8GB iPhone Price Drop, 4GB iPhone Discontinued

[Teddy's]

Lots of microsoft people *ahem! trolls* in this thread... "I wanna sue, I wanna sue. I am unhappy. I hate apple"

hehe, C'mon, you are all lucky you live in a country with iPhone, unlike here in Canada where the iPhone is expected around the year 2012!!!

 

[thechidz]

Come on guys.
Instead of whining about it on a forum, there are ways to get your $200 back.

Many credit cards have price protection guarantee.

Citibank Credit Card: https://www.citicards.com/cards/wv/copy.do?screenID=1200 - up to $250 within 60 days.

I've started a thread at FW so people can post other credit card guarantees: http://www.fatwallet.com/t/52/762417/

this is interesting... do you know anything about washington mutual cc policies????

 

[Eduardo1971]

Nobody made you guys get an iPhone. Tech hardware falls in price/gets updated so fast these days it's not even funny....on top of that, how much did you lose? $200? If you're out spending $600 in the first place on a PHONE it sounds like you don't have a huge concern for how much money you throw at a company anyway.

AMEN!

Jeez; what a bunch of cry babies.

I was a **a very early** DVD adopter. I bought my Panasonic DVD player for $799.00 way back when DVD's were only sold on certain 'test market' cities. I wasn't upset when they lowered the prices on the hardware. It just happens. Heck, they practically give away DVD players nowadays.

There are more important things in life...

 

[technocoy]

I don't think...

Anyone who is an Apple fan/early adopter didn't expect a price drop like anyone else, and I don't think anyone would have been surprised 6 months from launch when the price dropped a hundred bucks.

But all the morons being all dramatic and talking about how we all should have known are idiots. Not one person expected a friggin 30 some percent drop 2 months in. period. That's unusual and extreme and can't one of you say it isn't.

Not much that can be done of course, but a $50 gift card for the store would be pretty nice and go a long way towards smoothing things over with the fanboys.

The bad business move here is that most of the early adopters are the most rabid apple pushers. Screwing your installed base is a bad move on any level.

At any rate I love my iPhone just the same, and now I can afford one for my wife. Ha.

 

[VoodooDaddy]

They are selling the remaining stock at $299 though brand new. Right Here

ah, Im an idiot. I ONLY checked the refurbs for the 4gb, never thought to check the new ones. Ended up getting an 8gb refurb.

 

[nagromme]

I wonder, is this an attempt to make it more affordable to be the "every one's phone" or is news of the sale rate that analysts have been making is off and sales are flattening out?

Sales have been great, but apparently Apple wants to sell even MORE iPhones and take more of the market. We don't have to rely on analyst's estimates: IIRC Apple had said they hoped to sell a million iPhones by end of September. Now, they have sold nearly that many by the BEGINNING of September!

Apple was going to sell a TON at $599. They will sell a ton more, however, at $399, and it makes the competition look like a joke. The iPhone was already cheaper (when you take into account the low monthly plan) than other smartphones. MUCH cheaper. Now it's another $200 less than that! And none of them can touch (ha ha) the iPhone's ease of use and features.

Imagine what all these new products will do to flash RAM demand!

 

[gwgmac]

Stop complaining, start acting

I, too, am urked. A huge apple fan for many years, I have spent thousands on their products. How can we make our voices heard and get the CREDIT we deserve? Apple just screwed their biggest fans.

 

[Much Ado]

This thread is pointless.

Half the people are complaining.

Half the people are telling them not to complain.

No dialogue, no discussion. Just endless, endless posting.

 

[mongoos150]

Pity I didn't get the $399 pricing on my 8GB, but it's been nice having it since day 1. Honestly, this will bring iPhone into even more user's hands. Not sure if that's a good thing... but hopefully will influence Apple to release more firmware updates (if there are more users to complain about missing features).

Shame there wasn't a 16GB iPhone released - I'm still scratching my head on that one. If they can release a 16GB Touch, there's no reason to not release a 16GB iPhone.

 

[QuarterSwede]

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this happens all the time. The price you pay to have it right away! I could not wait three months either. Oh well.

Pretty much what I'm thinking. I wonder if my brother-in-law feels stiffed? Wow, I'm really trying not to laugh.

 

[tonkaxxtuph]

stop crying!

You people who complain about the price drop make me sick! Stop crying already.

 

[Luxord]

What is the Store Managers name? When did you buy it?

I got two iPhones one on June 30th and one on Auguest 20th. To be honest I did not catch the manager's name but requested him directly when I talked to the first human I got after calling the Apple store direct. Again if you don't believe me call your local Apple store, only think you would be doing is wasting the ten minutes to get an answer.

 

[MindlessJD]

Don't worry!

I feel sorry for all the people who bought iPhones early on but prices falling are jut a fact of life - don't cars depreciate as soon as you drive out of the showroom? I bought a 20" white iMac about 4 months before the release of the new ones and they are a lot cheaper and obviously I wished I had waited but it doesn't bother me now. It seems to me as though Apple hadn't expected such a high amount of sales of the 8GB model at its price and now it has sold (extremely) well, they have lowered the price to shift even more - sounds like a smart business decision to me.

 

[3282872]

Everyone had the option of jumping on the bandwagon early (as I did) or waiting for the dust to settle and the market to determine what features and at what price the iPhone would be commercially successful. This type of early adjustment to marketing strategy is not unique to the iPhone; it happens to most new cutting edge products since the manufacturer does not really know what the market will bear when they first develop marketing plans for their new products.

