Verizon iPhone 4, 5 pre-iPhone brings Apple prices enigma

Verizon iPhone 4 is played in a sandbox very different from what the iPhone has historically played in. Thanks to AT & T unit in the iPhone and the lack of the company of many other things in terms of smartphones, the iPhone has been the dominant model in its sole U.S. carrier. But the iPhone 4 in the sandbox Verizon is looking for a very different set of standards. While prices of existing Apple iPhone ($ 199 and $ 299 for the iPhone 4, $ 99 for 3G iPhone) is not generally considered too expensive, the iPhone 4 never exactly competed with the free phones offered contract other areas or even frequent Verizon buy one Droid, Droid get another free "campaigns of recent times. And while the second has more to do with the dumping inventory ahead of iPhone launch Verizon 4, which serves to show the kind of environment that the iPhone 4 Verizon will be competing in - especially when you consider that the 3G iPhone is almost certainly not make its way to the Verizon side of the fence, which means that until the iPhone to Verizon 5 shows later and the iPhone 4 is discarded bargains in the process, the iPhone will be looking an entry price tag of $ 199 for Verizon customers. And that's something Apple has to take into account. Apple customers have been willing to pay more for an Apple product for a competitive product, and while the anti-Apple geeks say it is out of fanboyism or some other insult and ill-defined, users of Apple hastens to note that Apple products are generally superior enough - but not always in the specifications, then certainly in terms of usability and functionality of the real world, unlike the theoretical feature lists that geeks can not make use of ) - Apple's products are a lot of competitive prices. And the iPhone 4 Verizon $ 199 will have no problem in terms of selling to Verizon customers who have already made up his mind who want a Verizon iPhone when they can get their hands on one. But when it gets to Verizon customers can not make up his mind, which are more susceptible to suggestions from employees of the store biased than they should, and those who consider price to be their main if not only the purchase of the factors, Apple will be challenged to determine a new iPhone for Verizon pricing scheme. If Verizon's iPhone four really comes in January and the iPhone, Verizon June 5, then Apple can feel safe in a laminate with him, thinking he can get away with a floor price of $ 199 for the iPhone for Verizon half a year before the iPhone and the iPhone is going to $ 4 99. But if the dates are not correct or the initial impetus for Verizon's iPhone does not last as long as Apple might expect, then Apple will have to consider reducing prices for the iPhone 4 Verizon right of the door - that Apple will probably not could get away with less than AT & 4 T iPhone pricing follows suit. In that case all bets are off, as Apple then would be faced with significantly less revenue by iPhone sold in the same units selling much more to be competitive in two U.S. companies.