Apple has lowered prices quickly on new technology before, without any
refunds--it happens a lot with new technology from other companies too.
I bought a computer a decade ago a week before a newer, faster model was
released for the same price--bummer--no refunds or apologies, even
though the model I bought had only been out for 3 months.
However, a 1/3 reduction in price in two months is unusual, and lots of
customers were pretty upset that it happened so fast. Many of the
customers are new to technology, and not used to the risk of buying the
1.0 release of anything. The phone will cost a lot for the life of the
contract, too.
It could be worse. You could be a Verizon customer, lusting after the
iPhone, but settling for the iPod Touch at the same price.
This is the strangest thing I can recall any company ever doing. Even for
Apple this is mighty strange. Why should they do this? If somebody was
happy to buy the iPhone at $600 and did so that should be the end of it.
>I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about
>Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale.
>After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and
>conclusions.
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