Can't find a price without contract otherwise people say it was 499 to 599 and it was already mocked as too high, the only reason it reached 1k is because of the market share they got at one point they realized people are willing to pay much higher now that premium iPhone became a status symbol specially outside the US, that and a whole generation of fanboys who think smartphones = iPhone and can't/wont use anything else...
Can't find a price without contract otherwise people say it was 499 to 599 and it was already mocked as too high, the only reason it reached 1k is because of the market share they got at one point they realized people are willing to pay much higher now that premium iPhone became a status symbol specially outside the US, that and a whole generation of fanboys who think smartphones = iPhone and can't/wont use anything else...
It was $600 on launch day with a $300 early termination fee on the contract. Resellers were hawking them for $1k easy.