Surprise!!!!

Suprise!!!!

In one of the funniest moments(IMO) in cell phone history, Steve Jobs decides to say to all his loyal subjects that stood in line to get the jump on the new iPhones, sorry, but i may have my price point too high. And to top that I aint ready to pay just yet, beeoch!

A $200 price cut.

And in an effort to keep previous buyers happy, he is offering a $100 rebate to those who purchased back in late June.

First of all, i would NEVER spend $600 bucks on a phone. I would never spend $400 either. Call me old fashioned but i don't need to be able to watch tv in the palm of my hand. And if i want to listen to music, that's what my mp3 player is for. I realize that cell phones today are more multimedia devices than actually communication devices and that's ok..if that's your thing. I don't see the hoopla behind it anyway. Yeah, the screen flips all around based on the way you twist the phone and you can view videos and listen to music and surf for porn, but when I call your $600 iphone from my $79 ($49 after MIR) Samsung, who can tell the difference. Its a damn phone.

I equate this to all things technical. We, the American consumer, are fools for technology. When something is new, we want it and will pay through the nose for it. Who remembers paying $1300 for a VCR back in the early 80s. And just to show you that I'm not a hypocrite, i payed $200 for my DVD player in 2001 (which still works by the way). But as Master Yoda says, we have no PATIENCE. Do you think it cost Steve and the Apple Dumpling Gang $600 to make the iphone...probably around $79. But they know that there will be lines of folks waiting to get the next new gizmo. So he slaps a $600 price tag on it and here we come like lemmings.

I personally think those folks are fools for waiting in line for days just for a freakin' phone (take note..that's probably the only time i will ever use the word freakin' or friggin..i usually go for the gusto)

Hot Air Tip (take it for what its worth):

THINGS TO WAIT IN LINE FOR:

1. FOOD...if you are hungry enough you will wait

2. The bathroom...and if its a port-a-potty, you will probably want to be towards the front

3. Tickets to your favorite movie, concert, sporting events...location, location, location


THINGS THAT YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T WAIT FOR

1. A Beat Down

2. A Real life Reality Show

3. The Death of Jack Bauer

4. To give somebody your $$$$

The only time you should wait in line to buy a phone is at best buy, circuit city, etc., with phone in hand.


The news showed these guys camped out for an iPhone. They actually slept on the damn ground...FOR A PHONE. Icould see waiting for Apple to GIVE away the phones, but i would have to be free that day...not going to take off from work for it. But they actually stood in line to give away their money. Getting cheered on..."YEAH...I'M GETTING AN iPHONE!!!" Well guess what, Pedro? I will get mine tomorrow...and i wont smell like cheese after i buy it.

So the big F-you to these temporary homeless folks was for Steve to say thanks for the donation, here's a $100 back. The headline is "Apple seeks to calm irate early phone buyers" , but my question is "why be irate?" You knew the price was going to drop and that's the sacrifice you took. You wanted to stand on line to be the first to get an iPhone and the fact that you waited more than 20min for it shows that you were willing to pay any and all cost to get it. So what if Steve jipped you out of $200. Do you think the price is going to stay at $400???

Hell naw!!!...Next year this time, it will probably be $250.

Face it iPhone users. You asked for this and if I was Steve Jobs, i wouldn't give you shit. 270,000 people are entitled to $100 each. Do the math.