Steve Jobs - To All iPhone Customers

Buying the 1st generation of an apple product is never a great idea, if you are going to be pissed off about problems or future price drops. Its just something that hardcore apple fans expect from apple and love about apple. I try and let others find the problems and buy the 2nd lot which either has more capacity or is slightly cheaper.<p>I guess with the iPhone a lot of the customers are first time apple customers, so they don't know how the system works.

Whenever I am tempted to buy some new and cool high-end electronic product, I ask myself, "Since this thing will probably cost half as much a year from now, do I really need to own it <i>right now</i>?" The answer is almost always "No."<p>(Of course, that new iPod Touch is--SLAP! Bad consumer! No retirement fund!)

Steve is brilliant! What can you get at an Apple store for $100? A keyboard, a mouse, or a gift card. This $100 store credit is going to end up selling MORE Apple hardware because everything is so expensive. People get to feel all warm and fuzzy again and Apple makes more money. It's amazing.

I've been reading Fake Steve Jobs too much. I expected a "Bokay, cheaptards?" at the end.

this strategy is about gaining and maintaining market share. 'pleasing customers' is merely a pheripheral initiative to the overall strategy of market share. jobs is an innovator, but he does it by sticking to old school traditional business strategies. i wouldn't be surprised, if sometime in the next decade, apple is accused of 'bundling', similarly to microsoft with IE and windows. apple has been gaining market share little by little in various industries. once their share reaches a dominant position, its products will become dependent on each other. until they reach that position, jobs will be the nicest guy in the industry.

Wow. This is why I like Apple. Despite all of the business rationale for this move, it actually feels like Apple cares for its early adopters. Whether they do or not is immaterial; the effect is still the same, it feels sincere.

"even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of iPhone"<p>what a fantastic line to put in an apology email. there's only one steve jobs.

Steve was damned if he did, damned if he didn't.

This is great! I'm pleased as can be. Hereby stating publicly to spend the money buying something else from them. :)

This is the reason that Apple is going to be the next Microsoft

Steve should issue everyone an extra $100 credit for being a dunce and going with AT&#38;T