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8GB iPhone Price Drop, 4GB iPhone Discontinued

wow, this is utter ********. not only is it 200 cheaper, that means ******* APPLE was making at LEAST 200 per phone.

there is going to be the biggest turmoil. 200 to the average american... thats a big deal.
 
ROFLcopter, that's what you get for being an early adopter.

Thanks guys!
 
im sure people who bought the 4gb version in the last 14 days will be able to get an 8gb for free plus a refund.
 
Damn $399 for an 8 gig Iphone now?
That was quick.
Even though it sucks what can you do. I know they'll sell alot more Iphones now since the price is alot better than when they came out.
 
hahaha, suckers! Serves you right for buying Gen1 Apple products. You knew there would be cheaper/better ones soon enough. That's the price you pay for early adopting. If you bought within the last week and you visit these forums, then you're an even bigger idiot because you knew this was coming. We all know not to buy before a big launch event, so stop complaining if you just couldn't keep it in your pants(your $$ that is) until then.
 
i can't believe prices dropped so sharply on the iphone. i doubted it, but it's true. i'd be surprised now if they didn't reach that 10M figure.
 
8GB iPhone Price Drop, 4GB iPhone Discontinued



An additional announcement from the "Beat Goes On" media event today - the iPhone will receive a price drop, moving the 8GB model down to $399 from $599 starting immediately. The 4GB iPhone model is being dropped, due to intense consumer concentration on the 8GB model.

With the current pricing, the 8GB iPhone is now only $100 more than the new iPod touch model at the same storage capacity.

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Alas, I bought my iPhone on August 1st, so I am outside the return policy window to try and get a price reduction, but hey, that's the price of being an early adopter.

On the other hand, by releasing a 16GB iPod Touch that does everything my iPhone does but make cellular network calls for $399, paying $200 more for the cellphone and half the memory was a major stretch, so I think Apple had no real choice but to knock down the price to $399 and kill the 4G model.
 
I wonder if you get a refurb 8 gig now is it still $100 cheaper. So $299 for a refurb 8gig iphone?
 
This was a rather dumb move on Apple's part. Who is going to buy another expensive first-generation Apple product? Just wait a few months and they'll knock 33% off the price.
 
So since I got my iPhone on August 15th, I guess I can't return it anymore.

I'm going to be calling Apple in a bit and seeing what they will do for me. That is total BS, I know they can do what they want to the pricing but come on, who ever heard of a $200 price drop on something that has been out for two months??

I'm very pissed off right now...
 
And now Apple pissed off its 1M user base.....


but most of us, being the die hard Apple fan will live with it! And buy more Apple stuff.



Well I'm off to replace my iPhone...going onto the 4th one...this was worth the 200 extra I paid for sure :rolleyes:
 
I'm ticked. I spent $200 more for the same product in June, now it is $399! My friend just bought an iPhone 8 GB for the full price, they should give those customers some sort of reimbursement or iTunes credit. :mad:
 
Relax everybody!

New technology always fluctuates on price, and if you didn't EXPECT this, then you were diluting yourself. The price dropping entitles none of you to a discount - you purchased it at the advertised price, and if I recall, were all more than willing to do so. Now it's cheaper: so what.

DON'T BUY NEW PRODUCTS if you hate it so much.

Buncha whiners...

(in fact, it sounds like most people happily paid the $600)
 
Total bummer....For the price I paid for 2 of these, I could now get 3...and it's been roughty 65 days....I have about 300 dollars left on my credit card paying them off, I would have been +$100 if I woulda waited.

I'm fine with price drops, it happens...but how often does something happen this soon. I was expecting maybe a $100 dollar drop, not $200.....so lame.

"the customer satisfaction numbers on the iPhone are off the charts"

Yeah...but now that you ripped all of us off, I'm sure our moods have changed a bit.
 
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