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In what's been nothing but a busy news day for our favorite Cupertino-based company, Apple has announced that the iPhone is, at last, France-bound. Whilst there's no mention of tariffs, the handset will cost €399, and will be available to purchase, croissants and beret optional, from Thursday November 29th.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Neil Christie said 2:25PM on 10-16-2007
I resent the way blogs like this always have to put in a stereotypical comment when something like this happens in a country they don't understand. It really just goes to show great American ignorance.
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Pete said 2:31PM on 10-16-2007
@ Neil, it's just a joke.
Of course, the irony is that in your comment your made quite a stereotype on Americans. (Of course, looking thru your past comments it seems you always try to find a way to be negative on subjects.
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Nik Fletcher said 2:33PM on 10-16-2007
Neil,
As a Brit, I could resent being told I show 'great American ignorance': but the sarcastic mention of a french sterotype is not a malicious comment in the slightest. Us Brits have a long running Love / Hate relationship with the French, and us Brits get as much stick as 'rosbifs' as the French do for their 'stereotypes'.
Nik
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Neil Christie said 2:47PM on 10-16-2007
I knew when I finally got around to posting my distaste at these regular "jokes" here I'd make a mistake. It's not limited to you though, Nik so the American ignorance still stands!
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Fred said 3:01PM on 10-16-2007
I'm french, and I found your post quite funny :)
Just so you know, "notre" is a singular, you could correct the allmost-french quote from:
Bienvenue a la famille iPhone, notre amis Français!
To:
Bienvenue à nos amis Français dans la famille iPhone !
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Foobarman said 3:07PM on 10-16-2007
Any word on unlocked iPhones vis-a-vis the French consumer protection laws?
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speedup said 3:15PM on 10-16-2007
We have fairly more extensive information at our French reference website macbidouille.com which tells the iPhone should be sold unlocked and without a contract, yet way overpriced (they guess 999 Euros, but no one knows for sure). This is meant to comply to the French legal issues (you cannot sell a product bundled with a service, both have to be available separately), but the high price tag will make such an unlock device unfordable.
Orange is told to give 30% of its iPhone contracts income to Apple to compensate for the loss in unlocked phone sales.
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Jerome said 3:16PM on 10-16-2007
@ Foobarman
It seems that there will be an unlocked version, priced... 999 euros !
@Nik
I'm French, but I've got a nice American hat which I intend to keep wearing. But I could surely do with some croissants with my future iPhone ;-)
(and Fred is right, you should correct just a few things, and it will be perfect)
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JaXX said 3:38PM on 10-16-2007
I'm french too... err... who cares anyways :)
just to mention that the 999 buck price tag for the unlocked version is just a way for Apple to stay "in the lines" but to prevent people from buying it through other channels than the one they want... I'm pretty sure consumer associations will jump on the occasion to get that judged as abusive... It's not the first time Orange will have to pay a fine these last months anyways ! They're getting pretty used to it... a few millions here, anouther few million there... not to mention in was "Public" money before...
I really wonder what the GooglePhone is gonna be like... unless Orange surprises us with an acceptable flat-rate no-limit data plan... But there's never been compitition on mobile Data in France... and unlimited data is nearly non-existent in the small lines. (I pay my my Enterprise Data contract with Bouygues about 60€/month, and it's the only no-limit data possible here, reserved for pros)
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Louis said 4:24PM on 10-16-2007
“Bienvenue dans la famille” :-)
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Cedric said 4:39PM on 10-16-2007
I would rather write : "Bienvenue dans la famille iPhone, amis français !"
;-)
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cynyc said 6:23PM on 10-16-2007
Though the French aren't as litigation prone as Americans, I wouldn't be surprised if the pricing, if correct, generated another lawsuit or even the French government, if not the EU looking into Apple's and Orange's business practices... It shouldn't be ok to so obviously try to circumvent a consumer protection law.
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Mitchell Atlas said 6:40PM on 10-16-2007
At last, an Apple and an Orange are working together, despite their differences...
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jayjay said 7:32PM on 10-16-2007
Here in Finland all top-level Nokias cost around 900 euros at the time of their release. This has been true for all communicators and all the luxury 8xxx series phones. The N95 started out at around 700e. Furthermore, phones can only be sold together with service plans if they are 3G. Which means Finland will probably not see an iPhone before a 3G version is developed and brought to the market. Luckily I got mine for 285e from the US.
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Michel said 8:37PM on 10-16-2007
I'm french and I'm fond of France AND USA. strange isn't it ? (for totally differents reasons, one day I will merge both)
(and UK of course, these... hu.. nice people got an apple store in london, I'm so jealouuuus :) )
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990 euro for a phone is expensive. even for me. I'm not used to see that price for a superbe phone in shops (maybe I don't go in good shops :) )
fortunately, I'm already a customer of "Orange".
strange time to eat an orangeous apple.
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Alex in Amsterdam said 1:32AM on 10-17-2007
Any news about when it will be launched in the Netherlands?
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misterredtape said 1:58AM on 10-17-2007
@speedup: Not expensive at all. All the unlocking community would need to do is buy one unlocked phone and then gut it for its contents.
This is great news.
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Diego said 10:49AM on 10-17-2007
uh...I think you need to get your french fixed...
How about
"Bienvenue dans la famille iPhone, nos amis françaises"
And what about the laws tha prevents companies in France to profit in such a monopolistic way like Apple + ATT do in the US? How did they solve that!
Ciao! :)
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ConsultDifferent said 4:46PM on 10-17-2007
Enfin!
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