Posted on 07/03/2010 9:38:54 PM PDT by stripes1776
Clearly, you are not interested in honest debate.
Geez, - he just went straight for the race card.
LOL ...
“You said “previous version” (singular). The *version* before the iPhone 4 was the 3GS.
Clearly, you are not interested in honest debate. “
Way to take it out of context. Another brilliant example of honesty and integrity from a macbot, NOT!
Driftdiver. Dishonest. Liar. And a cheater! Equal to any lying Democrat.
Talk about parsing words, you weaseling, sniveling troll. You said, in post #93:
Bunnyslippers: “$199 for the iPhone 4 is not expensive.”driftdiver: True but consider thats half the price the previous version was released at.
Driftdiver: When they start reducing price it means something.
Words mean things. You can't go back and change them later to try and make you somehow right, when you are clearly lying and got caught.
You specified the immediately preceding iPhone version, not any preceding iPhone model. AND you further made time an important issue in your argument by your final sentence by linking your putative current price reduction to some current motive!
NOW we have you digging back two and a half years to the first generation iPhone, skipping over the $199 release of the iPhone 3Gs last year, and the year before that's $199 release of the iPhone 3G, and triumphantly and gleefully shouting "Gotcha!" because you found your double price factor of an iPhone being sold for $399.
That certainly is NOT 'the previous version iPhone," is it, driftdiver? And is the price reduction your point implied current??? No. So can it be inferred, as you wanted, that Apple was reducing it's pricing currently due to current pressures? NO!
You, sir, have been hoist on your own petard, and proved to be a dishonest cad!
Yes words mean something, like arbitrary code execution.
You clearly prefer to libel and slander me. Defamation of character is not a worthy occupation for you.
You said the iPhone had always been released at $199. I provided a link proving you were wrong. Don’t choke on the crow bones.
What do you think a WiFi hot spot is?
Something that has defined terms of use; for example, most restaurants with free WiFi have rules that you actually patronize their store if you want to use WIFI.
Of course, since I can use my phone to create a WiFi hotspot wherever I am (without breaking the law), I must admit I really never use them. Not only does my phone do everything over 3G that it does over WiFi, I can use my laptop at any time, too! And yes, even other phones and laptops can connect as well, if I choose to let them in to my new router-via-cell-phone connection.
Liar. you ARE a sniveling, lying coward who is afraid to quote MY words accurately, because they prove you to be either (A) Incompetent, (B) deliberately and dishonestly misrepresenting my statement to paint me as incompetent, or (C) a liar.
The truth is A,B,and C.
These people are like crack heads....LOL
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.
First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to lower the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399, and that now is the right time to do it. iPhone is a breakthrough product, and we have the chance to 'go for it' this holiday season. iPhone is so far ahead of the competition, and now it will be affordable by even more customers. It benefits both Apple and every iPhone user to get as many new customers as possible in the iPhone 'tent'. We strongly believe the $399 price will help us do just that this holiday season.
Second, being in technology for 30+ years I can attest to the fact that the technology road is bumpy. There is always change and improvement, and there is always someone who bought a product before a particular cutoff date and misses the new price or the new operating system or the new whatever. This is life in the technology lane. If you always wait for the next price cut or to buy the new improved model, you'll never buy any technology product because there is always something better and less expensive on the horizon. The good news is that if you buy products from companies that support them well, like Apple tries to do, you will receive years of useful and satisfying service from them even as newer models are introduced.
Third, even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of iPhone, and even though the technology road is bumpy, we need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price. Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these.
Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple's website next week. Stay tuned.
We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers. We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple.
Steve Jobs
Apple CEO
Then there’s this, from the Wikipedia page... Was the original iPhone un-subsidized? Mebbe so... Whatever, my main point stands: today’s subsidized pricing is unchanged since the 3G.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_iPhone#cite_note-46
iPhone 3G pricing model changes
With the July 11, 2008 release of the iPhone 3G, Apple and AT&T changed the U.S. pricing model from the previous generation. Following the de facto model for mobile phone service in the United States, AT&T will subsidize a sizable portion of the upfront cost for the iPhone 3G followed by charging moderately higher monthly fees over a minimum two year contract.
Wait a minute, I thought you guys were all railing at me about how it was just the last version that was included in the pricing.
In fact I recall some very nasty insults about that very same issue. And you wonder why I don’t like mac users?
“Or words like “Show us a link proving that’s occurred in the wild, or it didn’t happen.” ‘
In security you don’t wait until something has happened. You base it on capabilities. Or would you prefer people do nothing and live in ignorance until their mac has been destroyed by malware?
Plus you guys rail at Microsoft everytime a patch is released to fix an issue, regardless of whether a hack has been done using that vulnerability.
Your hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Thus, using someone else's WiFi.
‘In other words you have no evidence whatsoever. ‘
yeah only apples website.
“It’s no surprise, because OS X has been remarkably free of malware”
Unsurprisingly apple has code installed to prevent malware.
“Ignorance has nothing to do with it; many of us use OS X precisely because we’re informed about security.”
Willfull ignorance
‘But I don’t expect you to acknowledge that. You’re too busy hating and hating and hating. When you’re not spewing half-baked FUD.”
You just couldn’t hold it back could you, all that hate filling you up.
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