Still overpriced.
Store credit at iTunes?
Don’t buy one.
Wow....a whole $100? That ought to help some of these folks cut their losses for the two weeks they camped out in line. I’m sure they lost a lot of tip money from their Domino’s deliveries.
Anyone who knows Apple should be smart enough to know about the “fanatic tax:” the early high price charged for new Apple hardware on release date.
This is dumb. Everybody knows the first to buy some electronic gee-gaw is always the highest cost. VCRs used to cost hundreds of dollars but now they are giveaways. Same with DVD recorders, not to mention computers!.....................I wanna rebate on my old XT!..........
Buy the new iPod Nano for cripes sake!
I predict another cut by Thanksgiving or during the Christmas rush if the sales are slow.
Ping.
For what you get, $400 is an excellent price.
It’s the rate plan that’s killer.
Suckers!
The ipod Touch is a nice stab in AT&T's back. Expect the iphone to crash soon.
At $399, Apple won't make a lot of money on the phone. It will make the big bucks on the kickbacks from AT&T, which are estimated at $150 per phone plus $9 per month per phone for a minimum of 2 years. Apple will easily MAKE more than $400 per phone, probably over $500.
Too many gizmos.
Nevermind the price.
What’s this thing do that worth complicating my life further by owning it?
Apple Hits Hard Road
SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple's decision to slash prices on its iPhone has investors fretting that the do-no-wrong tech giant is taking its lumps in the bruising cell phone market.
Apple shares slipped again Thursday as traders tried to sort out the implications of Apple's move to lower the cost of the 8-gigabyte iPhone from $599 to $399 and to end production of the 4-gigabyte phone that was priced more affordably.
The stock was recently off more than 1% to $135.16.
Apple's price cut, announced Wednesday, came just two months after the iPhone debuted ...
Daniel Del'Re, TheStreet.com Staff Reporter
I have never liked the way Apple always tried to have a monopoly on their platform, unlike IBM. They are doing the same thing with the AT&T carrier. Why have it limited to AT&T?
I am not rushing out and buying one. Not at that price and not if I have to be married to AT&T.
My hope is that some other manufacturer (Dell) comes out with their version of it and sells it for a lot less and makes it available for any carrier. Apple never learns.
This phone is just amazing however!!!! My friend who works for Apple has one and I am just so jealous!!!
This reminds me, wasn’t Apple going to change television as we know it with Apple TV? Did that ever come out? I don’t remember the stories of the iCultists camping out outside the iTemples for weeks.
Maybe it hasn’t come out yet.
Anyway, the only thing really worth buying from Apple is back-dated options. I got mine back-dated to 1984 and now I’m a billionaire over night!
Another reason I don’t buy anything Apple. Steve Jobs hasn’t quite figured out a smart business plan.
Look, idiots went nuts again (as they do with any new electronic device for some strange reason) and paid the $600 (or more on eBay, etc. - morons). They are suckers.
So they drop the price, which was inevitable, and the original losers that stood in lines days in advance to spend $600 they probably took out of their internet porn budget now whine when the price drops? “Drop Dead” would be my response.
But no, Jobs gives them a rebate. No wonder I see all those Macs sitting on everyone’s desk around the world! lol