Comments on: Steve Jobs preaches to his fanboys http://www.canspice.org/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-preaches-to-his-fanboys/ all about a canadian guy living in hawaii Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:18:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Early Adopters: Steve still loves you :: canspice.org http://www.canspice.org/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-preaches-to-his-fanboys/#comment-37591 Early Adopters: Steve still loves you :: canspice.org Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:01:49 +0000 http://www.canspice.org/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-preaches-to-his-fanboys/#comment-37591 [...] You early iPhone adopters don’t need to pull all your hair out. Uncle Steve has listened to your cries that dropping the price of the iPhone by $200 2 months after release was unfair: 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. [...] [...] You early iPhone adopters don’t need to pull all your hair out. Uncle Steve has listened to your cries that dropping the price of the iPhone by $200 2 months after release was unfair: 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. [...]

]]> By: Chad http://www.canspice.org/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-preaches-to-his-fanboys/#comment-37581 Chad Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:06:51 +0000 http://www.canspice.org/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-preaches-to-his-fanboys/#comment-37581 Heheheheh. You're absolutely right, of course. Heheheheh. You’re absolutely right, of course.

]]> By: Brad http://www.canspice.org/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-preaches-to-his-fanboys/#comment-37568 Brad Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:07:05 +0000 http://www.canspice.org/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-preaches-to-his-fanboys/#comment-37568 Chad, the Internet is hardly a place for logic and rationality. :-) Chad, the Internet is hardly a place for logic and rationality. :-)

]]> By: Chad http://www.canspice.org/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-preaches-to-his-fanboys/#comment-37553 Chad Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:22:14 +0000 http://www.canspice.org/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-preaches-to-his-fanboys/#comment-37553 It's a free world. If they can charge it and people will happily buy it, who is to say they're wrong? And who's to say the people buying are wrong? As for the people who bought iPhones last week... Who cares? A week ago they decided that the cost of the iPhone was worth it, and so they purchased. Dropping the price today does nothing to retroactively invalidate their decision. They might have waited a week for the price to drop, but you could always wait longer. That's always the way it goes with new-fangled tech toys. Whenever you buy a computer, you pick the one you want for the price you're happy with, then you buy it. Then you IMMEDIATELY stop looking or thinking about it, because the day you buy a computer is the day it becomes obsolete. It’s a free world. If they can charge it and people will happily buy it, who is to say they’re wrong? And who’s to say the people buying are wrong?

As for the people who bought iPhones last week… Who cares? A week ago they decided that the cost of the iPhone was worth it, and so they purchased. Dropping the price today does nothing to retroactively invalidate their decision. They might have waited a week for the price to drop, but you could always wait longer.

That’s always the way it goes with new-fangled tech toys. Whenever you buy a computer, you pick the one you want for the price you’re happy with, then you buy it. Then you IMMEDIATELY stop looking or thinking about it, because the day you buy a computer is the day it becomes obsolete.

]]> By: Brad http://www.canspice.org/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-preaches-to-his-fanboys/#comment-37549 Brad Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:40:10 +0000 http://www.canspice.org/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-preaches-to-his-fanboys/#comment-37549 That's my point. Ringtones shouldn't be expensive. They shouldn't be cheap. They should be free for songs you already own. What Apple's essentially doing is charging you a buck to convert your song into another format. And it won't even work on songs from CDs you've ripped, it'll only work on songs you've already payed a buck for from Apple. They're double-dipping, and everybody (you included, Al) thinks that getting a ringtone for their iPhone for a buck is cheap. Sure, it's cheap when compared to the other rip-off artists out there, but it's still a rip-off. Apple pulls the wool over people's eyes and everybody thanks them for it. That’s my point. Ringtones shouldn’t be expensive. They shouldn’t be cheap. They should be free for songs you already own.

What Apple’s essentially doing is charging you a buck to convert your song into another format. And it won’t even work on songs from CDs you’ve ripped, it’ll only work on songs you’ve already payed a buck for from Apple. They’re double-dipping, and everybody (you included, Al) thinks that getting a ringtone for their iPhone for a buck is cheap. Sure, it’s cheap when compared to the other rip-off artists out there, but it’s still a rip-off.

Apple pulls the wool over people’s eyes and everybody thanks them for it.

]]> By: Alasdair Allan http://www.canspice.org/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-preaches-to-his-fanboys/#comment-37548 Alasdair Allan Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:11:44 +0000 http://www.canspice.org/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-preaches-to-his-fanboys/#comment-37548 I don't think you realise what ringtones cost. It's not something I buy myself, I don't really see the point, but the "latest" ringtone (usually a badly sampled couple of seconds of a song) can set you back as much as £5 (that's US$10). When I heard how much they were charging all I though was, "<em>Wow, that's cheap, they've just buggered up the entire ringtones market for everyone else...</em>". All a matter of perspective I guess! But yup, we all saw the iPod touch coming. I was more interested in the deal with Starbucks to be honest, it's one of the first real location-aware applications that have made it to market. It'll be interesting to see if it actually makes anyone any money... I don’t think you realise what ringtones cost. It’s not something I buy myself, I don’t really see the point, but the “latest” ringtone (usually a badly sampled couple of seconds of a song) can set you back as much as £5 (that’s US$10). When I heard how much they were charging all I though was, “Wow, that’s cheap, they’ve just buggered up the entire ringtones market for everyone else…“. All a matter of perspective I guess!

But yup, we all saw the iPod touch coming. I was more interested in the deal with Starbucks to be honest, it’s one of the first real location-aware applications that have made it to market. It’ll be interesting to see if it actually makes anyone any money…

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