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If you're too obvious, it'll still get leaked, but with the signal redacted...]]>Dec 17th 2008 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 18th 2008 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/
- They are only selling to WalMart employees.
- Those employees are being selected in a raffle.
- "Winning" the raffle gives said employes the privilage of paying the same for an iPhone as if they walked into their local ATT or Apple store.

So as a pilot program, this is stupid.

Better still though - what does Apple have to gain from this? The iPhone is readily available at any ATT store and any area where ATT has deployed 3G is silly with ATT or Apple retail outlets. WalMart makes sense if Apple/ATT are going after customers in more rural areas where ATT/Apple retailers don't exist... but is gaining access to that market worth sullying the iPhone brand with the notoriously low market WalMart brand?

I am sure Apple's blue chip marketing and branding experts thought long and hard about that question, but I would love to hear their logic.]]>Dec 17th 2008 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 4:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/WRONG! They save $2!]]>Dec 17th 2008 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/
i love how you get a WHOPPING... 2dollar discount (wtf?!?)

not even the yellow smiley face can make the apple smile big enough to drop prices....until the bill comes of course ;]]]>Dec 17th 2008 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/
i would spite wallmart and buy it somewhere else anyway.]]>Dec 17th 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/
All stores "must" sell all five phones??? What if they can't find five employees willing to buy one? Are they going to force people to buy one, or else?
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If you read the letter, it does not at any point suggest that those selected by the raffle are lucky, are being given a right, are winners, or anything else positive. Go on, read it - it simply does not anywhere suggest that those selected by the raffle are winning anything.

That is being read into it by you lot, your Apple-hate makes you think, "oh, they said, 'raffle', so they must think the people selected are 'winners' !" but if you look at the letter without bias it is abundantly clear that Wal-Mart thinks the people selected are "the purchasers", not "winners".]]>Dec 17th 2008 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 5:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/
The store manager will be like "Buy an iPhone, or else!".]]>Dec 17th 2008 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/
"Each store must sell all five iPhones during the pilot."

What if there arent any employees who want to purchase an iPhone, or what if all of those interested already bought an iPhone from Apple/ATT? They _must_ sell them?]]>Dec 17th 2008 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 4:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/
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So are they basically forcing their employees to buy the phones?]]>Dec 17th 2008 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 5:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/
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Knowing Walmart they handed it to some 16/17 year old employee that can't sign or even agree to a NDA in the first place.]]>Dec 17th 2008 6:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/
Data plan is $30/month

-then add-
Cell phone plan options:
Nation Unlimited $99.99/month
Nation 1350 w/Rollover® Minutes $79.99/month
Nation 900 w/Rollover® Minutes $59.99/month
Nation 450 w/Rollover® Minutes $39.99/month

-want to text?-
Choose from:
Unlimited $20
1500/month $15
200/month $5
$.20 each

You can get out for $69.99 a month if you never practically never talk on your phone or text.]]>Dec 17th 2008 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/
@Jenny - thanks for rehashing the math for the 349,003,374th time. We get it. They're costly to own. You keep using your RAZR and don't worry about the rest of us. Of course, the other ten million iPhone users could be the dummies, and YOU are the wise one. But I doubt it.]]>Dec 17th 2008 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/
you are the reason i hate everything apple and all the f***ots who use their products. all a bunch of smug ***holes]]>Dec 17th 2008 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/
If I was making $7 an hour at Wal Mart during a recession, I sure as hell wouldn't want to be spending $200 on a cell phone right now.]]>Dec 17th 2008 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/Dec 17th 2008 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/walmart-iphone-on-sale-the-28th-for-a-lot-more-than-99/
Seriously people, this "ohhhh noes, Wal-Mart is gonna sell the iPhone and this is bad because their employees are all underpaid and stupid!" attitude is getting a little old. ]]>Dec 17th 2008 9:00PM