There is always a new iPhone coming out, which is bigger and better than the las...

masklinn · on June 28, 2010

That's sufficiently not true as to be completely false.

mkramlich · on June 28, 2010

Douglas Adams? Dude, welcome back from the grave.

megablast · on June 28, 2010

The difference being, that a new iPhone comes out once a year, at around the same time. So you can buy a new iPhone now, realising that there is no point updating it for a year.

jrockway · on June 28, 2010

With mandatory two-year contracts, that makes for potential unhappiness.

megablast · on June 28, 2010

Nope.

You can buy it outright in most of the world.

Lots of places have 12 month contracts (Optus in Australia).

And lots of companies are letting you get out early (ATT).

There seems to be lots of lies in this thread, something I don't expect to see on hacker news.