Quick: How much does an iPhone 6 cost? If you read this blog at all, you probably know that answer can range wildly depending on a variety of factors: how much storage it’s got, whether it’s subsidized, what carrier it’s on and what coverage you’ve got. Even so, would you ever guess that an iPhone 6 costs $7,500? Well, that’s just what two contestants on The Price Is Right did on a recent episode of the show.
On the New Year’s Edition of the popular daytime game show, host Drew Carey asked four contestants to tell him how much a 16GB iPhone 6 with a one-year plan featuring unlimited talk, text and 4GB of data would cost. It’s important to note here that he was asking for the full value of the phone: an unsubsidized 16GB iPhone 6, which retails for $629, plus 12 monthly payments for the data, talk and text.
The actual price of all of this, as tallied by the show, is $1,969, which seems about right: $629 up front, and then a monthly bill of $108.33. But that’s not what Carey’s contestants thought.
One guessed the iPhone costs $7,500, while the next guest guessed $7,501. The third and fourth contestants guessed $850 and $930, respectively. Obviously, the $930 guess won it, but not before Carey quipped: “I hope the marketing people at Apple are watching this.”
My takeaway is a little sadder, though. Are people really so bad with finances they don’t know how much they’re paying when they sign up for an iPhone contract?
Via: iPhone In Canada
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
4 responses to “No one on The Price Is Right knows what an iPhone costs”
” an unsubsidized 16GB iPhone 6, which retails for $629″
Shouldn’t you know that an unsubsidized 16GB iPhone 6 retails for $649 not $629?
Also the price is with a year subscription
If it was made of Adamantium, I’m sure it would be $7000.
Or (author) maybe these folks have never bought an iPhone?! I never had an iPhone until now. The 6+ was exactly what I was wanting from Apple and I decided to wait, I wanted one last year, and it paid off! I know you eat, breath, and live Apple but not everybody does. I wouldn’t expect my mother to know how much an iPhone cost, for example. Silly for you to assume these people don’t have a hold of their finances because they don’t know how much an iPhone is!