{"id":7169,"date":"2012-12-13T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2012-12-13T07:52:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T12:52:04","slug":"should-we-pay-more-for-our-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/should-we-pay-more-for-our-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Should We Pay More For Our Phones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/121312_1213_ShouldWePay1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Yglesias writes that we should really appreciate T-Mobile&#8217;s latest scheme to double the price you pay for a smartphone:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Subsidized smartphone contracts are a scam. Verizon will, for example, purchase an iPhone for $649, sell it to you for $199, and then make it up by overcharging you for service every month.<\/li>\n<li>You would actually save money if instead you paid full price for the phone and paid a fair monthly fee for your contract.<\/li>\n<li>This is likely why the makers of phones themselves \u2013 such as Google and Apple \u2013 are consistently ranked as the most admired companies, while America&#8217;s telecom operators, AT&amp;T and Verizon are the most reviled.<\/li>\n<li>T-Mobile has decided to get rid of the subsidized carrier model. It remains to be seen if Americans will choose to take this better deal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about why Americans are stuck with this inefficient system, and what can be done to fix it over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/moneybox\/2012\/12\/t_mobile_end_smartphone_subsidies_paying_more_for_your_phone_is_good_for.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/moneybox\/2012\/12\/t_mobile_end_smartphone_subsidies_paying_more_for_your_phone_is_good_for.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias writes that we should really appreciate T-Mobile&#8217;s latest scheme to double the price you pay for a smartphone: Subsidized smartphone contracts are a scam. Verizon will, for example, purchase an iPhone for $649, sell it to you for $199, and then make it up by overcharging you for service every month. You would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/121312_1213_ShouldWePay1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7179,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions\/7179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}