Apple Legend Woz Blasts iPhone Price Drop

Stony Stevenson writes "Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak Saturday blasted Steve Jobs' decision to drop the price of the iPhone by $200 just two months after the product was launched. Said Woz: 'Everyone expects technology to drop in price. The first adopters always pay a premium. I am one of them. I am used to that. But that one was too soon, too harsh ... A lot of people from Apple, even a lot of people that worked on the Apple Lisa and Macintosh computers in the beginning now work at Google. The thinking over at Google is very much like early Apple days. The fact that they give people time off to work on their own ideas is exactly matches some of the things that made Apple great. I wish Apple did that.'" We just discussed the price drop last night.

Comments

Haha.

[kraemate]

This guy has reason to be miffed. Didn't he buy, what, 4 of those iphones on the first day or something?

Just did?

[biocute]

We just discussed the price drop last night.

Then instead of starting a new story, why didn't Woz contribute to that discussion?

That is what makes Slashdot great. I wish he did that.

Apple advertiser slashdot runs third iphone ad!

[plasmacutter]

disclaimer, loyal user of mac computing platforms, self avowed telephone luddite! (if I want my phone to play videos and surf the web i'll run voip on a LAPTOP)

In the news today, the long time apple astroturfing ground, slashdot, has run the third iphone ad in the past 48 hours, topping all records for coverage of apple products since the launch of macos X.4 tiger.

Cowboy neal has yet to respond to questions regarding possible payola or hijacking of the firehose system : )

Re:Supply and Demand

[Ripping Silk]

I'm in New Zealand, and today I saw a local 'parallel importing' house advertise iphones modded to work with the local vodafone GSM network, for the princely sum of... wait for it... $NZ1199.. that, at todays conversion rate is $US892 !!! These I would suggest come with no warranty or official support as they have been modified outside Apple specs. You'd hafta be keen !

Translation

[LaTechTech]

"Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak Saturday blasted Steve Jobs' decision to drop the price of the iPhone by $200 just two months after the product was launched.

Translation: I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Well at least the Lisa owners got a store credit

[mozumder]

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2007/09/jobs-offers-apple-lisa-early-adopters-store-credit.html/

RTFA guys

[Edmund Blackadder]

Ok Apple fanboys, before you start flaming Woz and or biting your nails in despair over having to choose between Jobs and Woz, you should read the entire article.

Woz was not nearly as confrontational as the slashdot summary suggests. Also, the summary combines to quotes from completely different and unrelated parts of the interview which is pretty confusing (no Google has nothing to do with Iphone pricing). Also, Woz said that he thinks that Apple is still more innovative, even though he said all these nice things about innovation at Google.

So yeah, the slashdot summary was very sensationalistic and misleading. So no need to tear down that topless Woz poster from your bedroom wall just yet.

Re:Is this who's on top syndrome?

[bentcd]

I'm curious about all the Apple bashing? Apparantly, Apple customers come across as smug bastards and, in a twist of irony, Linux users seem to really really dislike smug bastards. Or perhaps it's just smug bastards from a different camp they dislike, it's a bit unclear. Anyway, this tends to transfer over into any discussion involving Apple regardless of the underlying facts of the matter. The only thing that is holding Slashdot together at the seams is the unsurprising coincident that both smugh Mac-owners and smug Linux-users both harbour an overpowering dislike for Microsoft (which isn't smug, just evil). So long as this tenuous alliance is kept alive with the odd Microsoft-bashing article every now and then, our little community shall prevail! :-)

For the record: I own two Windows boxes, two Linux boxes and one OSX box. I use most of them on a regular basis, for various purposes.