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Re: Is it? . . .

Posted By: J242 (71.231.203.254)
Date: Thursday, 11 January 2007, at 4:29 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Is it? . . . (Lord Crosis)

: I'm pretty sure at the Stevenote he said those prices were with a 2-year
: Cingular agreement. We sold cell phones at Comp with 2 yr agreements, I
: don't see why Apple's retail stores wouldn't or couldn't do the same.
Eh, okay. Well, the difference with Comp and whatnot is they have a deal going with mulitple carriers and the carriers are "supposed to be" responsible for getting the stores trained and prepared for activations and whanot. I'm sure that an Apple store could go to Cingular's online verification and signup process to get an activation set up however that seems so "un-apple" to me. At the Bellevue Comp where we had on-hand reps from T-Mobile, Cingular/AT&T and Nextel 3 days a week they still had to go through a 15 minute process just to put in a subscriber's info and get started. If they didn't have a good credit history, we'd have to send them to the provider if it came back that they needed to make a deposit in order to activate. Very "blah" process and I hope Apple is able to figure out a way to smooth it out a bit.

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The iPhone is legit!!!!!
J242 (71.231.203.254) -- Tuesday, 9 January 2007, at 9:11 a.m.
- Re: The iPhone is legit!!!!!
  Lord Crosis (209.112.212.67) -- Tuesday, 9 January 2007, at 9:28 a.m.
  - Too bad Cingular is their partner
    Zach (24.249.152.11) -- Tuesday, 9 January 2007, at 9:50 a.m.
    - Re: Too bad Cingular is their partner
      Lord Crosis (209.112.212.67) -- Tuesday, 9 January 2007, at 9:55 a.m.
      - Re: Too bad Cingular is their partner
        Zach (24.249.152.11) -- Tuesday, 9 January 2007, at 9:58 a.m.
        
        Re: Too bad Cingular is their partner
        Lord Crosis (209.112.212.67) -- Tuesday, 9 January 2007, at 10:16 a.m.
    - Re: Too bad Cingular is their partner
      J242 (71.231.203.254) -- Tuesday, 9 January 2007, at 10:11 a.m.
      - Re: Too bad Cingular is their partner
        Zach (24.249.152.11) -- Tuesday, 9 January 2007, at 11:39 a.m.
        
        Re: Too bad Cingular is their partner
        J242 (71.231.203.254) -- Wednesday, 10 January 2007, at 9:06 a.m.
    - Re: Too bad Cingular is their partner
      J242 (71.231.203.254) -- Tuesday, 9 January 2007, at 10:37 a.m.
      - That would be a pretty good start! *NM*
        Zach (24.249.152.11) -- Tuesday, 9 January 2007, at 11:39 a.m.
- Is it? . . .
  Intellect Inside (12.219.21.222) -- Tuesday, 9 January 2007, at 2:45 p.m.
  - Re: Is it? . . .
    Lord Crosis (209.112.212.67) -- Tuesday, 9 January 2007, at 6:10 p.m.
    - Re: Is it? . . .
      J242 (71.231.203.254) -- Wednesday, 10 January 2007, at 9:03 a.m.
      - Re: Is it? . . .
        Lord Crosis (209.112.212.67) -- Wednesday, 10 January 2007, at 11:16 a.m.
        
        Re: Is it? . . .
        J242 (71.231.203.254) -- Thursday, 11 January 2007, at 4:29 a.m.
      - Time's otherwise glowing coverage...
        Lord Crosis (209.112.212.67) -- Wednesday, 10 January 2007, at 11:49 a.m.
        
        That sucks . . .
        Intellect Inside (12.219.21.222) -- Wednesday, 10 January 2007, at 7:00 p.m.
        
        Re: That sucks . . .
        J242 (71.231.203.254) -- Thursday, 11 January 2007, at 4:43 a.m.
        
        Re: Time's otherwise glowing coverage...
        J242 (71.231.203.254) -- Thursday, 11 January 2007, at 4:36 a.m.

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