Comments on: Steve Jobs gives us $100 back — regardless!

By: dani

dani — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:09:17 +0000

At least it’s something. What about the fools who paid $900 and upwards on Ebay and don’t get ANYTHING?

By: iLLmatic

iLLmatic — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:55:41 +0000

I wouldn’t call it a ‘weakness’ of RIM and Palm, they just cater to different markets. If the iPhone sells more, thats fine. BBs and PDAs/PPCs are for people who will make use of an office in their pocket. The iPhone is a trendy, pop-culture iconic device that for someone like me, is seriously lacking in features.

By: test5477

test5477 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:50:37 +0000

Um they were in the big leagues before everyone else. stuff happens as they say but they are aggressively taking advantage of RIM and Palm’s weakness.

and the $100 is a sign of good faith, they want people to buy more in the future.

By: Anh

Anh — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:23:17 +0000

Wow, the $100 rebate seems to have masked the fact from the fanboys :

iPhones werent selling as well as Apple expected, so they dropped their margins/price to sell more.

1. No company ruins a good thing if things are going rosy.
2. No company should ever give back money when they never promised it.

This drop was obviously unplanned, or else the 16GB iPhone would have been announced as the 4GB was dropped. One iPhone tier looks odd doesnt it?

Welcome to the big leagues of consumer eletronics.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:21:40 +0000

Pretty sure that $100 is not equal to $200.

Just goes to show that you are dumb, stupid, and an idiot for buying it when it came out.

By: ppcmd

ppcmd — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:07:44 +0000

You know what $100 credit is great and Apple did it for as noted previously for damage control. But you know what in part the jobsman was right in that Technology changes daily and it does. But if you are the company selling product A and you know full well you will be introducing product B in 2-3 months that will result in you dropping product A pricing, well then you screwed the pooch on that one.

I told many people who wanted the iPhone to wait for iPhone 2.0 or at least wait a few months to see what happens. Some did and some didn’t and both sides were happy at the time and only the gotta have it were not happy.

Now the only thing that really irritates me is you cannot get the new iPod OS that is on the classic onto the new iPod 5.5 which is the same iPod. I certainly don’t want to get a new iPod just to get the cooler OS.

Oh well.

By: iLLmatic

iLLmatic — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:00:13 +0000

and the puppets continue to dance. I can’t believe he’s actually giving you cry babies any money back in the first place, but its not even money! lol At the press conference, he said that everyone with an iPhone already will buy the iPod touch also. He called you all his children, yet nobody cares to think for themselves. Most of you are forced to believe that you have to have these products. Now, he gives you $100 that you can put right back into Apple’s pocket. I’m so glad I’m not a sheep.

By: think

think — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:57:50 +0000

I think apple is in “damage control” this is an AFTER THOUGHT.. I own the iphone, I paid 600, my local store gave me the price match, they have a loyal customer..

HOWEVER.. this my second apple product EVER.. I will never again buy a product from them in the first 100 days..

really are we all so simple that we overreacted to the drop, and now we overrreact just as much the other way when apple says “eh, cmon in, give us another 30 bucks, and you take out 50 bucks worth of stuff”

if the loyal fan / customer base was so important, apple would have instituted an “thank you” program at the unveil for the early adopters. Not as an after thought..

they showed you what they think of the first, most loyal, marketing customers.. you are worth an extra 200 bucks to them

me too, fool me once..

By: Gino

Gino — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:30:40 +0000

if you have bought the iPhone early, would you be taking the $100 credit? Or would you rather beat the system or the men and decline the $100.

By: Jordan Brown

Jordan Brown — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:06:52 +0000

$100 will just make someone throw another 50-100 bucks down to buy another overpriced apple product, and boost apple sales one way or the other. I am with Galvatron on this one.

By: AT

AT — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:06:19 +0000

Is it even worth noting that a 100$ credit in apple products is NOT giving you money back?

Apple makes more then $100 profit on most of their products, Steve jobs is simply lowering profit margins on a small percentage of returning customers.

Is this good? Yes indeed. Is it something to write home about? Hell no. Plenty of companies who offer discounts to regular/returning customers.

But hey….let the Apple craze go on!

Go Go Go Steve Jobs! Me and and me iPhone be balllllling!!!!!

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:44:31 +0000

I pity the fool who thinks apples gonna give them a good deal an give them back $100. They are still suckas.

