Why I Love Apple
09/06/07 21:32 Categories: Techbit
Now I understand Apple is a business company. They
want to be profitable and make money. They want you
to buy their products! But despite of them being a
company I still love them! And here is one of the
reasons why: As you all know 61 days ago Apple on
June 29th introduced their iPhone. For $600 you could
get the 8Gb model iPhone. The early adopters went
ahead and cashed out $600 for one. Yesterday Steve
Jobs (CEO of Apple) had a big press event and
introduced a whole new line of iPods and after that
he announced a $200 price drop for the 8GB iPhone.
Now everyone that spend $600 on an iPhone seemed to be upset even though they agreed to spend $600 on it. Now Apple as a company has no obligation to show any sympathy towards those people (Only the people that bought it within the last 14 days are able to get a refund on it). But Steve Jobs himself wrote an open letter here basically saying he will give back a $100 store credit for anyone who bought the 8GB iPhone. Now I understand that people can only use that $100 in the (online) Apple store and people will probably spend more then that but nonetheless Apple is not obligated to give any money back. And do not forget that Leopard is coming out sometime next month and a lot of people are planning to buy that anyway so why not save a $100 on something you were going to buy anyway?
To conclude my long post here. I don’t own an iPhone (yet ;) ) cause 1. I still have a contract with verizon and 2. I didn’t have $600 for an iPhone and I still don’t have $400 for an iPhone :P. But nonetheless, it is still one of the many reasons why I love Apple :).
Now everyone that spend $600 on an iPhone seemed to be upset even though they agreed to spend $600 on it. Now Apple as a company has no obligation to show any sympathy towards those people (Only the people that bought it within the last 14 days are able to get a refund on it). But Steve Jobs himself wrote an open letter here basically saying he will give back a $100 store credit for anyone who bought the 8GB iPhone. Now I understand that people can only use that $100 in the (online) Apple store and people will probably spend more then that but nonetheless Apple is not obligated to give any money back. And do not forget that Leopard is coming out sometime next month and a lot of people are planning to buy that anyway so why not save a $100 on something you were going to buy anyway?
To conclude my long post here. I don’t own an iPhone (yet ;) ) cause 1. I still have a contract with verizon and 2. I didn’t have $600 for an iPhone and I still don’t have $400 for an iPhone :P. But nonetheless, it is still one of the many reasons why I love Apple :).
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