Why?

Why slash the price of the iPhone in half but then charge the customer an arm and a leg just to use it? Why offer all of these brilliant applications and internet capabilities but then limit us to only a fraction of them due to poor data plans? Why shut out a huge number of potential iPhone users before they even have a chance to try the product, all because they can't afford the overpriced plan? I mean, wasn't that the reason our buddy Mr. Jobs cut the price of the iPhone by 50% in the first place, because "56% of people said it was too expensive"?

Get the the consumer's hopes up and then shoot em down.