The panel : Jason C Martin, Stu Helm, Gazamaz, Claus Wolf

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The panel : Bart Busschots, Stu Helm, Chris Wall, Oliver Haslam and Gazmaz

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The panel : Bart Busschots, Stu Helm, Jason C. Martin, Gerard Massey and Brendan Finan

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This week’s panel : Bart Busschots, Stu Helm, Gazmaz, Oliver Haslam and Michael King

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The basic gist of the story is that Apple have released two new iPhone ads in the US, both of which highlight the fact that the iPhone (and subsequently AT&T’s 3G network) can handle voice and data at the same time, and giving real world examples of how this benefits iPhone users. What Apple does though, is to bring up the whole  which 3G network is better ‘battle’ in the ad, is this right, is Apple being paid off by AT&T?

Now, I’m not disputing the facts here, the truth is Verizon’s EVDO network can’t handle voice and data at the same time, whereas AT&T’s HSDPA network can. What I’m questioning is whether Apple should have left it at ‘Can your phone do that?’ rather than rallying to AT&T’s side in this, as I called it earlier, battle of the 3G networks.

I have to wonder if Apple have indeed been asked, and possibly paid, by AT&T to create this ad, it’s certainly not the first time AT&T have had a hand in the iPhone. We all know that AT&T have on many occasion asked Apple to reject apps from the App Store because of concerns over their 3G network, which I’m sure most AT&T users will confirm is not exactly in a great state right now.

I guess that’s my thoughts on the subject, but I’d love to hear yours, so use the comments below to let me know your views!

This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Joel Drapper, Will P, Matt Hillyer and Katie Floyd

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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Keaton Brant, Nick McGuire, Michael King and Pat Mahon

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This week’s panel : Bart Busschots, Stu Helm, Will P, Jason C Martin and special guest Allison Sheridan

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This week’s panel : Bart Busschots, Stu Helm, Paul Shadwell, Chris Wall and Michael King

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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Paul Shadwell, Gazmaz, Anthony Gartner and special guest Melissa Davis aka. The Mac Mommy

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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Bart Busschots, Michael King, Claus Wolf and Anthony Gartner

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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Bart Busschots, Paul Shadwell, Nick Balaz and Joel Drapper

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*Note: In this article, I will refer to AT&T, but most of this information is applicable to any carrier*

Let’s start with the basics. The original iPhone was an unsubsidized phone. That means that you paid the entire cost of the phone, and AT&T paid Apple a certain amount over the life of the contract, and that is how Apple made a good chunk of their money. When you terminate a contract on an unsubsidized phone, AT&T only loses the amount that you were paying them for the service, which to them is all profit. So you paid for the service, and when you terminate the contract, you don’t get any more service, so AT&T doesn’t lose anything.

On the other hand, the iPhone 3G, and the new 3GS are subsidized. That means that AT&T is paying some percent of the cost of the phone to Apple when you buy the phone, so you don’t have to pay such exorbitant prices for the phone, and then they make up their losses over the length of the contract (in AT&T’s case, the 2 year contract). This is why when you get a pay as you go plan, or “GoPhone” plan, as AT&T calls it, or a plan without a contract commitment, you get less or no subsidy on the price of the phone. However, when you terminate the contract, that is one of the reasons you must pay an early termination fee. In addition to them allowing you out of what is essentially a legally binding document, you have to finish paying for that subsidy. Thus, a subsidized phone is not a cheaper phone, but in fact one that you pay for over the life of your contract.

So, back to the iPhone 3GS upgrade price conundrum. Last year, when we were going from the iPhone to the 3G, we were going from unsubsidized to subsidized. As we talked about two paragraphs ago, ending an unsubsidized phone plan early, like all upgraders were, is not a problem, because you just stop paying for the services you no longer intend to use, and AT&T doesn’t lose anything. In fact, in this transaction, they gain, because over the life of the contract they do better in the end on a subsidized phone than they do on an unsubsidized.

Now, we are going from subsidized to subsidized, and terminating our existing contract early. As we learned what is now once again two paragraphs ago (see what I did there?), by terminating a subsidized phone plan early, AT&T would lose money, so they charge you the early termination fee to make up for the money they lost when they subsidized your iPhone. When you are upgrading to the 3GS, you pay this early termination fee in the form of the not-so-subsidized, but still subsidized, 3GS. This is why those people who are not eligible for an upgrade (i.e. those who bought the 3G), have to pay higher than normal subsidized prices, but not the highest, unsubsidized price, because they are paying off the rest of their iPhone 3G. In addition, even if it wasn’t logical, it is a very standard practice with upgrading subsidized phones across the entire market, so it isn’t just AT&T. So if we are going to treat AT&T like the bad guys (and I’m not saying they aren’t), why wouldn’t they do exactly what everyone else is doing? This isn’t exclusive to the iPhone!

