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8GB iPhone Price Drop, 4GB iPhone Discontinued
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No need to panic -- in you bought in the past 14 days
Apple Store on 5th Avenue in NYC says that an adjustment will be made if you bring the receipt. My wife got me an iPhone as a present on Friday, and so we'll be getting $200 back. That's all the company can realistically do.
Apple Store on 5th Avenue in NYC says that an adjustment will be made if you bring the receipt. My wife got me an iPhone as a present on Friday, and so we'll be getting $200 back. That's all the company can realistically do.
faustfire
macrumors 6502a
bought an iphone the day it came out for $599... I had to sacrifice and save as much as I could on my small salary to afford such a luxury item. I managed to save $100 a month for 6 months. So far I love the device but then....
today you dropped the price of my luxury item to $399...essentially making it a mass market item and robbing me of $200 and the luxury of owning one in the process.
To most $200 isn't much but to me its two of my monthly bills. its food for 2 months. its 1/4 of my monthly mortgage. Its a month of going out on the weekends. To some $200 isn't much but to me its everything. Living paycheck to paycheck on a graphic designers salary.
I will continue to buy apple products because I love them but next time I will be much less likely to be an early adopter.
Signed,
Michael *******
Still loving apple though feeling slightly robbed
Oh no, now you might be like everyone else using a mass market item, the perception of luxury you needed to have about your phone is gone. 🙄
You should have bought it because you wanted it, not to make some kind of elitist statement to the people around you.
today you dropped the price of my luxury item to $399...essentially making it a mass market item and robbing me of $200 and the luxury of owning one in the process.
To most $200 isn't much but to me its two of my monthly bills. its food for 2 months. its 1/4 of my monthly mortgage. Its a month of going out on the weekends. To some $200 isn't much but to me its everything. Living paycheck to paycheck on a graphic designers salary.
I will continue to buy apple products because I love them but next time I will be much less likely to be an early adopter.
Signed,
Michael *******
Still loving apple though feeling slightly robbed
Oh no, now you might be like everyone else using a mass market item, the perception of luxury you needed to have about your phone is gone. 🙄
You should have bought it because you wanted it, not to make some kind of elitist statement to the people around you.
To all the people who did purchase the iphone at the previous higher prices, I'd like to offer some words of comfort, and hopefully bring some perspective as well.
Think of it this way- during the last two months, you were probably the first and maybe only person on your block to have these gadgets. From what I've heard, a lot of people were even purposely low key when talking or using one, because people would inevitably come up and want to see it and touch it the moment they saw it. It was like celebrity status for a while. Think of how you felt, having it and knowing that so many people wanted one. This was probably THE most hyped and desired gadget in history, which makes this a special case, something to tell your grandchildren that you had one of the very first iphones.
I would have gladly paid the $600 if I had had the money the last two months, but I was saving up for one. So looking back at the last two months, and how special this whole thing was, with the media circus surrounding it, and the whole experience of getting one of the first iphones and learning about it with the other new adopters, wasn't that worth a couple hundred bucks? This may not happen again for a long time- it might be decades before another breakthrough device like this emerges. All I'm asking is, just consider all that carefully to yourself, before you do something hasty, like stomping into the Apple store in a rage.
Think of it this way- during the last two months, you were probably the first and maybe only person on your block to have these gadgets. From what I've heard, a lot of people were even purposely low key when talking or using one, because people would inevitably come up and want to see it and touch it the moment they saw it. It was like celebrity status for a while. Think of how you felt, having it and knowing that so many people wanted one. This was probably THE most hyped and desired gadget in history, which makes this a special case, something to tell your grandchildren that you had one of the very first iphones.
I would have gladly paid the $600 if I had had the money the last two months, but I was saving up for one. So looking back at the last two months, and how special this whole thing was, with the media circus surrounding it, and the whole experience of getting one of the first iphones and learning about it with the other new adopters, wasn't that worth a couple hundred bucks? This may not happen again for a long time- it might be decades before another breakthrough device like this emerges. All I'm asking is, just consider all that carefully to yourself, before you do something hasty, like stomping into the Apple store in a rage.
Then they've still retained you as a customer, why should they care about compensating you for this price drop, it's not as if you're going to stop giving them money.
Business Savvy?
Cool, so when the price of Apple software goes up due to theft I can come round your place and steal you TV right?
Moohaha! I can copy and paste too 😀
slffl
macrumors 65816
There are two people in this thread. Ones WITH and ones WITHOUT iPhones. And let me tell you, I'm $&%^$ one of the pissed iPhone owners. If I would have known (which Apple obviously knew) about this price drop, I would have saved my $400 (two phones) until now.
This is a bad move and I'm with everyone else when I say I will get my money back one way or another.
This is a bad move and I'm with everyone else when I say I will get my money back one way or another.
What's the big deal?
Cars, clothes, food, houses, and pretty much everything else goes on sale. It's part of the deal when you pay retail that at some point in the near future the same item will be cheaper. There is a certain part of the population that pays retail so they can be the first to own one. I just bought my wife a brand new 2008 VW Eos convertible at very near sticker knowing full well that I could have bought it cheaper later.
AT&T and Apple told you the price and you willingly bought it. End of story.
Cars, clothes, food, houses, and pretty much everything else goes on sale. It's part of the deal when you pay retail that at some point in the near future the same item will be cheaper. There is a certain part of the population that pays retail so they can be the first to own one. I just bought my wife a brand new 2008 VW Eos convertible at very near sticker knowing full well that I could have bought it cheaper later.
