“It just got easier to make a profit by trading in an old iPhone — and still buy the latest model. Wal-Mart and RadioShack are dropping their prices for Apple’s device to less than $50,” Quentin Fottrell reports for MarketWatch.
“Both stores are cutting prices on the iPhone, which costs $99 from Apple with a two-year wireless contract or $549 without,” Fottrell reports. “Starting Saturday, RadioShack customers purchasing the iPhone 5C in-store will receive a $50 gift card that can be used toward their $99 iPhone 5C purchase, a spokesman for the company told MarketWatch. That offer ends Nov. 2. Starting Friday, however, Wal-Mart will also cut the price of the iPhone 5c from $79—a $20 discount on Apple’s price—to $45 throughout the holiday season, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman says.”
MacDailyNews Take: It’s the Battle of the Loss Leaders! Is that $0 we hear approaching? (While Apple continues to get full prices from these retailers, of course.)
Fottrell reports. “Both offers beat Best Buy’s terms: It offers a $50 gift card on iPhone 5c purchases from Friday until Oct. 7.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Come to papa, disillusioned Android settlers!
You made a mistake. It’s okay. Now it’s time to get a real iPhone.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Judge Bork” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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I’m waiting for the analyst to spin this negatively. “Apple slashing prices to move iPhones”…or something like that.
Which would be an outright lie because it’s the retailers “slashing” the subsidized prices, not Apple reducing the actual price of the phone.
It’s funny, because I went to Radio Shack to get a 5c for my daughter, and the clerk says that that Radio Shack is marking them down because they are not selling because Apple priced them too high. However, he had to order one from Verizon stock because Radio Shack is sold out. Seems to me like they must be selling.
I’m shocked that a Radio Shack clerk talked out his ass. lol.
Again, the question is – will they also cut the price of the 32GB model by a similar margin?
Yes they are
The problem with buying it from Wal-Mart, RadioShack, or Best Buy, is all they typically have in stock are the 16GB models, not the 64GB ones.
Plus they also don’t have cool glass staircases. 😉
The Messiah better not hear about this raging capitalism! It must stop! Send in armed troops!…yes, we can.
Oh, no, Oblahblahblah is too busy right now sitting for a photo shoot so that he can stare at himself even more with his crippling Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
I’m amazed he’s not golfing.
Where’s the button to vote negative stars for a comment?
you can access that function in this week’s Gallup: “How do you rate President Obama’s performance thus far?”
The worst you can do is one star for “very poor”. That’s what I just gave you.
STFU, retardo!
Give it rest, please.
when that rat bastard fascist is in jail, I’ll be happy to “give it a rest.”
… about the War Criminals at the top of the previous (Bush) Administration? Do you consider torture to be an “American Value”? How about “punishment without trial”? Or killing, then covering up the killing of, unarmed civilians?
This is NOT a POLITICAL forum. Make Apple-related comments or STFU.
uh, no one is arguing the war crimes of Dubya, don’t get your panties in a wad…however, as you may have heard, Dubya is no longer el presidenté…it was in all the papers.
Unfortunately they might not be unable to simply “give it a rest” due to plasticity and deeply grooved habitual pathways in their nervous system. It is like simply asking someone who has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to give it a rest – they need much more help than that.
We know that there are significant differences in the brains of those who identify as “Republican” or “Democrat”.
“Democrats showed significantly greater activity in the left insula, while Republicans showed significantly greater activity in the right amygdala.”
The right amygdala is involved in processing fear, risk and reward.
The left posterior insula is involved in understanding what others might be thinking.
All ways of using our brain are important but in some people these may become extreme and imbalanced such as addictions, obsessions, compulsions, mood and cognitive disorders etc.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/20/republican-democrat-brain-politics-fmri-study_n_2717731.html
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0052970
the fight to preserve liberty is not a “psycho-disease du jour.”
No, but your personality traits and those of Fwhatever certainly qualify as a serious neurosis, if not an actual psychosis.
mebbe I can get dat fixed wid muh ObamaCare, bitch.
Sent from my ObamaPhone
Imagine how much better the country would be with this outstanding and beautiful personality in charge!!!!
What a great place to live!!!!
botvijerk messiah for President!!!!
I can’t say the same for everyone posting in this venue, but botvinnik hasn’t really demonstrated a serious personality disorder, much less a psychosis. Disturbances need not possess a neurological basis, but can emerge as distinctive personality traits through maladaptive socialization or other environmental processes, and survive through reinforcement, e.g. behavioural rewards for boldness.
One may say that such types possess a forceful character, or are accented more on the rude side, or are standard bearers for an unpopular cause. But mental illness bespeaks a deeper derangement, involving gaps in the spectrum of human emotions that point to brain dysfunction.
As long as one can laugh at oneself, laugh at others (or with them), shed an unbidden tear, show surprise and delight, and wrestle with one’s own anger—I’ll take that for human. Irascibility is salt.
