[mrout]

>That argument might have worked in back in the day when the iPhone was only available on AT&T but not in a world where the iPhone is available to more people than it ever has been before.

The iPhone is incredibly expensive. While you and your rich software developer friends might have iPhones, the vast majority of phones sold are not iPhones. They're Android phones. You can get an Android phone for $50 or less. You cannot get an iPhone for much under $1000 in NZ.