Complaining about iPhone Price Drop

Finding The Right Price - Forbes.com:

"When Apple dropped the price of its iPhone by a third after only two months on the market, even its most loyal buyers complained bitterly,"

Who? Me?

Zhang points out that another obstacle to pricing new products, particularly technology gadgets, is an inability to do wide market tests without trading off the secrecy necessary to protect a developing product from copycats.

True, but that didn't make it sting any less.

While the iPod was more or less in a class by itself, the iPhone is a new player in a fully developed, competitive cellular phone market. "The competitors will work hard to defend their positions. There will be a lot of new products and pricing."

Neither do I, but that didn't make it sting any less.

He points to the phone's new features, its exclusive tie to wireless carrier AT&T (nyse: T - news - people ) and all the hype associated with its launch. He challenges Apple's critics to present a model of how they would tease out all these elements to determine the right price: "I'd like to see their math."

So would I.

Am I over it? Yes. Do I think their are many others that still aren't? Yes. And, even though I'm over it, I now have no choice but to factor this in to my decision to "wait in line" in the future. ...Oh, who am I kidding, other people have to factor it in, but I'll just use this blog, and the fact that my aapl stock is doing WELL to rationalize any premium I would pay.

I won't stop complaining about the fact that AT&T doesn't work well in my apartment and doesn't work at all in my place of employment, whereas Verizon did work.

And, I can't wait for sanctioned third-party apps. If it doesn't happen when Leopard is released, I'll consider risking a "bricking".