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Best Buy offers iPhone 4 for $50 with 2-year contract

by Steven Sande (Jul 27th, 2012)

If you're looking for an iPhone 4 on the cheap for the kids, for your elderly parents, or for yourself, head on over to your local Best Buy store. They're now offering the 8 GB iPhone 4 for US$49.99 with a new two-year contract. The discount, which appears to be permanent and not just a ...

AT&T slashes prices of first-gen 3G iPads

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 18th, 2011)

Pricey iPad 2s may be showing up in online auctions, but for those of you who just want to get an iPad for web surfing or downloading apps, original iPad Wi-Fi+3G models just had their prices slashed at AT&T. Original iPad Wi-Fi+3G models sold through AT&T have now dropped to US$429 for ...

Apple drops MacBook to $899 for students

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 29th, 2009)

Just a quick note that the online Apple Store has quietly dropped their white MacBook from $949 to $899 for students, teachers, and faculty members. Some buyers are even seeing pricing as low as $728, according to Engadget. The white polycarbonate MacBook specs remain at 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, ...

Dinner and a movie or... an iPhone?

by Lauren Hirsch (Jul 10th, 2009)

It was inevitable. One day the iPhone was going to turn into an impulse purchase. In two short years we've gone from the iPhone as a serious $500 commitment to a grab no more expensive than dinner and a movie. The AT&T store now has a refurbished 8GB iPhone 3G for $79, with free two-day ...

Apple Store down on a Sunday?

by Michael Rose (May 3rd, 2009)

Well, that's unusual. Price drops? New gear? Regular maintenance? We'll know soon enough. Back up now... no visible changes reported and the main difference appears to be an enhanced UI for the shopping cart screen. Before & after pics below (thanks Joachim). Old cart UI: New cart UI: Thanks ...

Why did Apple drop the price?

by Mike Schramm (Sep 6th, 2007)

I think there's no question by now what the biggest announcement yesterday was. The iPod Touch is cool, and the new CoverFlow interface will definitely make some music listeners happy this holiday, but since the end of the announcement, the biggest splash has come from the iPhone's price drop. Why ...

Nokia and Apple both target price drop searchers (Updated)

by Mike Schramm (Sep 6th, 2007)

In among all of the furor about the big iPhone price drop yesterday, there is, of course, marketers trying to ply both sides. Nokia was first with the Google ad you see above, in the results page for "iphone price drop"-- they called out early adopters and tried to lure them to something called ...

Apple on track to sell one millionth iPhone by end of September

by Scott McNulty (Sep 5th, 2007)

I think this iPhone thing is going to catch on. Apple has stated, in a press release about the iPhone price drop, that they are on track for selling 1 million iPhones by the end of this month. This is not a shock as we knew they were selling well, but hopefully this means that pundits won't try and ...