Huh?
Reject the false messiah, Obama!
All Hail the illumination, goodness and wisdom of the True Messiah, botvijerk!
All truth floweth from Him.
botvijerk messiah for President!
lol, Seamus, you’re so lame.
… did you just refer to the President as “The Messiah”? And attribute Christ-like socialist beliefs to him? (falsely, I must add)
And then the fruit-cake (below) instantly recognized your Off-Topic reference?
Guys … do you even recognize that by identifying him as such, and criticizing him in the same breath, you are also identifying his opponents as the demonic forces of “the AntiChrist”?
Talk about Bold Statements!
ladies and gentlemen, accepting the award in Hollywood for The Most Obtuse Human Being That Ever Lived….Wait a minute. here …
(insert fragmented applause and hushed snickering here.)
What is “du jour” or fashionable though is the current and long standing assumption that political beliefs and postures are determined by things like free will, analytical behavior etc.
Neuroscience is challenging this simplistic and increasingly outdated view, demonstrating that political views are highly associated with differences in brain structure and function. These can be objectively measured and used to predict political orientation with higher probability (83% and 71% for brain function and structure respectively) than the old prediction method – parental belief (70%).
“The functional differences did mesh well with political beliefs, however. The researchers were able to predict a person’s political party by looking at their brain function 82.9 percent of the time. In comparison, knowing the structure of these regions predicts party correctly 71 percent of the time, and knowing someone’s parents’ political affiliation can tell you theirs 69.5 percent of the time, the researchers wrote.”
du jour |də ˈZHo͝or, ˌd(y)o͞o|
adjective [ postpositive ]
(of food in a restaurant) available and being served on this day: cream of mussel, an occasional soup du jour.
• informal used to describe something that is enjoying great but probably short-lived popularity or publicity: attention deficit disorder is the disease du jour.
ORIGIN French, literally ‘of the day.’
Before this body of research coalesces into a theory of political inclination, the brains of switchers need to be scanned before and after they changed their party affiliation and presumably their cognition.
Perhaps there’s a “traitor” gene that motivates such behaviour and manifests as a distinct sequence of neural excitations.
Another universally reviled group, religious apostates, might as well join them in the lab.
Rationality may see its best expression in such investigations; it’s seen its worst when up against basic instincts.
Whatsat?
“du jour” adjective
enjoying widespread favor or approval.
(Or on a larger scale, the period of time where humans believed the earth was flat)
Synonyms big, crowd-pleasing, du jour, faddish, faddy, fashionable, favorite, happening, hot, in, large, modish, pop, popularized, red-hot, vogue, voguish
Related Words semipopular; favorite, preferred, selected; desirable, liked, wanted; celebrated, famed, famous, noted, notorious, prominent, renowned, well-known; fabled, fabulous, legendary; leading, notable, outstanding, prominent, remarkable; important, significant
it doesn’t mean those examples at all…see the above cite from an actual dictionary.
For the definition and synonyms etc of “du jour”, see the below source from an “actual dictionary” which is the same as already cited.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/du%20jour
“People are proud of their political beliefs,” says John Hibbing, a political scientist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. “We tend to think they’re the result of some rational responses to the world around us.”
But in fact, a combination of genes and early experiences may predispose people to perceive and respond to political issues in certain ways. Recognizing that could help the public and politicians to develop more respect for those with opposing viewpoints.
“I’d like to see people have a little less chutzpah about their political beliefs, and understand that some people experience the world differently,” says Hibbing.
http://www.nature.com/news/biology-and-ideology-the-anatomy-of-politics-1.11645
For the greater part of human history, political behaviors, values, preferences, and institutions have been viewed as socially determined….(the “du jour” or fashionable view)…
However, over the past decade, an unprecedented amount of scholarship utilizing genetic models to expand the understanding of political traits has emerged….
…
The emergence of this research has sparked a broad paradigm shift…(not “du jour” or fashionable)….
…in the study of political behaviors toward the inclusion of biological influences and recognition of the mutual co-dependence between genes and environment in forming political behaviors.
Click to access TIGS_978.pdf
I heard some people are experiencing lower prices on iPhones
MDN mods..please stop this insanity. I stop here for news and not political news!
okay, I’ll sing my rendition of “Moonlight In Vermont” instead.
MacMall is also offering the iPhone 5C for the same price at their retail stores in L.A. and Chicago. The iPhone 5S is also $10 less there. Not great for everyone, but if you live in L.A. or Chicago you’re in luck.
Source for definition of du jour…
Merriam-Webster
http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/du%20jour
du jour
adjective
enjoying widespread favor or approval
Synonyms big, crowd-pleasing, du jour, faddish, faddy, fashionable, favorite, happening, hot, in, large, modish, pop, popularized, red-hot, vogue, voguish.