I understand boosting holiday sales but dropping the price 33% 70 days after product launch. That's nuts, think of the number of loyalists they've just pissed off.
They should've at least waited until Nov for the holiday season to start and then maybe a $100 off.
My .02 cents.
Dropping the price was a GREAT idea! I bet the "refurbished' iPhones were really a test run to see how the lower prices attracted customers.
Obviously some who paid the original price will be upset, but dropping the price brings more customers so it can only help Apple. Good move.
For those of you that just purchased the iPhone @ $599:
1) It is worth $599 to you.
You thought out your purchase, decided that it was a good buy for the value, and paid what you determined to be a fair price. Sure you would have paid less if you could have, but you can still expect to get from the device what you paid for it.
2) It is not worth $599 to you.
You purchased the iPhone for the hell of it. You spent more money than you wanted too. In the future you should spend more time thinking about a product and its value to you before you spend you money so that you don't experience buyer's remorse and bitch and complain online like a little kid that dropped his ice cream cone.
And don't come back and whine, "but $599 is a LOT of money." If it is a lot of money to you, maybe you should have used that money to pay rent or buy food or gas rather than waste it on a planned-obsolescence piece of technology.
Who cares if it helps Apple? It doesn't help those of us approximately 750,000 people who just contributed at least $150,000,000 to Apple's bottom line. I will give a lot of thought before I become an early adopter of Apple products again.Dropping the price was a GREAT idea! I bet the "refurbished' iPhones were really a test run to see how the lower prices attracted customers.
Obviously some who paid the original price will be upset, but dropping the price brings more customers so it can only help Apple. Good move.
8GB iphones are now $399. Are you mad you didn't wait, or was it worth it to you to be first on the block?
I will give a lot of thought before I become an early adopter of Apple products again.
It's NOT $100 a month
iPhone past-$599
AT&T Contract-$1438
iPhone cost- $2037
New costs :
iPhone -$399
AT&T Contract-$1438
new iPhone cost- $1837
Difference over 2 years : $200
$200 / 2 Years = $8.33 a month
TOTAL Price Difference is - $8.33 X 2 months = $16.66
Get over it people..
If one were expensing the phone over the life of the plan, you have a point. If I were a business, I'd buy your logic.
As most of these phones are for personal use, however, cash flow matters. It's $200 out of hand less than yesterday.