Quite an interesting day yesterday where Steve Jobs did publish an open letter (see the text here). Clearly I think that Steve and Apple did not really evaluate well the customer impact on the price drop… which for me I read that sign as the fact that Apple has a really strong and vocal user based for their iPhone : a sign of success. Don’t you think that if the iPhone was a failure the price drop will have been making so much news? It shows that the iPhone owner care about their product and the user based is large, I was hoping that Steve will drop some real numbers on the total iPhones sold since july 1st, but I guess we will have to wait for the quarterly result.Anyway back to the point : Apple and Steve Jobs are smart and they listen clearly to the feedback they are getting. The announcement and open letter are definitely a sign.I knew that by getting an iPhone early, I will potentially pay some price : that’s the early adopter disadvantages, but overall I am an extremely satisfied iPhone customer. So the $100 from Apple is quite welcome and unexpected for me… and you can be sure that I am not going to resell the coupon they’re going to send me.I will definitely use it for another Apple gadget, I just need to figure out which one !
Sep 07