a sucker born every minute - so glad to finally be failing
Jan. 9th, 2007 at 4:11 PM
My minute was a while back, but it's definitely true.
It will be mine. O, yes, it will be mine.
My current Cingular 2-year contract runs out in April. Perfect timing :)
Jan. 9th, 2007 09:25 pm (UTC)
What did you get for selling apple your soul? ;)
Jan. 9th, 2007 09:26 pm (UTC)
I don't know but I never get to tell you not to buy anything ever again. :)
Jan. 9th, 2007 09:52 pm (UTC)
what's so suckerish about wanting one? Good design, good features, time to upgrade your phone... why not?
(I'm a bad influence, huh.)
chriswicke
Jan. 10th, 2007 04:31 pm (UTC)
There are $599 good reasons why not. It's nice, but c'mon...
Jan. 10th, 2007 04:48 pm (UTC)
ah, but it's not *my* $599. I'm not buying one. ;-)
Jan. 9th, 2007 10:59 pm (UTC)
Suc-ker.
Jan. 9th, 2007 11:17 pm (UTC)
I'm glad there are early adopters....
... That way I don't have to be one.
Seriously, I intend to wait til they've been out at least two or three months before buying one. And then only if there haven't been any too-serious flaws showing up.
Jan. 9th, 2007 11:54 pm (UTC)
Re: I'm glad there are early adopters....
I usually want to buy the second edition of new technology. After that they start cutting corners and things don't last as long. But the very first edition usually has problems that they haven't fixed yet.
Personally I think the battery isn't long enough for me to feel comfortable with it. Sure, my current phone doesn't give me five hours of talk time, but it doesn't encourage me to use it as a source of music when I'm stuck in an airport for hours.
Jan. 9th, 2007 11:44 pm (UTC)
And for once Apple stock went up on news.
mama_pipa
Jan. 9th, 2007 11:46 pm (UTC)
Well, you aren't the only sucker, when I saw the iphone I was thinking that my Cingular contract is up in July...
I suppose I could justify it with the fact that I do own the stock too.
intuition_ist
Jan. 10th, 2007 12:12 am (UTC)
i'm sad... 1) it's frickin' expensive, even for a spiffy cell phone, and 2) service is thru Cingular (ask rob sometime about his Cingular experiences, ech).
i seriously think apple needs to rethink its premium pricing strategy. if they'd cut their prices by 20%, they'd get >20% more customers.
Jan. 10th, 2007 01:47 am (UTC)
20% more customers isn't enough. If their margin is 40% then cutting their price by 20% means cutting their margin by 50%, so 20% more customers isn't enough. They would need 100% more customers. 40% would be pretty stunning margins too, it's probably more like 15-20% at best.
Not to mention that if the number of customers goes up their margins might go down as they reach less eager customers who are more likely to need technical support or decide they're unhappy with it and return it.
Jan. 10th, 2007 03:32 am (UTC)
It's a phone + ipod + camera + pda. I know people who would pay over $300 for one of those.
Jan. 10th, 2007 01:49 am (UTC)
I'm anti-expensive phones, anti-PDAs, anti-ipod-lifestyle, anti-ooh-look-apple-shiny.
But I want one.
Am I changing or is it really different this time?
Jan. 10th, 2007 06:24 pm (UTC)
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a sucker born every minute - so glad to finally be failing
Jan. 9th, 2007 at 4:11 PM
My minute was a while back, but it's definitely true.
It will be mine. O, yes, it will be mine.
My current Cingular 2-year contract runs out in April. Perfect timing :)
Jan. 9th, 2007 09:25 pm (UTC)
What did you get for selling apple your soul? ;)
Jan. 9th, 2007 09:26 pm (UTC)
I don't know but I never get to tell you not to buy anything ever again. :)
Jan. 9th, 2007 09:52 pm (UTC)
what's so suckerish about wanting one? Good design, good features, time to upgrade your phone... why not?
(I'm a bad influence, huh.)
chriswicke
Jan. 10th, 2007 04:31 pm (UTC)
There are $599 good reasons why not. It's nice, but c'mon...
Jan. 10th, 2007 04:48 pm (UTC)
ah, but it's not *my* $599. I'm not buying one. ;-)
Jan. 9th, 2007 10:59 pm (UTC)
Suc-ker.
Jan. 9th, 2007 11:17 pm (UTC)
I'm glad there are early adopters....
... That way I don't have to be one.
Seriously, I intend to wait til they've been out at least two or three months before buying one. And then only if there haven't been any too-serious flaws showing up.
Jan. 9th, 2007 11:54 pm (UTC)
Re: I'm glad there are early adopters....
I usually want to buy the second edition of new technology. After that they start cutting corners and things don't last as long. But the very first edition usually has problems that they haven't fixed yet.
Personally I think the battery isn't long enough for me to feel comfortable with it. Sure, my current phone doesn't give me five hours of talk time, but it doesn't encourage me to use it as a source of music when I'm stuck in an airport for hours.
Jan. 9th, 2007 11:44 pm (UTC)
And for once Apple stock went up on news.
mama_pipa
J
an. 9th, 2007 11:46 pm (UTC)
Well, you aren't the only sucker, when I saw the iphone I was thinking that my Cingular contract is up in July...
I suppose I could justify it with the fact that I do own the stock too.
intuition_ist
Jan. 10th, 2007 12:12 am (UTC)
i'm sad... 1) it's frickin' expensive, even for a spiffy cell phone, and 2) service is thru Cingular (ask rob sometime about his Cingular experiences, ech).
i seriously think apple needs to rethink its premium pricing strategy. if they'd cut their prices by 20%, they'd get >20% more customers.
Jan. 10th, 2007 01:47 am (UTC)
20% more customers isn't enough. If their margin is 40% then cutting their price by 20% means cutting their margin by 50%, so 20% more customers isn't enough. They would need 100% more customers. 40% would be pretty stunning margins too, it's probably more like 15-20% at best.
Not to mention that if the number of customers goes up their margins might go down as they reach less eager customers who are more likely to need technical support or decide they're unhappy with it and return it.
Jan. 10th, 2007 03:32 am (UTC)
It's a phone + ipod + camera + pda. I know people who would pay over $300 for one of those.
Jan. 10th, 2007 01:49 am (UTC)
I'm anti-expensive phones, anti-PDAs, anti-ipod-lifestyle, anti-ooh-look-apple-shiny.
But I want one.
Am I changing or is it really different this time?
Jan. 10th, 2007 06:24 pm (UTC)
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