No, that was wrong of Steve Jobs. The bottom line here is the hard core apple fans suffer. It is a sad day when loyal customers suffer with a competitive market like today. Being one of those loyal fans I would just like to say Steve Jobs made me look at other companies with that move and I sure there are a ton of others out there who feel the same way.
US$100 was not enough....

How did early adopters, like me, "suffer"? I paid $600, then the price dropped. If the price had not dropped, I still would have paid $600. So I'm not hurt by the price drop. (And since the price drop stirred up such a tempest, I now have a $100 certificate for the Apple Store I would not have otherwise had.)

However the price drop helped many people, and helped more people than it would have if the price drop had come later instead.

So, no one was hurt, many were helped. That's a Good Thing.

i'm with Jim Ratliff. i don't feel i "suffered" from my choice to buy early. i tend to look at the gift certificate from apple as being a sotr of "thank you" for being an early adopter.

Two really bad arguments. "instead of getting US$100 back you are getting US$50 back sort of" Huh? What kind of math is that? You are getting a $100 credit at an Apple Store. If you are buying something you would have bought anyway, you are saving $100, not $50 (and we all know what Ben Franklin said about saving pennies). If he's talking about the cost to Apple, well that's not about righting a wrong or rewarding early adopters, it's about punishing Apple.

As for the gradual price reduction, Jim Ratliff nailed it. That would only hurt people that buy over the gradual reduction. Attention people, the price reduction cannot actually be a bad thing! For anyone! The only argument that makes any sense it to say the original price was too high. So stop complaining about the timing and magnitude of the drop. You can complain (but please don't) about the magnitude of the original price. Of course, if you paid $600, you can't complain about that price. That would make you the idiot.

Well, if we spent US$600 on an iPhone we should get US$100 back to buy from anywhere else. If we had to chose from US$600 to use anywhere, we chose Apple; therfore, Apple should give us money back so we could use it anywhere we liked, just like we chose Apple in the beginning. Its not really a credit, when the money eventually HAS to go back to Apple-its not a loss for them, like it was for us.

I woke one morning to the shouts of the Apple iPhone Early Buyer Squad. Drug out of bed (ooh - ouch), I was ordered to gather up my I.D. and credit card and report to the long line forming outside the Apple Store.

It was humiliating, and then, as if to add insult to injury, Apple shirted people walked up and down the line handing out FREE water, coffee and sweets. The whole thing was disgusting, what with people talking with each other and all.

Well, once inside, I had a phone thrust in my hand by one employee while another took my I.D. and removed over $600.00 from my credit line. I was told to get to a high speed internet connection and sign up for a multi year monthly contract with AT&T - ASAP.

Then, hustled out of the store (but not before being required to buy a case for the dang thing) I was forced to run the gauntlet of yelling people and the incessant flash of the media cameras. I was even forced to say something to a TV crew.

It was HORRIBLE! And just last week I was instructed to again show up at the Apple Store where I was FORCED to choose $100.00 worth of retail products and was NEVER CHARGED!

During the first few months as an Apple iPhone owner I was inundated with bothersome queries and ogling onlookers every-time I used the damnable device.

I plan on suing Apple for all the trouble they have put me through. (Oh, and the free water and coffee wasn't that good either!).

Signed,
A Total Ingrate ! !

(laugh with me here people - WE are the Emperor and I for one feel a draft!)
That Ray Guy

First time in the history of capitalism people complain about something being cheaper.