“The surveys are in and iPhone customer satisfaction scores are higher than we’ve ever seen for any Apple product,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “We’ve clearly got a breakthrough product and we want to make it affordable for even more customers as we enter this holiday season.”
The 8GB iPhone is available immediately for $399 in the US through Apple’s retail and online stores and AT&T retail stores. The iPhone 4GB model will be sold while supplies last.
MacDailyNews Take: 8GB iPhone early adoption price = US$200.
No Beatles = disappointment for me. There is nothing there of use to me except the iTunes store on my iPhone. Do I get a $200 rebate?
I was so ready to buy a lot of Beatles albums tonight. I still want the remastered Sgt. Peppers.
Ripped.
Off.
Sure, I would have liked to save $200, but it’s not really that big of a deal.. I’m still happy I’ve had my iPhone since day one!
Really looking forward to the update too
Glad I waited. First?
ouch……
Beatles? I guess to each their own, but they are so over-rated in my opinion. I can think of maybe 3 songs that are okay.
I think Steve forgot to mention my $200 credit at the Apple Store.
weird decision.
the current line of products makes no sense.
why buy the iPod touch, without a hard drive, and not that much cheaper than the iPhone ?
why reduce the price of the iPhone by $200 ? that is really a bad sign.
i guess new iPhones are on their way, a 16GB model, maybe one with GPS ?
Of course I knew that the price would eventually come down. I would have been more upset if a 16gig iPhone came out.
$200 won’t make or break me.
I am surprised there was no Beatles announcement but honesylt, I have the CD’s I wanted already ripped years ago.
I like the ability to buy from my iPhone ( a bit miffed they dropped the price $200!).
What I really wanted was HD movie rentals! Oh well…the NEXT announcement I suppose.
4 GB—discontinued…
8GB—price cut…
16GB—just around the corner?
I wonder how long it will be before the 16GB version is released.
“why buy the iPod touch, without a hard drive, and not that much cheaper than the iPhone ?’
Have you somehow missed the hundreds of discussions about how people want an iPhone minus the phone? Well now they got it.
Most of iPhones features without the contract and AT&T;.
The price for the iPhone itself pales anyway in relation to the cost of the two-year contract with AT&T;.
200 USD give or take – you’ve got to have deep pockets one way or the other.
InTheShelter:
Unless you are of a certain age, I can (maybe) understand why you feel this way. To us 50somethings, there is still magic in those grooves (bytes)!!!!!
50 is the new 30!!!!
I could understand dropping the price after a year or something, but after just a few months? Way to punish the loyal die-hards Steve Jobs. Plus, I wanted a red shuffle back in February when they came out with ORANGE instead. So I got a blue one. And then they announe Red today. I love Apple, but today Steve Jobs is on my sh@* list.
Kinda funny how other companies lower their prices when they see disappointing sales (a la Zune), but Apple has a product that’s selling like hotcakes and they surprise everyone by slashing prices like this. Talk about playing hardball. What’s a competitor to do?
Why do I feel ripped off? Without a voucher or rebate to those who supported Apple in its newest venture based on faith alone, the company has just angered and alienated many in their core group of long-time enthusiasts. Six months after a product launch, sure. But six weeks? If they have any business sense, they’ll hop on this and make amends.
While I am surprised that the price has dropped so soon, I’m not upset by it. The more iPhones in service the more options and accessories that we are going to eventually see, just like with the iPod. The new pricing is ideal. It basically let’s an iPod shopper to add cell phone functionality for just a hundred bucks; an easy upsale. It also signals new models to come.
The downside is that I am already hearing news reports spinning the price cut as an “attempt to boost sales”, implying that goals aren’t being met. Sales have been off the charts already and Apple wants to continue the momentum with the new pricing.
@InTheShelter
What you don’t realize is that almost ALL the songs you’ve heard your entire life are courtesy of the Beatles influence on music.
C’mon, people! This happens every time Apple launches a new product – updates and price drops come fast and furious (though this is quicker than I would have expected). Those intent on living on the bleeding edge will always pay a premium and take a risk.
Anyone who has watched Apple for more than a couple of years knows what to expect: get it now and be an earlier adopter; wait a few months (or a few weeks) and get it cheaper and probably with initial kinks worked out.
You buys your ticket and you plays the game…
To those of you whining about, “Where’s my $200?”, well, uh, it’s not your $200 anymore. Ya see, that’s the way it works when you buy something.
I find it rather astonishing the some of you are so stupid you don’t understand that products *do* come down in price. Like it or not, that’s the world in which we live.
Go buy a new car, and then check out the prices a few months later when they want to make room for the new models. It happens all the time for “just introduced” products of all sorts.
Look, the rest of us knew they would come down in price, and said as much. But you wanted to be first, first, first, and live on the cutting edge. Well, that’s the price you pay. Living on the cutting edge is not free. In this case, it costs you 200 clams. Deal with it!
My iPhone is the best thing I ever bought. It’s not perfect, perfect until he doubles the storage & throws in gps, but otherwise the $200 for two months was worth it, to me.
To OpJ,
Speaking of your Mom, Fsck you and Fsck your family.
I would venue to guest that steve just let the food flood out for the feeding frenzy, oh poor zune…. drop the price and say how the future will be better…..
“WOW!” Your Passion and our dumb-ass products! Microsoft.