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Apple Gives $100 Store Credit To iPhone Customers
MooRogue writes "In an open letter to all iPhone customers, Steve Jobs responds to hundreds of emails from upset iPhone customers. Apple will be giving early adopters who are not receiving rebates or any other consideration $100 store credit at the Apple store.
Details will be posted on the Apple website next week"
I just found 1300 iPhones in a dumpster. That's $130,000!
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
The dumpster hungers.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
If everyone that purchased an iPhone, goes out and purchases an iTouch for $100 less, how will Apple ever make any money?
Damn you apple! Now I have no more excuse to not buy that 160GB iPod classic... Somehow I feel like they will actually get a net profit from this move.
I, for one, welcome our new karma-whore sig writing overlords
... and send the request to Vastech, located on Bonaventura Drive in San Jose.
This is the "market will bare" guy.
I thought that was Larry Flynt.
(You don't mean "bear," do you?)
Don't buy stuff from naked people...
Unfortunately I only bought my iphone because my beloved Samsung D807 suffered a premature demise.
That said, I think most of us early adopters aren't angry so much that we might have saved $200 by waiting, but by the fact that all kinds of riffraff can now afford the most fabulous object in the world. We paid a premium to assert our superiority and now we have to hear: "Oh, you bought it before the price drop?"
Hmmm... I'm trying to decipher this. Is English not your first language? Are you saying there's something with my anatomy? Are you saying someone should copulate with me until I cease to function?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I guess you didn't get in on the Vonage IPO then.
So they bought their phone on eBay, 'cause they were all out, or 'cause they got it for $559 ("cheapest price on the Internet!"). Now they have no recourse to "their $100" and just to rub salt in the wound, the guy who bought it at the store gets another $100.
Or, the guys all trying to sell the iPhones for $559 just had "their market" bottom out. To sell, they have to get price-competitive. There's a $100 pantsing they have to suffer.
Whoops! Speculation has its price!
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So, by 2019, it'll be Christmas year-round? Yay!!
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Is intel going to send them a free core?
:)
The mental image of some geek at his house opening the mail to find a little 40 mm^2 (or whatever the area of a single xeon core is these days) piece of silicon and going "wtf am i going to do with this?!" made me laugh. Thanks
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There are Zune owners?
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Hey Steve,
I'm pissed. I didn't buy an iPhone because I was waiting for the price to drop. And, now your'e refunding a big part of the price cut.
I missed out on all the ohs and ahs of showing one off. You owe me big time.
Hell, if you pay $400 for a phone, you're a complete moron.
ROFL. I spent more than that taking your mom to dinner last night. Goddamn, that woman can eat.
"This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence" - Vyvyan "The Young Ones"
Clearly spoken by someone who is not an Apple customer. While what you say is true for many markets, it is historically NOT true for Apple. Their products never really drop in price. They introduce new models and slide everything else down, yes (consistently every 6, 9 or 12 months), but their overall price lineup remains more or less constant. Their products NEVER go on sale. It is this historical trust that has been violated here. They did not introduce a new model iPhone that slid ours down the scale, and even if they had it would be WAY ahead of schedule, this was just a straight up price cut - a practically unprecented event in the Apple world. That is why so many of us felt violated. There's just a "way things are done" in the Apple world, and they've deviated from that significantly here.
I think they realized that they had set the opening price a little too high. If the top end had sold for $499, they would have sold more at the opening, and then nobody would have objected to $100 price cut. What do the early adopters think, they bought real estate instead of a rapidly-devaluating piece of personal electronics? A $200 drop, so soon, made the upper classes feel ripped off, instead of bravely paying off the development costs for the rest of us. Show a little damn noblesse oblige, iPhone nobility. Keep paying the premium price for your phones, so they can lower the price to $299, at which point, I bite. The lower classes will thank you brave price pioneers. Scratch me behind the ear and I will tug my forelock for you. No, it doesn't mean that. The forelock is the little tuft of hair in the front of your head that the serfs would tug at to show obeisance.