By: enemes

enemes — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:32:57 +0000

@JJLO
> “They got pissed the last time I dropped the price, let them eat cake!!!”

They didn’t drop the price because they wanted to or because they just could. No. Apple is not a charity and they will not cannibalize their profit margins all for nothing. They dropped it because they want to reach certain milestone and the product was just not selling well enough. Cost reduction and volume? Right. That’s what they want you to think. We’re so nice. We’re passing savings onto consumer. Bullsh*t.

By: enemes

enemes — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:26:36 +0000

Ok… Ok.. So, you get a $100 bait for Apple store? What can you get there for $100? And what about the second $100? First their phone does not sell well, then they have a PR disaster. They had no choice, and even then they merely gave you a bate. Nice one Apple! Very clever.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:44:06 +0000

jeff hit the nail on the head… even pc components prices last longer… but who cares… halo3 will be out sept 25th

By: JJLO

JJLO — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:23:26 +0000

If apple ever thinks about dropping the price on something again for its customer’s…they will think twice and keep the price high. “They got pissed the last time I dropped the price, let them eat cake!!!”

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:55:50 +0000

First of all most early adopters expect the price too drop… The issue is the 2 month duration. This is unusually short for something like this. Kudos to apple In doing something.

By: whoster69

whoster69 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:49:52 +0000

iPhonies are so stupid it is almost unbelievable! Hey morons, he took $100 of your money even after he gave you $100 back! And you’re all falling over yourselves bragging how great this is. ROTFL! No wonder you fools picked the iPhone! You can’t wait to get taken and can’t even recognize it when you are!

By: whoster69

whoster69 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:49:33 +0000

iPhonies are so stupid it is almost unbelieveable! Hey morons, he took $100 of your money even after he gave you $100 back! And you’re all falling over yourselves bragging how great this is. LOLOLOL! No wonder you fools picked the iPhone! You can’t wait to get taken and can’t even recognize it when you are!

By: test5477

test5477 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:45:51 +0000

Gal, B- on spelling and a D on content.

I have been a loyal Blackberry user for 3.5 years. I have been using mac laptops for 12 years. I like both, they both make good products its not a either or type of thing. Like most things in life people try to make everything a black and white choice when you can like both and enjoy both. Sorry, no Gal.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:25:05 +0000

No commen sense is rare in general an test is a gripping apple fanboy. Apple customers =suckas

By: OGHowie

OGHowie — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:16:43 +0000

Nice gesture. I am definitely happy.

By: erick

erick — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:00:36 +0000

after all it might be part of Apple marketing plan…

By: Gino

Gino — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:45:13 +0000

Funny how we have people complaining about the $100 credit. I’m sure if you bought the iPhone early, you would take the offer in a heartbeat.

A side note, I see a lot of techies are the biggest whiner out there. Maybe most of them spend too much time with their toys they forgotten common sense.

By: test5477

test5477 — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:44:47 +0000

They won’t be doing that, be realistic

Btw –posting from my new 8gb iphone
and so far I am very impressed, coming from my blackberry 8800

By: salvador bobadilla

salvador bobadilla — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:32:07 +0000

@&$? 100 gift card. Give a the unlock code for the iPhone

By: test5477

test5477 — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:39:47 +0000

i fully expect apple to neither cut prices or offer rebates for anything anytime soon. They will not risk this ever again if possible.

**unless they make big money from the whole ordeal**

By: Winster D. Ceballos

Winster D. Ceballos — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:29:43 +0000

Excellent news for the early buyers, like us. Something is something. Now, I can get my wife a new iPhone with the $100 rebate.

By: Jeff B.

Jeff B. — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:25:33 +0000

OK now I know I’m gonna get hammered by everybody for this but even though this might’ve been the right thing to do, I don’t think jobs should’ve done it because if you buy an iPod Touch and in two months the price drops to something more reasonable, you probably aren’t going to get that difference back and even though this probably was the right thing to do since this is such a popular device, it just doesn’t make sense to do this. I mean this is how technology works and there’s no way around it. Prices change and usually you don’t get any part of the difference of the new price.

By: test5477

test5477 — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:48:26 +0000

i dont think its just fanboys, i think most people just wanted Apple to recognize that these people were pissed. $100 is pretty good considering its been 2 months for some people. Some people are just using this as an other excuse to bash and thats their right but $100 is $100, their are alot of good products to choose from. As i said $100 iTunes card would be good to me.