0.99 x 1 million units= $999,000 of "free" $.
So what are some actual examples?
 

calbear92

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Jun 19, 2014
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Verizon: iPhone X 256GB: $1149.99 vs Apple Retail price: $1149.00

Verizon: iPhone 8 Plus 256GB: $949.99 vs Apple Retail price: $949.00

(same with AT&T, T Mobile, and Sprint)
 
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