Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for more than nine years at the Austin American-Statesman and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity, MSNBC.com's books section and The Almost Late Show with Bobby Bones. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.
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By Omar Gallaga
| Thursday, September 6, 2007, 02:54 PM
If you stood in line for a $600 iPhone and felt burned by yesterday’s $200 price drop, Uncle Steve Jobs has some good news for you. He’s listened to all the complaints and he’s giving early adopters a $100 gift certificate for use on Apple products.
As an iPhone owner friend of mine said, “That’s 1/2 neat!”
Details should be posted on Apple’s site next week. If you do get that $100 back, why not put it toward… a new touch-screen iPod! You can carry it in one hand, carry your iPhone in the other and walk down the street as the undisputed most insufferable geek who ever lived.
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By Jacob
September 7, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this
Ha Ha,
I think the whole thing is funny. That's what you get for spending $600 dollars on a phone.
Apple might be in trouble next time they have their next great innovation. People may wait for the 2nd and 3rd generation products like smart people and actually get something cheaper and better that is worth the costs of apple's shiny objects.
Don't be mad apple fan boys. You spent the extra $200 bucks to have the coolest tech on the block.
P.S. Full Disclosure
Yes, I work on a Mac, own an iPod, and run windows media center. I use the technology the gets the job done.
By Brocktoon
September 6, 2007 4:44 PM | Link to this
And thus we have the first instance of anyone complaining that Apple's products are priced TOO LOW.
Your friend is 1/2 whiny, Omar. She or he got exactly what they paid for, when they paid for it. The Razor started at $700; eventually people could actually MAKE money for buying one. But I dont' remember any of them demanding rebates.
Did I lust after the iPhone? Yep. Did I buy one? Nope. Couldn't afford it. But if I could have, I wouldn't now be complaining about a strategery that is going to exponentially increase the number of iPhone users and assure robust development on the platform.
Omar replies: I think this has a lot less to do with making warm fuzzies for customers in time for the holidays (it's a bit early for that) than Apple feeling Google's rumored $100 phone breathing down their neck and sales of the $600 iPhone dropping off sharply after the early adopter rush.
I'm thrilled the iPhone is $200 cheaper. I may buy one myself now. But it doesn't inspire confidence among shareholders (or early adopters) when you cut the price of your flagship product by 1/3rd 10 weeks after its massive worldwide introduction. Something's up.