No credit card, no iPhone
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People looking to walk into an Apple retailer and buy an&#160;iPhone&#160;with cash will be out of luck. The company is now accepting only credit or debit card payments for the devices so they can track who purchases the phone, according to an employee at the Apple Store in New York&#39;s SoHo neighborhood.The new policy is Apple&#39;s attempt to prevent people from purchasing and then unlocking and reselling iPhones, a situation that has been a problem for the company. Apple won&#39;t let anyone without a credit card or debit card in their name purchase iPhones, according to an unidentified Apple Store employee in a phone interview.&quot;We need to track the purchases of the iPhone [because] we have people buying the phones, unlocking the phones and selling them,&quot; she said.A report by the Associated Press last week said Apple was limiting the purchases to two devices and allowing users to purchase them only with credit or debit cards. According to store employees, the two-device limit has always been in place, but the noncash policy is new.Apple&#39;s public relations team did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the new policy. However, it&#39;s no secret the company is trying to stem the tide of unlocked and resold phones, now totaling about 250,000. Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook mentioned that number last week in a quarterly results conference call as the difference between the number of handsets sold -- approximately 1.4 million -- and those actually connecting via AT&amp;T Wireless, the iPhone&#39;s exclusive U.S. carrier.If one analyst&#39;s estimate is correct, those unlocked phones are costing Apple millions of dollars. Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster said that he believes Apple receives US$18 per iPhone per month from AT&amp;T Wireless, based on iPhone-related revenue Apple reported in its latest quarterly earnings , totaling more than $4.5 million in lost revenue.REFERENCES:AT&amp;T paying Apple $18 per iPhone per month?, Macworld.co.uk, Oct. 25, 2007Apple: 250,000 iPhones unlocked from AT&amp;T, Network World (US), Oct. 25, 2007
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I resisted shopping online for the longest time. I feared my credit card number would be stolen and I would spend a few years of my life trying to explain that I did not buy a Hummer with my Visa card.
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I resisted shopping online for the longest time. I feared my credit card number would be stolen and that I would spend a few years of my life trying to explain that I did not buy a Hummer with my Visa card.
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OK, so you were the first one on the block with an iPod. But just having one isn't enough anymore, because everyone has one. To be cool, you're going to need something more.
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New cordless phones let users of the Internet phone service make calls without a computer.
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Blog: One analyst firm thinks Apple can juice up its iPod product lineup simply by releasing an iPhone without the phone or Internet capabilities.
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Consumers planning to buy the iPhone at the end of the month will need an iTunes Store account to activate the device.
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I might want to get an iPhone, but will the service work at my house?
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Kevin Tofel explains how to use an iPhone as a portable handheld photo gallery using the beautiful AP wire photos and FlickrFan.   I did a Qik video demo using my Nokia N95. Lots of computers involved, the quality ain't great but the idea is pretty neat.
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Too cheap to buy your own but like holding the sexy little device? Here's a tongue-in-cheek guide for borrowing an iPhone.
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Massachusetts-based start-up has created a way to print photographs or documents without ink or an ink cartridge. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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InfoWorld - How badly do you want an&#160;iPhone? Would you pay $1,500 to buy one? How about $300 for someone to wait on line for you?
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Federal legislation bans credit-card payments, but sites have alternatives.
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Don't want pay a credit monitoring service? Do it yourself.
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The day may be coming when PCs, cell phones and many other devices will be run without a battery or electrical cord.
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Next, you could have a Motorola mobile phone with MasterCard PayPass to help you spend money faster. &quot;This is layering on more features to make the cell phone
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-- Wal-Mart will start selling prepaid Visa debit cards that don't require a credit check or bank account, the company said Wednesday.