$100 Price Drop on iPhone / iPod Touch, Then 8GB Burial?
In a move that wouldn’t be very surprising, 9to5Mac is reporting that we may see a $100 price drop from Apple on the full iPhone / iPod Touch line within the next two months. The 8 GB iPod Touch is also said to be on the chopping block and will be dumped at the same time, leaving the 16 GB and 32 GB to occupy the GSM-less space. Perhaps the announcement will coincide with the expected SDK release near the end of February or perhaps it will happen sometime next month, but they’re pretty confident that it’s going to happen. This move does seem a bit hasty considering the larger-sized devices were just released earlier this month. Apple has been far more aggressive than your typical handset manufacturer however, so nothing would surprise us at this point. The post also speculates that the 8 GB iPhone would be dropped from Apple’s arsenal, but stipulates that nothing to that effect was mentioned by their tipster. The axing would bring the ratio of iPod Touch to iPhone back to 2:1 as we’ve had for the past few months, but $299 is a great price point that would likely scrape up a good amount of new business for Apple. Will Apple continue to enrage the blogosphere by stabbing at early adopters or will they wait a quarter or two and drop the prices as the next-generation iPhone is released? Our guess is the former…
I hope this is true! i’m in need of a new ipod.
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(Hats about righ they should have prced it that a t loucg day instead of prce gouging 600 also what’s been the achelies hee is the iphone is a pian to unlocka an you have to bouy a song twice to use it as a ringtone
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Sounds like a plan, very smart plan from Apple, as always
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wtf does anything you wrote actually mean???
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Gal comes out of retirement to troll the apple posts again. And again no one can understand what he is trying to say other than they he hates apple.
9to5 is not as reliable as others but the price drop would be needed to get to the 10 mill by the end of the year.
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Just goes to show you, once Apple gets all the Jobs Koolaid Kids to purchase their products, they then lower their prices. Because the intelligent and savvy realize the products just simply aren’t that earth shattering to justify a $200-300 premium versus devices with many ( not ALL, mind you.) of the same features.
Just be thankful Galvatron doesn’t use an iPhoney. His posts would look even MORE like a Helen Keller typing contest.
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thank you for your GREATLY appreciated opinion galvatron
we all care wat you have to say
no joke
if you are going to post on bgr
spell check before please
thanks!
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It felt really ironic reading this on an 8GB iPod Touch in the Apple store today.
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Good thing I decided to wait in getting my new ipod.
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Spell check does no good for Galvatron. His problem is that he is just plain retarded. I use to feel sorry for him, because I thought he was just special. Now he just gets on our nerves by ruining our BGR experience. I also think he might be doing it on purpose because he is probably just a jackass looking for attention.
Galvatron, please take your useless nonsense elsewhere.
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I was all set to buy the new 32 touch for a trip next week.
From this it looks as though the price will drop from 499 to 399 in the next 2 months.if I buy it at a bestbuy do they have a 90 price protection plan ???
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Unless they are going to come out with a 16gb Nano, no way would they cannibalize the Nano line like that.
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Here’s to me just buying my ipod on thursday! Now I got the touch it makes me want the iphone soo much more lol!
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I know the feeling ,now i just to test run one myself LOL
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@ jawsnj
Buy the 32gb touch for your trip then return it every 20-30 days till the price drops
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Galvatron needs a new keyboard or something, it must not be working properly, but if they lower the costs apple will hear a complait from me they can definately expect that
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its may and this was blogged in feb. i still dont see a price drop. next time get your info strait. im gettin an itouch. FUK THE WAIT AND GET THEM NOW BEFORE THEY CANCEL THE WHOLE LINE. Cause the itouch isnt doin so well on the charts.
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