Re: iPhone sales rather poor - FT report

In message gkreme-D84674.17400621012008@news.giganews.com,
Lewis <gkreme@gmail.com> Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

> In article
> <19550a0c-4d65-4684-b59e-a777c3fed193@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
> zoara.willy@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> see
>> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a2787f00-c...0779fd2ac.html
>
> "O 2 said shortly before the iPhone's UK launch on November 9 that it
> expected handset sales of 200,000 in the first two months, but people
> familiar with the situation said the actual figure for the first eight
> weeks was about 190,000."
>
> This is what passes for news? They missed a sales target by 5%?
>
>> The 02 tariff is really sucky.
>
> What 02 tariff?
>

If you want to buy an iPhone in the UK, it has to be on O2 (a network
provider) and it has be on one specific O2 Tariff, and to be fair, that
tarif IS pretty sucky... (very expensive, compared to many other tariffs for
what you get in terms of texts and inclusive minutes)

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In message gkreme-184EA5.04583322012008@news.giganews.com,
Lewis <gkreme@gmail.com> Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

> In article <G-SdnZvr6P_XXQjanZ2dnUVZ8q-rnZ2d@bt.com>,
> "ChrisM" <chris_mayersblue@suedeyahoo.com> wrote:
>> In message gkreme-D84674.17400621012008@news.giganews.com,
>> Lewis <gkreme@gmail.com> Proclaimed from the tallest tower:
>>> In article
>>> <19550a0c-4d65-4684-b59e-a777c3fed193@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
>>> zoara.willy@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> The 02 tariff is really sucky.
>>>
>>> What 02 tariff?
>>>
>>
>> If you want to buy an iPhone in the UK, it has to be on O2
>
> Yes, but he said 02 not O2. Had he said O2 I would have know what he
> was talking about; 02 made no sense at all.

Oh come on Mr Pedant!! :-P

If you know who O2 are, you must have been able to guess that's what he
meant when he said 02...




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In message gkreme-5977DB.05362222012008@news.giganews.com,
Lewis <gkreme@gmail.com> Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

> In article <u_OdndCHW49UQwjanZ2dnUVZ8u-dnZ2d@bt.com>,
> "ChrisM" <chris_mayersblue@suedeyahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> In message gkreme-184EA5.04583322012008@news.giganews.com,
>> Lewis <gkreme@gmail.com> Proclaimed from the tallest tower:
>>
>>> In article <G-SdnZvr6P_XXQjanZ2dnUVZ8q-rnZ2d@bt.com>,
>>> "ChrisM" <chris_mayersblue@suedeyahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> In message gkreme-D84674.17400621012008@news.giganews.com,
>>>> Lewis <gkreme@gmail.com> Proclaimed from the tallest tower:
>>>>> In article
>>>>> <19550a0c-4d65-4684-b59e-a777c3fed193@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
>>>>> zoara.willy@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>> The 02 tariff is really sucky.
>>>>>
>>>>> What 02 tariff?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you want to buy an iPhone in the UK, it has to be on O2
>>>
>>> Yes, but he said 02 not O2. Had he said O2 I would have know what
>>> he was talking about; 02 made no sense at all.
>>
>> Oh come on Mr Pedant!! :-P
>>
>> If you know who O2 are, you must have been able to guess that's what
>> he meant when he said 02...
>
> Nope, I though he meant some '2002 tariff'. I'm not in the UK, and we
> don't call cell phone plans 'tariffs' so the connection was not made.
> At all.
>
> On this side of the pond a tariff is a tax applied to imports, not a
> rate plan contract.

Ok, fair enough, given the potential for confusion between our two versions
of the same language (US and UK), I retract the 'Mr Pedant' accusation...
:-)


( From Wikipedia:

"Tariff may also mean:
a schedule of prices or terms of how a product is sold, as in an electricity
tariff published by an electric utility or electricity retailer. This would
typically list the prices (or rates) for various services or components of
the service..." )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_...ambiguation%29


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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:24:35 +0000, ChrisM wrote
(in article <Q7SdnajiB8ZGYQjanZ2dnUVZ8qqlnZ2d@bt.com>):

> ( From Wikipedia:

Or Mac OS X dictionary:

tariff |?tarif|
noun
a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.
€ a list of these taxes.
€ a table of the fixed charges made by a business, esp. in a hotel or
restaurant.
verb [ trans. ]
fix the price of (something) according to a tariff : these services are
tariffed by volume.
ORIGIN late 16th cent. (also denoting an arithmetical table): via
French from Italian tariffa, based on Arabic ?arrafa Œnotify.¹









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