Comments on: Report: G1 costs 10 percent less to make than iPhone

If the G1 costs less to make than Apple's iPhone, why is it twice as expensive to purchase?

[stigmattaman]

Ha ha ha. Nobody cares about your story enough to correct you. The G1 subsidized costs $179 or even $149 at Wal-Mart. The unlocked price is $399 because there's no contract. The iPhone 3G costs $199 for the lower end model, and it'll be a whopping $599 when and if it's available without a contract.

Your post, it needs to be fixed. Fix it!

[stigmattaman]

dude, read the story you linked to:
"Deutsche Telekom AG's (DT) T-Mobile USA subsidiary currently sells the G1 for $179, while AT&T Inc. (T) offers the eight-gigabyte iPhone for $199."

It's fine if you don't know the price off hand, but I have no freaking idea where you came up with the $399 number.

WOW. I have never read a more misleading article/blog. Stigmattaman is correct in his statement...

[brfsa]

wow,

how much u got paid to talk such a crap?

[alenas]

Riddiculous article - it's like the guys is Apple fan or something :)

[gsmtnbiker]

Can you say "misleading"?

[dantheman962]

Yes, how about total BS too?

[kristoff380]

The $199 iPhone has 8GB of memory, not 16GB. The $179 G1 ($148 at Walmart) has 1gb, but you can buy a $20 card and upgrade it to 8GB = same price or less.

How in the world did this guy get an article onto CNET? He is completely clueless about the G1. Even the most basic Google search will tell you everything you would need to know to write this article correctly.

I'm giving you a D- instead of an F only because you got the pricing right on the internal hardware. Please go back to school. Thanks.

[schecska]

This article is false, uninteresting, and overall useless. Very disappointing for a generally high quality site. Please take it down or rewrite it, although to be honest, I'm not really sure there is a story here to begin with.

[ekeefe41]

Your no to bright....
Your comparing the unsubsidized G1 cost to the subsidized Iphone cost.

I can't believe CNET publishes someone blog that is so misleading.
Is there an editor i can contact and report this blog?

[planblove]

You need to do some

[checodaman]

Crave - take this down or edit this...its completely misleading.

How can you legitimately compare pricing of phones with and without contracts....wow, this guys an idiot.

[b3rusty]

Boo this man,,, boo, boo!

[stigmattaman]

Ha, still no correction or edit. And I even e-mailed the guy personally. Don't just let them get away with this because it's "just a blog." I love cnet, and Crave in particular, but this is just bull honkey.

Wow, this is bad...

[hafenbrack]

I have read some bad and misleading stories before and this is one of the worst. HTC could almost see this as defamation to their name...making the reporter libel, since this story is so boviously slanted to shed positive ight on Apple.

[kineticarl]

Matt Hickey has single-handedly destroyed the whole entire world, and all the kittens and puppies that were inhabiting it.

[stigmattaman]

Still no fix? Seriously? Talk to Kent German, or Bonnie Cha, or do a Google search, or look at T-Mobile's Web site. Don't wait for this guy to respond because he obviously doesn't know much.

[stigmattaman]

Wait, you're wrong kineticarl:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/shiba-inu-puppy-cam

Puppies are okay. Haven't verified kitties though

[ekeefe41]

Seriously
T-mobile, Google, and HTC should sue CNET for slander. Honestly how can disinformation remain on this web page for this long?

This dis-information may actually cost the companies above Money.
Good luck CNET....

[ekeefe41]

Excuse me this would be libel (I'm not a laywer)

A type of defamation. Slander is an untruthful oral (spoken) statement about a person that harms the person's reputation or standing in the community. Because slander is a tort (a civil wrong), the injured person can bring a lawsuit against the person who made the false statement. If the statement is made via broadcast media -- for example, over the radio or on TV -- it is considered libel, rather than slander, because the statement has the potential to reach a very wide audience.

[walkingdead1]

see now it just doesn't make sense. before it was misleading now its just stupid.

[checodaman]

The article still makes no sense at all. They both mark up their phones approx 24~25% from the value you give. How is this a story at all???

If the article is fixed how is this still in there:
"What's not explained is why the G1 sells for twice the cost of the popular iPhone"

Cmon and just take down the article. It's *STILL* completely incorrect.