$100 for early iPhone adopters Wow. I’m shocked. In an open letter published today, Steve Jobs offers $100 of Apple credit to all customers that purchased an iPhone before $200 were hacked off the asking price. Yesterday, in a post that I deleted soon after because I felt whiny, I wrote that Apple should offer at least $100 to the early adopters. Looks like Steve is doing just that. As has been said elsewhere, it’s not the actual price drop that disappointed people, but the fact that it dropped 200 bucks only 10 weeks after its release. Now that’s some great customer service.
99¢ + 99¢ = $1.98? No way!
Thank you, Apple, for doing that math for me. Now let me do some math of my own.
Apple’s iPhone holds songs. Lots of them. Some people would like for those songs to play when they receive a call. And, understandably, many of them would like for the songs to start playing at a certain point when a call comes in.
In the latest version of iTunes, a brilliant piece of software, Apple has added a feature that allows these people to do just that: pick a song and decide where they want it to start playing when they receive a call. However…
Apple charges them a dollar to do so. (Okay, 99¢. Same difference.)
So, basically, these people are paying 99¢ for a software feature. And not just once. Every time they want to use this feature in iTunes, they have to cough up another buck (read: 99¢).
See, you’re not paying for the ringtone. The ringtone is simply a 30-second clip of a song you already own. You’re paying to make it. By yourself. You do the work, then you pay someone else for your work. It’s like spending $10 on a stock photograph, then paying another $10 to crop it. What a load of crap.
Whatever. Custom ringtones are so last year anyways.
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
