Any thoughts on the price cuts ?
http://www.macworld.com/article/132838/2008/04/iphoneprice.html
BTW apples website also just annouced the release of version 3 of the Beta SDK
My thought is that T-Mobile is setting the price and subsidizing the iPhone in Gernany. Apple has only one Apple Store in Germany (IIRC) and therefore T-Mobile is almost the sole source... and the sole service provider. The only way you get the €99 price is by signing up for a two year contract with their highest priced package... which is €89 or $140 US per month. You get a lesser package and the iPhone is still €339 or $525 US. T-Mobile is top feeding to get people who desire the iPhone who have the where-with-all to pay for the highest package.
I think, also, that we are probably seeing a movement to close off the low end 8G iPhone and suspect we will see a 16G/32G product line-up in the near future. The Wall Street Journal thinks that Apple will intro a G3 version in the next 60 days as well. That will sell much better in Europe than in the US because the Europeans have about a 40% G3 coverage compared to about a 4-5% G3 coverage in the US.