No doubt that we early adopters paid $200 more then folks will pay from this day forward; the thing to remember is that we had use of our iPhones for that two month period that new purchasers did not. If that early use of the phone (or any new product) is not worth the price then you should not be an early adopter in the future since you will most likely always get "burned" in your opinion.

I do not feel that I was burned, I thought all along that there would be a lower price on the iPhone quite soon after I purchased one, and, I am actually surprised that the new units do not offer more features then the original in fact. Apple will not gain the market share they hoped to achieve unless they adjust their marketing strategy to meet the demands of their potential customers.

We all gain if Apple's new price point brings in another million new iPhone users that just happen to become new Mac (and Apple TV, Airport Extreme Router, etc.) purchasers as well (as many have). Apple won't will continue to develop the great new products that we all enjoy unless they have the sales and profits to do so.

Dave

Sure, if the iPhone wasn't such a new product and the price drop was over 30%. I'm not raging mad, but a huge price drop so soon after a new product release is a bit of a slap in the face to the buyers that made the iPhone a successful product...

 

[locomien]

I 2nd this club. It's even worse for me, I got my 8gb just 3 weeks ago. Can't return now, its been in for repairs once (they didn't do anything) so it's still flawed and I'm out $200. Very ****ty

 

[Play4keeps]

We most RAISE HELL in the form off a gift cards or $back REALLY this is in no way NORMAL😡

 

[benfilan]

It's available worldwide. It uses WiFi only, so it's truly international.

great!!! the descision now is ipod touch or wait for an iPhone? mmm...😕😕😕

 

[alexandr]

i have mixed feelings about this. i bought my 8g on the 30th of april. so i'm not upset like someone who bought it 15 days ago.. on the other hand a 33% price drop after just over two months is outrageous. i feel somewhat betrayed by a company who's products i've been using for years. but this isn't going to make me stop. i love my iphone and i have been enjoying it ever since i got it.. buying it as soon as it came out put me further away from the model update. so everything is relative. 200 bucks is 200 bucks. now my question is:

in the case of the apature update, was the $200 store credit announced immediately, or did it come a couple of days later. in other words does the fact that apple didn't mention it today mean that we are likely not going to get it?

 

[boffers]

I know it is always a risk to buy a product which is out for some time, but I did not expect Apple to drop the price this fast. I bought my 4gb iPhone Thursday last week in an AT&T store: does anyone think I can go back to the store and try asking them for a refund or the 8gb phone?

Please let me know!

 

[kimb]

ughhhhhhh what does one say about the price drop. i am in aggreance everyone who owns an iphone now should protest to apple that we should get a refund of our money! Whos with me!??! 😀😡😡

 

[carltabet]

I now have increasing hopes for the 16-32 GB iPhone I've been waiting for!

You took the words out of my mouth, I think this price drop is also meant to make room for a bigger size iPhone, if not by Christmas, perhaps at Macworld '08. I'm still waiting for the European release though, it feels like an eternity waiting...

 

[benbondu]

Old price:
iPhone: $600, two years of service: $1560, total: $2160

New price:
iPhone: $400, two years of service: $1560, total: $1960

Price difference: $200, or 10%. Why freak out over a 10% price drop?

That's a good point; however, $40 per month is just for phone service, which I'm guessing most iPhone buyers would have been paying anyway (assuming they owned a cell phone previously). If you only include the $20/month data plan as extra, then the price drop increases to about 19%.

Really though, what did people expect Apple to do here?
1) Keep the iPhone price at $600 with the iPod touch at $300? $300 more to combine your iPod and cell phone into one device? I personally wouldn't be able to justify that. I don't know about anyone else. Although you do get a slow connection to AT&T's network, I guess. (for $20/month)
2) Introduce the iPod touch at a higher price? That just hurts the people who want to buy the iPod.
3) Hold off on introducing the iPod touch for a few more months? Again, that just hurts everyone else.


The really bad news would have been if you could now (officially) use the iPhone on a carrier other than AT&T. That would have really sucked for the people who left their favorite provider and signed up with AT&T just to get an iPhone.

 

[Snowy_River]

Did you actually read the report? Because I did. Their methodology for coming up with those numbers are at best faulty if you want to be charitable. They called up RANDOM people and asked them what they bought in the past couple of months. They then extrapolated that small sample size into statistical data. Meaning, at best they're just playing around with voodoo magic to come up with random numbers to bait for headlines and links. .

Uh, do you even know how one gets statistical data? As a general rule, you take a RANDOM SAMPLE of the group that you are concerned with, and then EXTRAPOLATE into meaningful data. This is basic statistics! The accuracy of your reported numbers is based on the size of your sample. Ever wonder where the news agencies get that +/- 2% number from when they're reporting the percentage of that people are in favor of topic XYZ? Do you think that they called everyone to determine those percentages? How often have they called you?

Calling random people is in no way a faulty methodology. Don't talk about what you don't understand.

 

[Tazzy531]

this is interesting... do you know anything about washington mutual cc policies????

Usually, it depends on whether it's a Visa or Mastercard or Amex. Call up WaMu and ask them about your benefits.

 

[Compile 'em all]

I can't understand why everyone is BAWWWWing about a price drop. If an iPhone was worth $600 to you 2 months ago, then it was worth $600 and you got your money's worth. If you were too impatient to wait for the inevitable price drop, then you have noone to blame but yourself.

How many times are we going to repeat this!! 2 months is a very short time frame for a price drop. Period.