Comments on: Apple’s iPhone Price Cut Wounds Early Adopters, Wreaks Havoc on my Wallet

By: tanuj

tanuj — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:38:02 +0000

i want to buy an i-phone 3g at low price

By: A little surprised at Apple

A little surprised at Apple — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:54:33 +0000

[...] from what I am reading on the different Apple blogs I read, it sounds like there are a few bloggers/readers out there that are a little unhappy [...]

By: Meh_Whatever

Meh_Whatever — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:50:24 +0000

I think the 100-dollar credit is fair enough. I bought 2 of those things on June 29.

Honestly, I expected a price drop before the holidays. Did I expect a 200-dollar price drop? Nah. I expected something like 100 dollars, really.

I half wonder if maybe this whole ‘we dropped it 200 bucks, so what?’ followed quickly by ‘oh! you’re such loyal fans, here’s a store credit’ isn’t really just a PR stunt.

Apple is notorious for stuff like that.

Truth is, the die-hard Apple core (no pun intended) would get over this, and would STILL be early adopters.

But giving this credit, it makes Steve Jobs look like a prince. Very clever.

Not that that will stop me from nabbing my 200 bucks in credits.

Those of you who feel REALLY violated: welcome to the world of Early Adoption, Apple-style.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:28:47 +0000

Steve has addressed the issue and is issuing a $100 credit for the Apple stores:

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/

I feel better now. Kinda.

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:55:35 +0000

Ok I know I was not so smart as to buy an item so early on, but Apple almost never drops prices that dramatically. Do I think it stinks? YES. Do I expect my money back? Not really. Am I allowed to be upset? I think so. What makes me more angry is the way Steve Jobs is so arrogant about it. And then to shove it in our faces by flipping us the bird! How rude! We are his biggest supporters and he has zero respect for us. Do you think I’ll support him again? Probably not.

By: Kent Pribbernow

Kent Pribbernow — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:34:04 +0000

As I said in an earlier comment, this news doesn't alarm or astonish me, other than its unexpected timing.

I look at this way...the consumer electronics industry is based on planned obsolescence. It is a marked for disposable technology, and nobody obsoletes products at a faster burn rate than Apple. I knew going in that my iPhone was a first generation product destined for devaluation and eBay listing, just months from purchase. I don't exactly relish the thought, but its reality.

When Apple announces a second generation iPhone product, I'll be right there in line waiting for my next fix like the techno-crackhead that I am. C’est la vie.

By: Norman

Norman — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:22:55 +0000

bobrsta, it could also mean that they found a better way (more affordable way) to produce the iPhone. Maybe parts are cheaper for them now or they cut a deal with the manufacturer that allows them to do so. Now that it’s been shown that iPhone can deliver, and competition is close behind, big price cuts help the consumer overall. Yeah, you paid more, but next time you might be paying even less than $400 for an iPhone that’s better than what’s out right now.

By: bobrsta

bobrsta — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:05:08 +0000

It's the size of the price drop that's annoying. They are NOT going to sell another 9 million of these things at a loss just to meet their 10 mil goal. That means they were overcharging on the first ones. I wasn't an "early adopter", bought the thing a month ago when I was finally sick of my treo, but as an Apple loyalist (my first computer was the 512K almost original Mac), this does piss me off.

Some way to treat your loyal customers without whom Apple would be nowhere.

By: Zordar

Zordar — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:51:59 +0000

This is what you get for deciding that you had to have an iPhone the day it came out. Anything that new and heavily hyped would either a) have issues and b) drop in price. All those people who stood in line to buy an XBOX 360 or a PS3 aren't demanding their money back because the price dropped.

I have to wonder if the people who are angry are questioning the value of their precious phone. You paid for the privilege of having your phone FIRST on DAY ONE before everyone else. This is the price for insisting on being FIRST. The people who were patient, or who were on the fence because of price, are now getting an additional incentive to buy.

If you regret your purchase that much that a price drops makes you feel insecure, next time try harder to resist that urge to be FIRST on your block. It's a phone, not a status symbol.

By: Steve Jobs Flips Early Adopters the Bird, Says “That’s Life” : The iPhone Blog

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:51:10 +0000

[...] what happens in technology.” I know that statement is sure to rub salt in many open wounds. Sorry guys, but you didn’t really expect him to hand out free iPod nanos to early adopters, [...]