Meanwhile, people who don’t understand all this, and how AT&T has to make money somehow, have been whining and complaining about how much more expensive it is for them to upgrade and how AT&T was screwing over the early adopters and how they are in the hands of the devil and how Steve Jobs is angelic and blah blah blah. Eventually, AT&T got sick (and tired, Billy Cosby anyone?) of all this whining, and caved. They gave anyone who will be upgrade eligible in July, August, or September the fully subsidized price, even though they haven’t paid for their 3G in full yet. (For the more detailed information, I suggest you go to AT&T’s post about it and read it thoroughly, over at http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=1574). I think this was the WORST (that’s right, worst) thing AT&T could have done. They should have stuck to their guns and put up with the whining. Why, you ask? Because now that they have done this once, people who upgrade their iPhone every year will expect it now, like when you pet a dog after he whines, sooner or later he realizes that if he whines long enough you are eventually going to pet him, so he whines more! AT&T doing this every year just isn’t feasible for them, because as we said three paragraphs ago (I am doing quite a lot of referencing in this post, aren’t I), by terminating early, and not paying that fee or upgrade price, AT&T is losing money, and they have to make money somehow. On the other hand, if they are intelligent, and they don’t do this every year, then there will be even more whining! And I hate whining! So, whiners, please stop whining, and let AT&T continue doing business the smart way so they don’t have to go filing for bankruptcy, leaving you stranded on T-Mobile, the suckiest GSM carrier with the suckiest data in the US.

Now, I hope that you all understand the way these things work a little better now, and will all stop whining! However, I am not perfect, nor do I pretend to be (except almost all the time). So if you are some super smart person who actually knows about this stuff first-hand, as opposed to me where this is all just collected from things I have read, feel free to comment and correct me.

Coming up from Connor P, I am working on two more blog posts, one is a very long overdue review of Wiretap Anywhere, and the other is a combined review of BusySync and the soon-to-be-released-in-private-beta BusyCal. Stay tuned!

This week’s panel : Bart Busschots, Stu Helm, Keaton Brant, Michael King, Josh Holat and Adam Fisher-Cox

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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Bart Busschots, Chris Wall, Gaz and Paul Shadwell

In this special episode we give our thoughts on the WWDC 09 Keynote from Monday 8th June 2009, if you haven’t sene the Keynote yet we’d suggest you do so first via Apple’s site

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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Keaton Brant, Michael King, Jason Martin and guests Seth Smith and Josh Holat

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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Nick Balaz, Michael King, Jason Martin and introducing Sebastian!

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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Bart Busschots, Connor Jackson, Rob Hanson, Keaton Brant and returning guest Paul Shadwell

The episode was going to be called ‘Bart’s Cat Gets Neutered’ but Keaton Brant suggested not to use that  ‘Cause the cat neutering one makes my balls hurt!’ (Sorry Keaton, that was too good not to use!)
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Sadly this week’s show was not actually live, due to some serious server issues over at TalkShoe, so Stu, Lewis, Chris and Bart hopped on Skype to record the episode. It did feel weird not having our audience but we muddled through.

As you’ll hear we had some audio issues this week, Garageband crashed on me during the recording so we had to use one of the panel’s skype recordings!

Hope you enjoy the show, links for this episode can be found on our delicious tag

First of all, I’d like to say a massive sorry for the late release of this show. My excuse is simple, I’ve been ill this week and also had some problems encoding the file, which were rather frustrating.

This week’s panel consists of Stu Helm, Lewis King, Rob Hanson, Bart Busschots and Aaron Dyer. We mostly talk about what made the launch of the iPhone 3G a raving disaster in the UK and US and talk about some of the new apps available for iPhone / iPod Touch owners in the App Store

I personally will try to stream from about 6am GMT from the o2 store in Leeds, if I can get wifi etc, but I’d also like to mention our friend from the Apple Review Cast, John Meyer, who is in New York and will be streaming from 2am EST over at www.mogulus.com/applereviewcast he and his cohorts will also be doing a giveaway of 20 iPhone 3G invisible shields, so definately worth a look.

I’ve asked the rest of the team to update this post if they are going to be doing any streaming, so watch this spot!

Despite some editing problems, we’re back with IMP Live 005, this week the panel consists of Chris Wall, Jason Martin and Stu Helm, with guests Bart Busschots, Kyle, Michael King and David Hopkinson.

We talk about more iPhone 3G news (sorry!), FireFox 3, Flash on the iPhone, SproutCore and some new touch screen stuff that really isn’t that new. You can find the links that we got most of our stories from over on the del.icio.us tag.

There is also no at home activation, you now have to get your phone activated in store, this takes about 10-12 minutes to complete which probably means that there will be very long lines on launch day. So, unless you plan on getting there when they open and are first inline I would plan on going in after it launches. To get the new 3G iPhone they require you to sign a two year contract. So with all of that the new iPhone 3G will cost you $160 more than the orginal iPhone in the long run.

Apple’s WWDC08 conference took place this from June 9th – 13th in San Francisco and is usually worth talking about so we gatherred Stu Helm, Lewis King, Jordan Drake and Ben Fryxell for a live discussion about the events and news.

We talk about the new iPhone SDK, iPhone Software 2.0, Enterprise features, Mobile Me and of course the iPhone 3G and it’s pricing in the UK, Ireland and USA. We also cover what we’ve heard about Apple’s update to Mac OS X – codenamed Snow Leopard and talk about Apple escorting journalists to the bathroom!

After a few recording issues, yes they were my fault, we bring you our discussion of the Keynote / Stevenote from the opening day of WWDC08.

The panel for this extra show is a bit larger than normal but we have Chris Wall, Lewis King, Stu Helm, Brandon Wood and Bart Busschots along with guests David Hopkinson, Josh Holat, Jason Martin, John Soliman, Kyle and Chris Leydon (who managed not to swear this time!)

We talk about the iPhone SDK, iPhone Software 2.0, Enterprise features, Games on the iPhone, Mobile Me and of course the iPhone 3G and the pricing deals we know about in the UK, Ireleand and USA.