That sounds like suicide... Something about money over/ under 1000 ..maybe its just crazy me I don't know.
I suspect the price will be $1000 for a number of reasons and that lots of people just want clicks by claiming highest price evar!!!!!!
1) if you look at the specs of CPU, RAM, screen size, flash storage, etc. They are comparable to what apple, samsung, etc have been charging $899-999 unsubsidized pricing for when new.
2) nothing to date indicates they are using inherently expensive materials or devices in the phone. For example sapphire instead of glass. You can build more production capacity, but the only way to make it so far is building it up by growing crystals in one of a few ways, and that is inherently slow and inherently costly to scale to large slabs. It's a cost that wouldn't radically decrease in 6 months.
3) Since everything that might be pricey on it is likely short term initial yield issues that will get solved once you get good at it, which you will making it for iphone scale volume, it'll just come off as price gouging. So apple can either sell out in 4 nanoseconds and claim unprecedented popularity for months on end, or get short lived headlines of price gouging douche bags. All while likely making no more money per unit as their negotiatted price is likely based on longer term cost projections and not initial yield.
Until recently $1000 was thrown around a lot, and given where it falls compared to other apple units and the competition, that seems pretty defensible. I suspect that with various capaciy options, one of them may very well be $1200.
The real question is even if the $1000 price tag is true, will enough people buy into it and will the non flagship models attract users. Because looking at the leaks, the "non-pro"/7s or 7pro s or whatever they wind up being called look very, very non compelling compared to the 7 which wasn't very compelling compare to the 6s. Making a serious launch of ultra-beige plus overpriced kind of cool would be bad.