No, I didn’t purchase an iPhone in the pre-yesterday era of the high-priced device. If I had, I’d certainly realize that Apple’s $200 price-cut — however unfortunate for early iPhone adopters — is, as Steve Jobs says, “life in the technology fast lane”. You cannot begin to tell me each person who bought one of these phones at the former $599 price point wasn’t expecting an eventual newer version or lower price. It doesn’t matter if it was 10 hours, 10 weeks or 10 months after the initial launch — a newer, cheaper version was imminent. It’s clinically systematic and can almost be clocked with an egg-timer; newer products with lower prices have been christening the technology market since the fricken’ cotton gin was invented in 1793.
I’ve heard nothing but whining from some early iPhone purchasers since yesterday’s announcement. John Gruber, of DaringFireball and an early iPhone adopter himself, said yesterday:
[Apple] set the debut price ridiculously high because demand was ridiculously high. I suspect that for the first few weeks, they were selling iPhones as fast as they could make them.
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And for those of you who’ve already bought one and are pissed about the price cut, if you didn’t think the iPhone was worth $599, you shouldn’t have bought it. That’s how supply and demand works.
It seems folks who bought an iPhone back in July have whined loud enough. Apple is giving them each a $100 store credit.
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