iPhone Owners Not Happy About Price Cut

by Darren

You can’t make everyone happy, as Apple is learning. In a move designed to bolster their market share, they lowered the price on the iPhone 8GB model $200 and discontinued the 4GB model altogether. Of course some people who bought the phone at lower prices.

People who had rushed to buy the Apple iPhone over the last two months suddenly and embarrassingly found that they had overpaid by $200 for the year’s most coveted gadget.

Apple, based in Cupertino, Calif., has made few missteps over the last decade, but it angered many of its most loyal customers by dropping the price of its iPhone to $400 from $600 only two months after it first went on sale. They let the company know on blogs, through e-mail messages and with phone calls.

Word has been coming in from disgruntled consumers. Truth is, many of them suspected that a price cut was in store. For anyone who has followed technology pricing for any time, the earliest to buy almost always overpay.

Not all Apple customers are up in arms, either. “I’ll forget about the unexpected credit long before I forget Jobs’s letter, which I found thoughtful in both senses of the word,” Mr. Hawthorne said. “Gestures like this remind me that Apple’s success is not an accident.”

How do you feel about Apple’s price cut?