{"id":578187,"date":"2010-05-25T08:56:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T12:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:betanews.com,2007:article-1274792214"},"modified":"2010-05-25T08:56:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T12:56:53","slug":"wal-mart-cuts-iphone-3g-s-price-in-half-continues-apples-one-year-smartphone-life-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/578187","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart cuts iPhone 3G S price in half, continues Apple’s one-year smartphone life cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tim Conneally<\/a>, Betanews<\/a><\/p>\n

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The life cycle of smartphones has reached the point where a single year means the difference between cutting edge and cutout bin, and Apple looks to be following — if not driving — that trend.<\/p>\n

When the iPhone 3G S debuted last June, the price of the iPhone 3G was slashed to $99<\/a>. Today, one year later, we’re seeing the same thing happen to the 3G S. <\/p>\n

Though the latest model in Apple’s iPhone line has not been unveiled yet, America’s biggest retailer Wal-Mart has dropped the price of the iPhone 16GB 3GS to just $97<\/a> with a two-year AT&T contract; less than half of its former retail price. The 32 GB version, however, remains its same price of $297 with a two-year contract.<\/p>\n

The price cut comes just two weeks before Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference<\/a>, where CEO Steve Jobs is scheduled to deliver the keynote, potentially to unveil the next generation iPhone, which has already been pried apart before the public.<\/a><\/p>\n

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By Tim Conneally, Betanews The life cycle of smartphones has reached the point where a single year means the difference between cutting edge and cutout bin, and Apple looks to be following — if not driving — that trend. When the iPhone 3G S debuted last June, the price of the iPhone 3G was slashed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}