A user on the iTalkiPhone forums has posted a method which allows you to bypass Apple’s online contract sign-up while purchasing a new iPhone. Apparently over a dozen users have already purchased contract-less iPhone by using this method.
It doesn’t give you the subsidized price of $199/$299, or anything different than a regular iPhone, but it does get you a phone with no contract agreement. For users looking to buy a new iPhone to use on a another service provider without the hassle of signing up and canceling an AT&T plan, this would be a good option.
We’re still not sure if orders placed using this method will actually ship or if Apple will be able to tell which orders were placed through this method and hit the cancel button. We’re also not condoning this, and have only placed the link for recreational and entertainment purposes.
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Developers who signed up for Apple’s iPhone SDK Beta and iTunes Connect contracts when the iphone SDK was first released, are cutting it close to their one-year renewal deadline.
The only problem is Apple has yet to implement a system in order to handle these renewals.
Erica sadun initially investigated this topic by contacting Apple’s headquarters which sent her to the SDK help center, which eventually sent her back to the starting point as no one had any idea how to handle this mistake. She reports the following:
Apple has now e-mailed iPhone developers to extend their memberships until July 11, 2009. A short-term solution to the problem is good, but it shows that Apple is still working out the longer-term details.
While this does provide a short-term solution to Apple’s mistake, hopefully Apple can step and implement a proper renewal service in the short future.
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