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.

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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.

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.