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I live in Mexico City. Advertising Mad City, with iPhone displays everywhere. Yes, now we are part of the second generation of Apple's 3G iPhone's worldwide expansion. I heard Steve Jobs saying "It will cost 200 USD worldwide" at its intro keynote.
After knowing Mexican monopolist company's monthly rates (Telcel) I abandoned the idea of getting one. For the same price (+/- $60 USD, according to your magazine's articles), in the US you get 5 Gb of data transfer instead of ...250 Mb! I felt stolen. Furthermore, you have to pay $500 USD for the phone.

Last week, passing by a callular store, I asked for the price of just the device and I was surprised of knowing that in Mexico the iPhone costs $1,000 USD! I told the salesperson, "hey, I was told that it would cost $200 worldwide", and his answer, "that's in the USA..."


Now I realize that Jobs is too naive or he lied to us, members of the rest of the countries of world.


How is it possible that Apple makes this kind of association with these kind of devouring companies? Well, not for nothing the owner (Carlos Slim) is the second or third richest man on Earth.

Here an image I created on this.

Thanx.