live-blog at Engadget<\/a>, Steve Jobs announced the price change by saying “You know, the surveys are in: the customer satisfaction numbers on the iPhone are off the charts. They’re higher from iPhone owners than any Apple product. Ever. They LOVE them.” And guess how he showed his appreciation to those early adopters? He does it by letting everyone else<\/I> save $200.
Sure, some might also remember how Motorola drastically reduced the price of their low-selling ROKR a couple months after it came out. But there the price of the phone was subsidized by the carrier; no one actually paid full price for it, like we did with the iPhone. And a savvy gadget buyer would know going in that prices will drop over time and that new models would come out, superseding one’s own. But this usually happens after a year or so, or maybe after six months. But we’re talking only two months here. From the very end of June to the beginning of September. We haven’t even changed seasons. And that<\/i> is what galls me the most. A two hundred dollar drop after only two months. Two months! A measly two months.
So beware anyone interested in the new “iPod Touch” that got released today. With this new accelerated schedule, who knows how quickly and how badly you’ll get screwed.
Oh, and by the way? The multi-touch feature sucks for iPod use. It’s impossible to accurately scrub through an audio file and the accelerometer initiates Cover Flow every time you don’t want it to.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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These last few weeks I’ve begun to suspect Apple actually does not want me as a customer. For some inexplicable reason, I have fallen out of their favor and they are doing everything they can to lose me as a customer. There was the time I invested several thousand dollars in a desktop G5 only to have them switch to Intel a half year later; but I don’t have to go back that far.