Apple Mulling Spectrum Bid
Great Idea
I would love to see Apple and Google run with the 700meg spectrum. I think most users are sick and tired of the crap the big 4 cell carriers dole out to its customers.
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Not only that, but Google and Apple have completely different business philosophies. Google wants to run ad-support so that it can give out free hardware. To Apple the word "free" is a forbidden four-letter word. I'm not sure how you reconcile that.
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Google is still in business to make a profit...and apple's prices are fair for what you get. There are far more greedy companies out there.
How many companies do you know that would give a rebate to their customers after a price drop?
Not many...
How many companies do you know that would give a rebate to their customers after a price drop?
Not many...
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1) I'm not dissing Apple for its business strategy. I'm just saying that it is what it is...and what it is is completely different from what Google does.
2) The rebate situation was a pr black eye for Apple.
First of all, it wasn't done out of the goodness of Steve Jobs' heart. If that were the case he would have announced it at the same time he announced that the price of the iPhone was dropping in the first place. That had to be done to placate the really pissed off customers who just discovered that a phone that might have been as little as a week old (and at most 10 weeks) had dropped in price by a third.
Secondly, it isn't a rebate. It's a credit that allows you to buy more stuff from Apple. Two completely different thin...
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2) The rebate situation was a pr black eye for Apple.
First of all, it wasn't done out of the goodness of Steve Jobs' heart. If that were the case he would have announced it at the same time he announced that the price of the iPhone was dropping in the first place. That had to be done to placate the really pissed off customers who just discovered that a phone that might have been as little as a week old (and at most 10 weeks) had dropped in price by a third.
Secondly, it isn't a rebate. It's a credit that allows you to buy more stuff from Apple. Two completely different thin...
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Whatever, rebate or store credit...its better than nothing.
And I have ZERO sympathy for anyone who paid $600 for an iphone...this is how technology works sometimes, you just have to deal with it. Yeah, they made the move for PR reasons, but they still could have not done anything about it.
And I have ZERO sympathy for anyone who paid $600 for an iphone...this is how technology works sometimes, you just have to deal with it. Yeah, they made the move for PR reasons, but they still could have not done anything about it.
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Well think, a credit just means that they are gana make you SPEND more money at there stores. SO, they are doing it to not only please pissed off people but to make more money in the process... Utter BS in my eyes
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The credit is good for accessories for your iPhone.
It's a concession, not a refund. The people who bought the iPhone for $600 when it first came out don't have any right to a refund. This isn't communism. Now some people ARE going to get a price-match refund but that's only people who bought it not too long before price change.
It's a concession, not a refund. The people who bought the iPhone for $600 when it first came out don't have any right to a refund. This isn't communism. Now some people ARE going to get a price-match refund but that's only people who bought it not too long before price change.
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A credit is better than nothing as long as you had already planned on buying something else from Apple. Otherwise it's pretty much just as worthless.
I didn't say that I sympathize with the early adopters. I'm just saying what's what. Yeah, that IS how technology works but never by that much that soon. It's unprecedented. And while I don't sympathize, I can definitely understand why any of them would be upset.
And yes, Apple absolutely had to do something. Otherwise the next product it puts out would have pretty crappy sales out of the gate while people waited for the inevitable price drop. And in such a scenario, the lack of faith could cause stock prices to drop, meaning everyone (Apple, customers, stockholders) would be in a ...
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I didn't say that I sympathize with the early adopters. I'm just saying what's what. Yeah, that IS how technology works but never by that much that soon. It's unprecedented. And while I don't sympathize, I can definitely understand why any of them would be upset.
And yes, Apple absolutely had to do something. Otherwise the next product it puts out would have pretty crappy sales out of the gate while people waited for the inevitable price drop. And in such a scenario, the lack of faith could cause stock prices to drop, meaning everyone (Apple, customers, stockholders) would be in a ...
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well go do it then! Until you can build me a functional iphone, your comment is irrelevant.
Based on what else is out there, and considering it contained some newer technology, I think the price was a little high, but not completely ridiculous.
And if you thought it was so bad, then you should have waited for the price to drop or not purchase one at all. Obviously hundreds of thousands of people thought it was a fair price and purchased the phone.
Based on what else is out there, and considering it contained some newer technology, I think the price was a little high, but not completely ridiculous.
And if you thought it was so bad, then you should have waited for the price to drop or not purchase one at all. Obviously hundreds of thousands of people thought it was a fair price and purchased the phone.
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well as you know, Google has a partnership with Sprint with Wimax but buying more spectrum by either Apple or Google might allow some newer devices and networks to come into play, which will allow for more competition and then the bigger companies in the wireless game would need to counter it by doing something. You are absolutely correct. Their business models are only to please themselves while with Google and Apple it is that too but they could offer some content and some advertising based to allow for a lower price or even free on those devices.
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