Here’s what you do in the future to prevent this. You put details on the first release that shows, they have a status symbol. You do the cheaper release without the same detailing. This is purchased by the person that wants the cheap, affordable line which is released after a couple months.
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You mean, they are iDiots.
Call Hating @ 2:31
Since when have Apple users ever given a shit when the price was aritificially inflated?
My MIL was telling Ivylad about this elderly lady she knew, and how her children had all “chipped in” to buy her a new VCR.
I thought about it for a second, and said, “Aren’t VCRs like, $30 now?” We had to replace the VCR in our rental condo, and replaced it with a combo DVD/VCR, which was about $75.
Lesson learned people…the price will go down. If you must have the new toy on opening day, then you are trading price for patience. You don’t get to bitch about it later…if the price were more important than bragging rights on having the new toy before everybody else, then you would have waited.
Whether or not you think the complainers should complain, I think it’s actually quite a surprise that this happened as soon as it did. Apple, historically, has always tried to keep their prices high; iPod prices have almost never changed until the introduction of new models. It was reasonable to guess they might try to do the same with the iPhone.
To be honest I don’t really understand Apple’s strategy with the iPhone at all. I don’t understand why they still aren’t selling it outside the USA; I mean, I understand the technical complications, but not why they weren’t moving to set up partnerships with carriers outside the USA years ago. While they’re farting around selling to one carrier’s customers in the USA, the Blackberry people, who are selling devices that do pretty much the same shit, are going through the rainforests in the deepest jungles of Africa setting up carrier parternships and establishing market share and customer loyalty. Apple’s losing market share potential every day on this. That’s on top of the exclusivity arrangement with one carrier. It’s just weird; I can see trying to make the iPhone seem exclusive, but not to actually have it be exclusionary.
Um, no and no. It doesn’t really do a damn thing that PDA’s do, nor is it even slightly impressive as far as smartphones go. External memory cards? Change the battery? View flash websites? Java? You’re going to be on Cingular’s network, but no 3G? Mp3 ringtones? That’s pretty standard for most phones nowadays. Any document editing programs?
It’s not a damn smartphone. It’s certainly not a PDA. What it does, it does well, which is user friendly interface. But don’t kid yourselves, it’s not the technological wave of the future as far as actual smartphone users go.
Seriously. The only thing iSee that’s different from an ordinary phone here is the non-ergonomic interface. Phones haven’t needed two hands to operate since the rotary era.
Actually, no. They were for a while, but the technology is becoming obsolete (new films haven’t been released on VHS tape for years) and it’s now more expensive to buy a stand-alone VCR than it is to buy a combo DVD/VCR.
Doesn’t really fit the arguments in this thread though, as the technology is ancient.
Slacker,
Brilliant.
Dudes. PDA does not equal PHONE. A phone should function to make telephone calls. Other stuff is just a cool option, or in the case of Job’s newest gadget- a status symbol.
How did this stain get to write on any website with the word “business” in the title? Where does this weird, surreal misconception that things like phones have some kind of objective “worth” come from? What were people paying for it? $599? Guess what its worth was, dipshit.
This kind of reaction – not just from consumers, but from people in general, in all kinds of ways – has long been a pet peeve of mine.
In 7th Grade one time a classmate of ours who was absent and missed a test the previous day was being sent out of the class to take a make-up. As she left the teacher mentioned that her version of the test had a bonus question at the end that our version did not have, and that she should feel free to use it. Immediately, the whole class began to whine that it was unfair that she got the bonus and we didn’t, at which point the teacher got very upset and scolded us: ‘It doesn’t hurt you at all that she gets something you didn’t, so stop being selfish babies and just be happy for your friend.’ Or something to that effect.
That’s one of the few overt moral lessons that really stuck with me right away, and stayed stuck.
Has to be a Slacker-style whoosh.
I was coming in to mention the Bill Maher joke. “Repeal on the Nerd Tax” got him a pretty good ovation on Friday.
Anyone who went broke paying for the iPhone on Day 1 is just silly. But most of the buyers were well able to afford the nifty new toy.
I’m a very Late Adapter of technology. But I’m glad there are Pioneers who will invest in The Coming Thing. The technology eventually filters down to me.
And I hope the Pioneers have fun, too!