I know I said I was returning my iPhone, but as I mentioned I love having a Safari in my pants. So the other big news out of the Apple’s iPod redefining event this week is that they announced a $200 price drop on the iPhone. That’s a $200 price drop on a the iPhone that was released two months ago.
As you know I’m a very, very passionate man prone to wild fits of hadouken throwing and pantlessness, but about this price drop: so what? Yeah, sure, if you buy one today you get to keep $200 in your pants next to your iPhone (as a sort of demilitarized zone between the iPhone and your keys?), but you’re getting two months less of ridiculously awesome smart phoning than I do. That is to say, in the last two months I’ve gotten more than $200 worth of awesome out of the phone. Hell, I’ve probably gotten $100 a month worth of awesome just out of having my email with me at all times.
And that, my friends, is the reality of buying things. Steve Jobs suggested that these price changes are part of the technology market, but that’s not really the whole truth. Sure, technology becomes obsolete faster than, say, Coke does, but the whole point of buying things is that you’re getting something you want for a price that you feel is equal to how much that thing adds to your life. That’s it. Every day that I’ve had my iPhone has been $600 better than the day before I got the iPhone.
Some are ranting that we, the owners of iPhones, are being “ripped-off”. Did you feel ripped-off on September 3rd, before the price drop? If no, then clearly you felt the thing you bought was worth what you paid for it. It’s value — to you and your life — has not changed because the price has changed.
Yesterday Steve Jobs wrote an Open Letter in which he said all the people who got the iPhone before the price drop are getting a rebate of $100. This is great and appreciated, but only because free money is always great and appreciated. The truth is now we’re ripping Apple off. We get $100 back, but we don’t have to give them a month of awesome back. All the email, text messages, phone calls, YouTubes, web browsing, Google Mapping, iPhone hacking, and weather widgeting that we’ve gotten to do for the last two months is ours to keep, plus we’re getting paid $100 to have done it. Wow! Is there anything else you want to sell me, Apple?
So in conclusion, thank you, Apple, not for giving us (your loyal customers) free cash money, but for giving us a product that’s worth every penny we paid for it.
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