Well after my last post I started seeing more of the whinging and moaning about the iPhone price cut. A whole lot more. In one thread I posted this:

To all those that are out side of the 2 week window, refund or rebate, I have one question, "Have you been satisfied with the iPhone before you heard of the price drop?" If yes then it was obviously a good value to you at the price. Complaining about it now is just regret that you didn't wait couple of months to buy one. But if it suited your needs successfully in the interim I just don't see the need for outrage. Any, I mean any, electronics purchase will be fraught with this peril. There is always the danger that a better and/or cheaper model will come out or that there will be a price reduction.

If you answered no to the question, well then I'm sorry you purchased a device that wasn't up to your expectations or didn't suit your needs.

But then I saw this post thanks to John Gruber of daringfireball.net. There really is something to this argument, "I paid a gagillion-bagillion dollars for this thing to be special and unique and NOW the plebians can all pick one up. Dammit who do I sue?" It really reminds me of my brother getting so mad when Siouxsie and the Banshees became popular with "Peek-a-Boo". Actually mad may be a bit of an understatement, pissed the fuck off is more correct. At the time I didn't understand it, why would you be upset that a band you like is getting popular and actually making more money? Really why? Later on I realized that it wasn't about the bands worth, it was about the fact that a good band was only know to the select few, the in the know, the elite if you will. Now that they were on the Top-40 stations all "street cred" from knowing them back in the day was lost. Oh some could sneer and look down their noses saying "I saw them back in 1845 and bought a burlap t-shirt!" But the exclusivity was largely gone. And so it is now, anyone that can afford to buy an iPod, well the iPod Touch anyway, can get an iPhone instead. Oh the humanity.

P.S.

Just because I haven't seen it mentioned by anyone other than myself and wanted to call dibs on it, below is what I wrote prior to the quote above.

Anyone else remember the quarterly investor/analyst call Apple had a bit ago? If I recall correctly they spoke of lower margins due to a "product transition". Seems to me the iPod Touch is a pretty major product transition. Not to mention that when you can get the iPod Touch for significantly less than $600 that pretty much meant Apple had to make an aggressive price cut. This is without even taking into account the economics 101 comment I made above. With it, this looks like a pretty well planed product roll out by Apple. It also helps throw into light the lack of a SDK for the iPhone. They didn't have one device but two they were developing that might need it.