Watch Out AT&T
Best Buy Jumps in on iPhone Business
AT&T has had a sweet deal since the inception of the iPhone, being the only retailer authorized to sell it outside of Apple itself.
The free ride has ended, and as CBS News reported, Best Buy now has the availability to sell the iPhone from its 970 full-size stores and 16 smaller stores. They claim to have upgraded their computer systems to handle cell-phone activation and spent 250,000 hours training its employees, but from personal experience I would be slow to buy it there.
It is suspected that Radio Shack will be the next retailer to get in on the iPhone frenzy. They already sell AT&T phones, but not the iPhone. AT&T continues to be the authorized provider, but time will tell on that as well. What looks like a big windfall, could become a disaster if they don’t stay on top of the service side.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
My son has a new iphone, but I hid it because he wasn’t doing his summer school on-line work or his reading. That thing has so many applications, it is addicting. I am not sure it is a good idea. He bought it with most of his own money, but that is beside the point. Everyone else had one so he wanted one too. He loves these gadgets. I want him to focus on learning and using these things in his recreational time, not the other way around. Let’s see how it goes.