This uproar is very telling.

If you spent up to two days of your life waiting in line for it, and are now angry because you could have saved $200, had you waited... that speaks volumes about how you value your time. It also says a lot about your logical thinking ability.

I'd keep my mouth shut.

How much does it cost to manufacture the Iphone? $399 is probably still a lot of profit I would imagine.

Success in business basically involves two things. Innovation and marketing. Apple and Google are good at both.




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As long as there are Bush followers there will be Apple flunkies.

Apple is all hype. People are so easily suckered in by TV ads and tech magazines.

Jobs has done a job on ignorant consumers. Go forth and make Jobs richer with your blind following. Jobs is the false Messiah of tech.

I still don't want one.

At least now I can feel vindicated. When Ariana posted the feature article about how you can be one of the first to buy this iPhone, I asked, "And the point of being first is ...?!" Alas, my comment was never posted. How d'ya like them apples!

So Google is going to try a phone?
I was reading a piece at Scholars and Rouges that points out in the Google Terms Of Service agreement that any content that you post and any info you send or receive with Google products is totally and wholly owned by Google. So if you get a GOOphone will they own all your calls and text messages as well?

Why the heck would jobs (a) apologize and (b) offer a credit? All early adopters always pay top dollar and prices drop tsonn after; it happens for any game system or other new tech. Those who were foolish enough to pay $600 for the privilige of being first to ownteh product need to stop whining.

I think Jobs did the right thing; $200, so soon after it's launch, is a substantial reduction in price. $100 rebate seems reasonable.

Apologize for what? Jobs set the price for iPhones and people were willing pay that price. Now that people are not willing to pay that price he drops it by $200. That is market driven capitalism 101.
People who bought at $599 did it for a status symbol. They neither deserve an apology nor a $100 rebate.

See nerds? Wasn't it worth it to stand outside in line for 3 days so you could be the first to pay $600 for a phone?
I wonder if Jobs is going to offer grief counseling?

To all of you loyal Apple customers who follow all the hype blindly, like sheep:

I think you have been taken, again.

Keep paying top dollar for those Apple products.

Go to pbs.org/cringely for the real scoop on this story.

(Here's a hint: Jobs rushed to write that letter about like the neocons rushed to write the Patriot Act.)

Instead of a discount, what about allowing the choice of your own service provider?

Yawn! People buying whizbang toys they don't need paying a lot more than they're worth and then crying because they got took.

There was this guy back in the late 1800's who said "there's a sucker born every minute" and "no one ever lost money on overestimating the intelligence of the American buyer." He also said, " people like to be humbugged." So, it looks like a bunch of people got humbugged but if they get humbugged for less money they may still be humbugged but it is okay with them. They're just toys!