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Are you being highly cynical? Yup.
Bitter and twisted? Maybe.
But are you right on the money? Oh, yes!
Splendid stuff!
Steve,
Are you being highly cynical? Yup.
Bitter and twisted? Maybe.
But are you right on the money? Oh, yes!
Splendid stuff!
Best thing I've read in a long while
Errr...Originally Posted by Bob Crabtree
not so much.
I read an apt analysis on another forum:
For most companies, people get upset when they put their prices up. For Apple, people get upset when they put their prices down. Jobs may be egomaniacal and self-absorbed (Cringley has an interesting little tale to tell on his page about that), but the mania surrounding Apple products has taken on a life of its own and is the true cause of this nonsense. Blaming a CEO for daring to make money for his shareholders is bizarre in the extreme and makes me wonder if Hexus hasn't got a bit too close to the RDF.
Not really, because he devalued the item by a 3rd. In two months.
Even the latest graphics card don't degrade like that. Whats good for a companies short term, might not benefit the consumer / religious zelot fan base, or even the companies long term prospects.
I think the point is that users will be upset, early adopters except they will get screwed a little bit, but not that much.
For instnace the PS3 i bought on launch day, knowing they wouldn't sell out (price to high imo) but they gave us goodies, free/discounted games online etc. Now the bundle price cut dosen't leave me fealing quite so bitter, as i had months of use, and some perks that the late comers don't get.
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The real error with Apple's new iPod line has nothing to do with price-drops, it's the way they've threatened the whole iPod ecosystem.
The new iPods won't feed out video in the way that the old ones did. While there is some excuse for Apple's redesign of the four-connector headphone system (since the extra contact is now needed for the iPhone's mic input), this affects systems that used the dock connector as well. I'm sure a lot of people have invested in some fairly fancy (and costly) 3rd-party iPod video solutions that will be broken by this change. (There was a hint in the new specs - the iPod classic now outputs 480p, and that's not a standard composite signal.)
Widespread 3rd-party support is a critical part of any market-dominant system. Purposefully breaking that is just stupid.
BTW, I liked Apple's press release today - 1 million suckers bought the iPhone while it was selling at a 50% profit margin, and they were happy to do so. Anyone want to lay odds on how many MBA theses will use this as an example of perfect marketing in the next few years?
(Oh, another BTW, this is not the first time Apple has dumped the price on a product, Aperture 1.0 had a similar massive price-drop and early-adopter recompense.)
What I'm really looking forward to?
The UK price.
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What, for the comedy value? The justification from Apple alone for the conversion rate should be most amusing..
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Priceless and bang on the money; I suppose I've always had an aversion to the Jobs RDF (no, I don't have an ipod, I have a Sandisk Sansa and love it), and for me, this has echoes of the spin that Sony tried to put on the Euro PS3 debacle.
charleski,
As always, you walk your own path and your comments are insightful and informative.
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