OK, people, it's no more Mr. Nice Guy. I'm fed up! No more moderation, no more namby-pamby conciliations to those I disagree with, at least not today. I am plain, hopping mad. And who has pushed me over the edge?...
iPhone early adopters. (I’m one of them, though a virtuous one.) You may have heard, they just cut the price on iPhones. Get this:
“I just felt so used as a consumer,” he said. “They hyped up the iPhone for six months and built up our expectations, and then they grabbed our extra $200 and ran.”
Here is another guy:
“I feel totally screwed,” wrote one iPhone owner on the Unofficial Apple Weblog site. “My love affair with Apple is officially over.”
It is you people, you who resent Coase (1972), you people who induce wage and price stickiness and widen the Okun gap. You people, who don’t know what it means to sit back and enjoy your consumer surplus. You beasts!
And to think you are all carrying around these wonderful icons of modernity in your pockets…
AAARRRGGGHH!
(I thank a loyal MR reader for the pointer. Please note this post was published from my iPhone.)
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First of all, you are an idiot for buying any sort of new technology when it is first introduced to the consumers. Are you two years old? Every year, either around December or June there is some new and amazing technological gadget that comes out. Is it ever cheap, is it ever avaliable to all that want it? No, it is not. There is a reason for this, the reason being that the developers know that there is always going to be that must have consumer who will pay anything to be the only one on the block with a gadget. Well all I can say is you are a dumbass. If you had just waited a few months and not have been a greedy bastard, the must have demand for the product would go down, more supplies would be made and the price is going to go down. So quit your bitching and complaining.
Tyler, your post was one funny bit.
Even funnier was how seriously people take this iPhone stuff. Lucky for me we don’t even have them in Australia yet.
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All the major functions perform fully as advertised. The mini-iTunes store is a lovely touch, though I don’t find myself using it much. It almost feels like a symbolic gesture, pointing toward some ecstatic future when iPods will be wholly emancipated from servitude to the PC mothership. Browsing and photo management are gorgeous and indistinguishable from the iPhone experience. Ditto video and audio playback. I don’t see the “cover flow” interface as a game-changer, exactly, but I’m sure getting used to it. Is the click wheel done for? I wonder if this time next year they’re even going to be manufacturing non-touch iPods anymore.
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