I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.
First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to lower the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399, and that now is the right time to do it. iPhone is a breakthrough product, and we have the chance to 'go for it' this holiday season. iPhone is so far ahead of the competition, and now it will be affordable by even more customers. It benefits both Apple and every iPhone user to get as many new customers as possible in the iPhone 'tent'. We strongly believe the $399 price will help us do just that this holiday season.
Second, being in technology for 30+ years I can attest to the fact that the technology road is bumpy. There is always change and improvement, and there is always someone who bought a product before a particular cutoff date and misses the new price or the new operating system or the new whatever. This is life in the technology lane. If you always wait for the next price cut or to buy the new improved model, you'll never buy any technology product because there is always something better and less expensive on the horizon. The good news is that if you buy products from companies that support them well, like Apple tries to do, you will receive years of useful and satisfying service from them even as newer models are introduced.
Third, even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of iPhone, and even though the technology road is bumpy, we need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price. Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these.
Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple's website next week. Stay tuned.
We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers. We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple.
Now, assuming the user experience stays totally under Apple's control (and it will as that is something Apple will and can defend), which of the several quasi-crappy carriers IS the best choice?
Perhaps 'smaller government' is code for smaller ethics, smaller worldview...smaller voter turnout. Vote the issues people!!
Or maybe I am wrong. Maybe it is just fun to say smaller! Smaller smaller smaller!
Sure must be new here. The funny part is that the summary used to say "iPods Run OS X" and now says "iPods Don't Run OS X". The "This is not a joke" in the blurb remains standing. Who meta-meta-meta-moderates the meta-meta-moderators here?!?!
The junkyard had fallen on hard times, with the collapse of the Los Angeles-area aerospace economy in the 1980s, but it's making something of a comeback now with NASA's new plans for moon and Mars missions.
Can't wait to take my first shuttle flight to Mars in that case.
"I have heard that there was once a beneficent non-habit-forming junk in India. It was called soma and is pictured as a beautiful blue tide. If soma ever existed the Pusher was there to bottle it and monopolize it and sell it and it turned into plain old time JUNK."
Wireless capability could be pretty nifty if it let you grab stuff off of each others players. Which is perfectly legal in the civilized world.
How about this as a compromise? Just add enough wireless capability to serve the catalog in XML format. It wouldn't eat much battery life to simply send out a little ping every couple of seconds. If you want to share music, you find this person nearby and physically hook up the devices. Or for the squeamish, connect over an extremely short-range IR port. Then you'd avoid the two main problems: the sucky battery life fanboys hate & the promisicuous sharing the RIAA fears.
I'd really like YouTube to cache a streaming QuickTime version and give you the option to receive it that way. The only insurmountable reason to use Flash is that it's harder to save the file locally, which is probably the last thing they want, being content couriers.
I am however sick of hearing the same unfunny, unclever, lame commentary on George Bush that obviously attempts to come across as clever. It's not clever, and I'm sick of hearing it. Similarly, I was sick of hearing incessant Clinton bashing in the 90s. It's just stupid.
In fact, all politicians are stupid.
Then pray tell, what's wrong with picking out one politician and ridiculing his decisions? Too politically incorrect for you?
And by the way, we liberals don't find George W. Bush funny anymore. Haven't for years. Too many bodies.
Same problem here. I posted something that was originally 5, Funny. Then after several responses, it was later in the day, marked down to -1, Troll. My karma never recovered.
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To all iPhone customers:
I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.
First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to lower the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399, and that now is the right time to do it. iPhone is a breakthrough product, and we have the chance to 'go for it' this holiday season. iPhone is so far ahead of the competition, and now it will be affordable by even more customers. It benefits both Apple and every iPhone user to get as many new customers as possible in the iPhone 'tent'. We strongly believe the $399 price will help us do just that this holiday season.
Second, being in technology for 30+ years I can attest to the fact that the technology road is bumpy. There is always change and improvement, and there is always someone who bought a product before a particular cutoff date and misses the new price or the new operating system or the new whatever. This is life in the technology lane. If you always wait for the next price cut or to buy the new improved model, you'll never buy any technology product because there is always something better and less expensive on the horizon. The good news is that if you buy products from companies that support them well, like Apple tries to do, you will receive years of useful and satisfying service from them even as newer models are introduced.
Third, even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of iPhone, and even though the technology road is bumpy, we need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price. Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these.
Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple's website next week. Stay tuned.
We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers. We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple.
Steve Jobs
Apple CEO
I'd say they both knew this was going to happen.
Now, assuming the user experience stays totally under Apple's control (and it will as that is something Apple will and can defend), which of the several quasi-crappy carriers IS the best choice?
Take a look around. It's either Finland or it's past both of our bedtimes.
Is it going to come back?
Perhaps 'smaller government' is code for smaller ethics, smaller worldview...smaller voter turnout. Vote the issues people!! Or maybe I am wrong. Maybe it is just fun to say smaller! Smaller smaller smaller!
Sure must be new here. The funny part is that the summary used to say "iPods Run OS X" and now says "iPods Don't Run OS X". The "This is not a joke" in the blurb remains standing. Who meta-meta-meta-moderates the meta-meta-moderators here?!?!
Sorry
Good analogy.
I date the screen shot from the fact that they're emailing each other on AOL.
Because it's only gonna be worse as time goes on...
Yep, another dupe!
I'd like to complain too since it will give me some karma.
The junkyard had fallen on hard times, with the collapse of the Los Angeles-area aerospace economy in the 1980s, but it's making something of a comeback now with NASA's new plans for moon and Mars missions. Can't wait to take my first shuttle flight to Mars in that case.
http://yardbird.com/william_s_burroughs_deposition .htm
Um, correct?
How about this as a compromise? Just add enough wireless capability to serve the catalog in XML format. It wouldn't eat much battery life to simply send out a little ping every couple of seconds. If you want to share music, you find this person nearby and physically hook up the devices. Or for the squeamish, connect over an extremely short-range IR port. Then you'd avoid the two main problems: the sucky battery life fanboys hate & the promisicuous sharing the RIAA fears.
I'd really like YouTube to cache a streaming QuickTime version and give you the option to receive it that way. The only insurmountable reason to use Flash is that it's harder to save the file locally, which is probably the last thing they want, being content couriers.
When we were their age we installed Ubuntu just to look at Goatse, and we were glad to get it!
Control freak of Slashdot!
Now YOU post control freak of Slashdot who!!!
Well, neither have been lawfully elected here yet.
In fact, all politicians are stupid.
Then pray tell, what's wrong with picking out one politician and ridiculing his decisions? Too politically incorrect for you?
And by the way, we liberals don't find George W. Bush funny anymore. Haven't for years. Too many bodies.
Same problem here. I posted something that was originally 5, Funny. Then after several responses, it was later in the day, marked down to -1, Troll. My karma never recovered.
That's what happened to me. Lots of Funny and a little Troll means I now post at -1. (Yes, borking moderation mememe)
What's your point, warwad?
If you pushed him, he'd probably come back with:
You can't imply that I am wrong, just because you have proven that I belong to a class of people who are wrong! That's a generalization!