JP
As you guessed there was of course some smart ass who asked the question about whether they were going to cut the price of the UK iPhone by a third too. Sadly it wasn’t me, I couldn’t be there, they must have read my mind though.
The question was met with some laughs, but it got answered. Steve more or less said that there aren’t any plans right now to do that, but its technology and it could happen.
Personally I would much rather Apple share whatever discounts and price drops they get from their manufacturers with their customers than hold back on doing so just because it might piss some people off. Just keep doing what you are doing Apple, don’t listen to all the haters.
4 Responses to “Pricing and the Future of the iPhone”
AJ September 18, 2007
Geez, iphone news is everywhere like crazy. Seriously I’m getting tired of the iphone…price drop this, new this, market that, will their attempts to regain iphone popularity succeed? we will find out in the end.
NeutralMark September 20, 2007
Had a chance to try one out, the iPhone is a really cool iPod — except that it has WAY too little storage for a video player (what a surprise, Apple left a reason to get people to upgrade again next year!) … but as a *phone* it … sucks. IMO. the Blackberry Pearl 2 coming out in a couple months looks like it hit MUCH closer to the mark than the iPhone did.
NeutralJames Allan Brady September 20, 2007
with the initial price of the iPhone being $600 and having up to 8GB of flash storage, plus all the other media oriented features, and the full HTML web browser, and all the other features that make the iPhone so great, you never were paying that kind of price for a phone, you were paying for everything else that it did, and it just so happened to be able to make and receive calls
i havent played with many blackberrys, but the last one i played with did not have an HTML browser, it had a WAP browser or something of that nature, the iPhone has a full browser, on a larger screen
in my opinion, there are only two things the blackberry has over the iPhone, and one of them is a preference, the first the the BlackBerry PUSH email, the second, is the preference one, and its the QWERTY keypad thats not a touch screen
+1Ty September 23, 2007
Very true! I would probably be mad but I would appreciate their response on the matter.
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