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That price for an unlocked iPhone is just plain crazy-talk. Considering you can pick up a 16GB iPod Touch for much less and only lose the phone function. Apple probably set that figure to attempt to ward off people tempted to purchase one, and as mentioned earlier, they probably get a sizable kick-back from from the phone contracts. The iPhone cannot cost that much to manufacture, considering a top-rate PocketPC usually only runs $350-500 and they do almost the same thing (while not looking as pretty); though the SSD drive might be an expensive factor, I don't know.
I think it's just Apple's price fixing scheme trying dominate their closed market; e.g., iPod. I know for a fact that Apple pays each company who sells their products a set amount of PR funds for advertising and they also dictate what their product should be sold at. If a company was to sell it for less than the MSRP, Apple yanks their advertising funds and could pull the company's supply lines for Apple products as well. Guerrilla marketing at it's best!
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