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8GB iPhone Price Drop, 4GB iPhone Discontinued
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Not necessarily. Doesn't have ATT a "try us and our coverage for 14 days without penalty" policy? Or was that Verizon
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These are the words of a wise man. Listen to this man. These are the truest words anyone has said in these forums in a looong time
In your case I would return the phone you had no lucky.
But sorry people, I have no pity for people that bought iPhone when launched...
Everyone knows that when a product goes to sell will pay a premium price... so who bought have to know this things... that's the price to be the coolest kid from the neighborhood for two months.
Now is time to everyone be cool
Welcome to the world of phone prices.
Remember how expensive the Motorola RAZR first was?
Now you get it free with any contract.
Remember how expensive the Motorola RAZR first was?
Now you get it free with any contract.
I am upset but there's no sense in crying about it in the forums it just makes you look more like an idiot. As someone said earlier no one held a gun to your head...
It will cost a whole lot more to give 1 Million customers a $200 Gift Card... Aperture was only in a few hundred thousand hands.
This is a watershed day in the history of Apple loyalists (me included). Apple may have pissed off its core base big time. I don't think there has ever been a media event and product introduction that has caused such an uproar. I think Apple may have crossed over to the dark side and gone mainstream. Steve just cashed in all of his loyalty chips and will never have the same effect on his base.
Amen. A lot of "newbie's" have logged onto Macrumor's to flame those who have legitimate complaints about Apple's decision to drop the price of the iPhone within two months of it's release by such a huge dollar amount. I don't understand the reasoning, if you don't agree with someone's view point, either not say anything at all or express your view points like the adults we are (or should be).
I think people are complaining in places other than forums...as I type this...my $600 iPhone is telling me that AAPL is DOWN 6.75 points.
I wonder if this is the kind of reaction that Stevie was looking for after his big "event"??
I was all set to spend some of money on an updated iPod. After this I'm done with Apple. the iPhone will be the last $'s I give to Apple. A 33% price drop after 2 months is completely unacceptable for any product.
Definitely. I'm surprised Apple didn't announce a 16Gig iPhone at the $599 price point.
No. And as someone who bought one of the first RAZR's with Verizon, it wasn't more than $99 with contract, and years later is roughly $49 to $100 depending on the carrier and RAZR model.
Not a true comparison with dropping the price of a huge new product release Apple deems "revolutionary" within only two months of its release.
Apple's forum is full of threads complaining about the price drop. It may not do any good, and as we all know the only winners are the lawyers, but I fully expect class action lawsuits over this unless Apple does something pretty fast. Not saying it is justified or not, but that I think it will happen.
Right, but did they stop selling the telly for that half a year before the $2000 price drop? Thought so. There was prolly some poor shmuck who bought the thing like a fortnight before the price drop. So your argument has more holes than a colander, unfortunately
Who said anything about halting sales on the iPhone? I think all Placeofdis was saying was wait another four months before lowering the price. Which makes total sense as far as I'm concerned. The point was the extremely short time from release to price drop. Had it come six months (instead of two) after release people would have been more prepared instead of this "out of the blue" drop. Try reading more carefully before putting down perfectly good ideas.
Steve Ballmer has gone from his nervous little laugh and boisterous claim as the CEO scoffed: "$500! Fully subsidized! With a plan. That's the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email."
To a nervous little cry, sobbing...
At least that's what I hear Steve Ballmer of Microsoft is saying in his office right now!:lol:
To a nervous little cry, sobbing...
At least that's what I hear Steve Ballmer of Microsoft is saying in his office right now!:lol:
So it is back down to the price it was about 3 days ago and up about 5% from 4 days ago.
I bought my iPhone on August 15th, so about 20 days ago. Called up AT&T, they said that I'm probably s-o-l.
$200 price drop
I don't see any reason to bellyache about being an early adopter. Be honest: how many times did your iPhone get you laid? Now how much would that cost you on the open market? If your iPhone didn't get you laid, why the hell weren't you workin' that!? Such a precious, narrow window of opportunity to be one of the few players with a sexy, high-tech version of Mystery's photo routine, and y'all just squandered it. Pathetic wankers.
j/k
I don't see any reason to bellyache about being an early adopter. Be honest: how many times did your iPhone get you laid? Now how much would that cost you on the open market? If your iPhone didn't get you laid, why the hell weren't you workin' that!? Such a precious, narrow window of opportunity to be one of the few players with a sexy, high-tech version of Mystery's photo routine, and y'all just squandered it. Pathetic wankers.
j/k