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Crazy Stevie's iPhone Prices are Insaaane!
theodp writes "Slate takes a look at the alarming lesson of the iPhone price cut and ponders the long-term effects of a Fire-Sale Nation mentality, especially when companies go all Crazy Eddie slashing prices on products like homes and cars that have active secondary markets. 'High-profile price-chopping tends to occur whenever companies freak out about the vicious combination of a slowing consumer economy and the prospect of getting stuck with big inventories of unsold goods. The tactic often works in the short term. The hype over insanely low prices functions as a form of free advertising, and the lower prices tend to attract buyers. Apple announced on Sept. 10 that it had sold its 1 millionth iPhone.'"
Really, come on, I think the article informing customers they may want to opt-out of the Verizon upgrade, or maybe the new alpha ATI driver could have used this space. Is there anybody on here who is NOT sick of iPhone articles yet?
I can tell you why. Since recent time Slashdot become a target for paid posters who work in an attempt to influence stock prices: so called "pumpers" and "bashers". There's been a chain of anti-Apple articles here recently, which were very obviously work of paid bashers. Articles like that are normally very easy to recognize (as is the case with this one and with the recent ones posted here), which brings the question of why these articles were allowed to make their way to the front page of Slashdot, especially if one takes into account the fact that none of them were even close to being typical Slashdot material. Is someone high in the Slashdot's "chain of command" getting paid for it? Or is the basher's mob responsible for this?