AT&T and Apple told you the price and you willingly bought it. End of story.
I have never seen such a negative backlash to an Apple announcement as this has been in the 4+ years that I've been visiting this site and others like it. I will honestly be quite surprised if Apple doesn't come up with something within the next few days. They're taking a real PR hit for this whether some here agree with it or not.
Interesting thought. If a Porche sold for $20K instead of $70K (or whatever), I wonder if it would make it less of a car to most of the population? The elite status of a Porche is partially due to quality/performance/styling/etc, and partially due to an elite price. I doubt anybody knows what the percentage is.
The $399 price is good but what is more impressive is how cheap you can get an official 4GB refurb right now. Just 2 months after inception, you can own a good as new iPhone for what- 250-300 probably? Just about nobody is priced out of an iPhone at prices like that. Maybe that brings the iPhone back down with the MacBooks and iMacs... these devices don't really command a premium (or much of one, anyway) over their Dell counterparts. Now, neither does the iPhone. Boy, that happened quick!
Take your money back!
I bought mine @ 600.00. Very happy with it, but feel like I got screwed today. 100$ sure... $200 NO.
I remember the lines of employees thanking and applauding as I left the store with iPhone in hand. They should have been laughing... Steve probably was. Never again.
It's time to make our money back folks. Short AAPL to the 120s. PROFIT on this arrogance. I hope STEVE likes his company stock and HOLDS onto it as I rip money from his hands.
1) Delay Leopard for iPhone... piss on Mac folks. iPhone is more important.
2) Rebate iPhone $200 to punish the folks that support it on day one.
3) My son finds he can BYPASS "Simple Finder" by typing "file://" in the address bar in Safari. Son has COMPLETE access to the ENTIRE DRIVE and INTERNET. Nice security Apple. Nice "Parental Controls". I report this to APPLE... "Thanks for your bug report". So, disconnect internet from insecure OS.
Apple seems to be grasping at straws. Their too small. It's like a 200 person restaurant with 1 cook.
I'm DONE with Apple products.
I bought mine @ 600.00. Very happy with it, but feel like I got screwed today. 100$ sure... $200 NO.
I remember the lines of employees thanking and applauding as I left the store with iPhone in hand. They should have been laughing... Steve probably was. Never again.
It's time to make our money back folks. Short AAPL to the 120s. PROFIT on this arrogance. I hope STEVE likes his company stock and HOLDS onto it as I rip money from his hands.
1) Delay Leopard for iPhone... piss on Mac folks. iPhone is more important.
2) Rebate iPhone $200 to punish the folks that support it on day one.
3) My son finds he can BYPASS "Simple Finder" by typing "file://" in the address bar in Safari. Son has COMPLETE access to the ENTIRE DRIVE and INTERNET. Nice security Apple. Nice "Parental Controls". I report this to APPLE... "Thanks for your bug report". So, disconnect internet from insecure OS.
Apple seems to be grasping at straws. Their too small. It's like a 200 person restaurant with 1 cook.
I'm DONE with Apple products.
Thats one hell of a price drop, either Apple wants a piece of the mainstream phone market like the razr or they are planning on replacing it with a 3G model this fall. You dont make a $200 price drop and phase out a product after just a couple of months for ***** and giggles, there has to be a big reason.
cantthinkofone
macrumors 65816
I love all the cry babies on here 😛
thats what you get for running out and getting the hottest new toy the day it comes out instead of waiting a few weeks or months.
thats what you get for running out and getting the hottest new toy the day it comes out instead of waiting a few weeks or months.
Good point. Regardless of those who think the complaints are invalid, you can't disagree with the fact that there is a PR hit here. That won't go away regardless of what you think about it and you won't change the minds of those complaining.
Also remember all the hype leading up to this phone. It was unreal. So of course the feelings run deep for some. Right or wrong, those are the facts, and this thread speaks for itself.
Compile 'em all
macrumors 601
I bought the iPhone 6 days ago. That is only 2 months after its release. And today, only 6 days after the purchase it is 30% cheaper.
They've made one of the most hyped technology products of the past year more affordable, and the marketplace is far far from saturated with iPhone owners -- a PR hit (homerun) indeed.
Well, I'm not expecting anything, but I'm just saying it'd be nice. I'm not one to threaten never buying again, especially when I'm well aware that I'll likely still buy Apple products in the future.
They have an opportunity to make a considerate gesture here - and that gesture is theirs to make, with or without threats of losing loyal customers. My original comment was more meant along the lines of building upon relationships, as opposed to avoid losing them.
slffl
macrumors 65816
Yeah because everything else Apple sells drop 40% in a few months right? Idiot.
What if you went and bought a 15" Powerbook somewhere, new, and it was 40% the next day? I take it you would be jumping for joy?
Even if Apple offers something to those of us early adopters (I myself stood in line for hours on that June day...), they probably won't do anything for those who bought them from the AT&T stores (myself included)... its like the whole iPod + HP crap all over again.
A refund? Yes, lets all dream... lets talk reality -- those who purchased within the first 2 months -- give us free applecare on the phone. We are betatesters after all, so help us out with some "potentially free" perks of applecare coverage ;-)...
- Eric
A refund? Yes, lets all dream... lets talk reality -- those who purchased within the first 2 months -- give us free applecare on the phone. We are betatesters after all, so help us out with some "potentially free" perks of applecare coverage ;-)...
- Eric