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Originally Posted by saints
Love em or hate em, Apple dropped the price of the iphone by $200 but will give all the owners that paid the full price a $100 gift certificate, now thats good PR
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Yea, saw that on engadget when it first popped up an hour ago.
Some are saying its a publicity stunt, but I think Steve is a genuinely good guy and I really like the open letters he puts out on the website because its a bit of a personal touch having a message straight from the top (in the same way his keynote speeches are always quite entertaining, as opposed to the usual corporate business-plan mumbo-jumbo).
*hands up if you were sat on engadget of gizmodo refreshing their live-blogs every 10 seconds for the start to end
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I found some of my friends who aren't even into geeky stuff that much were sat on the engadget one!
The Starbucks thing was a bit wierd, but if they've been working on it for 2 years then it probably explains why he did that fake prank-call thing to Starbucks at the iPhone announcement. I don't know why they make it out to be such a special feature, but obviously they felt it was worth 2 years of R&D! Personally I think the Touch would make a good coffee-mat
Early-adopters for the iPhone accepted the risk that all early-adopters take and really they shouldn't expect any money, but they're getting it. I like.