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8GB iPhone Price Drop, 4GB iPhone Discontinued

lord patton said:
they offered a $200 Apple Store credit when they dropped the price of Aperture from $500 to $300.

I bet they do the same now. Although, it will cost them about 200 million dollars.
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really....I'm going to email Apple then!

Personal I think thats a good idea, if Apple done it before, why not again?

I'm off to Apple Offical Forums!
 
Jesus, guys. Prices change, do people go ******* when a car company drops the price of their car by several thousand when they've already had it for 3 months? If you were expecting the price to stay the same then you obviously don't understand business, especially in the mobile phone industry.

If you bought your phone in the past 2 weeks, chances are you'll get the difference back if you ask.
 
suxs to those to bought it early...
Now more importantly.. no news for you select europeans... I want a 3g iphone ASAP! :D Come on, you don't want to miss the christmas holiday
 
haha you idiots.. thats what happens when you buy a product first. guess what? newer **** comes out, prices come down.

you don't deserve 200. If you wanted it cheaper, you should have waited.

haha.
 
tribulation said:
Ok sorry I really do feel bad for everyone that paid that much. But this is almost too funny. Luckily I'm not one of them. Apple has never screwed over their early adopters like this before, very strange. I'd be pretty POd right now too.

Seriously though, they should have at least offered a $50 iTunes gift card to all current iphone owners or something to calm down the uproar. This is going to get them some bad press.

Still no 3rd party software support on any of this? Still a joke then I think.
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I understand the price drop, but the fact that it is less than 2 full months after the product is out is what pisses me off. $200 after 2 months is ridiculous. Hey, I'll take a coupon to the apple store, I am in the market for a new mac pro and would be more than glad to apply the savings. I am waiting to see what happens with you all calling and complaining before I do it also.
 
please don't forget this ****.

the next time apple makes a great new product and we are all wetting our pants about it, let's remember this moment. let's make sure we all don't run out and buy the piece great goodness for this is very well likely to happen again. this is bs and my confidence in apple has dropped. i never post on this forum, i lurk, but this has gotten me out of my hole just so i can rant. this stink will be smelled for miles on every news channel and every newpaper. what a load. i own 8 macs and a ton of other apple products and i have never felt this angry about that company.
 
Holyghost said:
For a product less than 2 months old, this amounts to a swift kick in the nuts. For me, 200$ is a significant amount of money.

I am speechless. Really poor on Apple's part. It will no doubt piss off the very loyal fan base who helped them sell 1 million phones - I hope they consider that.
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Maybe they will send them a bunch of coupons....:)
 
Totally incredible stuff, heavy duty price drop! Brilliant! feel sorry for the guys that just got one before this...
 
I think what most early adopters are mad about is the price drop so fast. When you look at gaming systems and other hot ticket items, price drops come way into the products life, not 60 days into it. I for one knew that eventually the phone would change, and possibly even lower in price. But this soon, I dont think anyone expected Apple to admit a mistake and drop the price so soon.

I was even watching the event unfold today as I was contemplating buying a second Apple product in terms of a new iPod to replace my Zune, but why should I go get a brand new one if the price is going to drop in two months.

I say give all current iPhone owners credit towards the purchase of other apple products.
 
Hahahaha. I knew it! And yet I still couldn't make myself wait to buy one. You win this round Jobs, you magnificent bastard.
 
I'm not as outraged as some people around the internet seem to be. It sucks to have paid $200 more, but then I have really enjoyed my iPhone for the last two months and (for me anyway), $200 is not that much money. I do hope that Apple does something nice like sending $50 or $100 iTunes gift cards to all early iPhone purchasers. They did something like this when the dropped the price on Aperture soon after launch, did they not?
 
~J~ said:
Im starting a club... you all are invited to join... its called the I'M ******* PISSED ABOUT MY IPHONE DEAL club... dont worry... memberships are free for life... as you already paid $200 to Apple to beta test something for them.

Our first order of business... im protesting until everyone gets a $200 gift card...
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I hope your serious because I am. We really need to let Apple know how pissed off we are. I've never seen a product lowered by $200 in just a few months.
 
erm

A little mad as I haven't even had the iPhone for a month and the price has gone down by $200. $200...$200 can't get over that. wouldn't have been as mad if it were only $100, but 2...$200. next time I better wait at least till a second revision so as not to over pay for something.

Erm... :confused:

Out...
 
SAN FRANCISCO—September 5, 2007—Apple® today announced that it is on track to sell its one millionth iPhone™ before the end of September, and to make iPhone affordable for even more customers this holiday season, it is lowering the price of the most popular iPhone model with 8GB of storage from $599 to just $399.
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Are they fobbing it off as a promotional offer for the "holiday season"?
 
Damn I'm pissed about this! Okay a 50 dollar price drop wouldn't bother me but a $200 one is a lot to let slide. Arghhh!
 
If Apple does not offer a $200 credit (even if its to iTunes store) to all who bought this thing initially, I would hope we would all agree never to buy another Apple product within its initial 6 months.

Changing prices is one thing. Doing so so quickly after launch is another.
 
I look at it this way compared to the new Touch and the $200 price drop. For $200 dollars I get crappy AT$T service with dropped calls everywhere and 1 bar of service and an Edge network which takes 5 minutes to download an email. Everytime I see their commercials I think class-action lawsuit for lying to us.

I have to take my MBP in this week because of heat issues and I'm gonna bitch about the $200 dollar price drop and see what they say...
 
absolute slap in the face for their loyal early adopters. I understand price drops but only 2 months after the release?? Sure was nice of us to pay an extra 200 to be their beta testers.

I am willing to sign up with whoever wants to start up the Class Action suit.
 
Here is my plan of attack.. I just bought a 4gb refurb 10 days ago for 399. Returning that immediately and buying either a 4gb refurb again (will surely be 299 or less IF they are still available) or turn around and buy an 8gb for the same price I paid for the 4gb.
 
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