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Sep. 7th, 2007 10:36 amAs I'd been preoccupied of late, I hadn't looked at the hubbub surrounding the iPhone re-pricing until two nights ago. Guess I missed most of the whining, especially before the announcement of the $100 store credit yesterday:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/
Am I bothered by the price drop so soon? Not a lot. As mentioned in a previous post I don't usually do the "early adopter" thing where gadgets are concerned. Musicians and music? When I'm interested, oh, yeah. Not gadgets. I really did want the iPhone and am satisfied with the overall performance so far, and have ideas how I can make better use of it. After having made the purchase and leaving the unopened box around for while to contemplate, I guess that's when I was certain I was okay with the price. And I assume prices do go down after a while or other rebates/incentives pop up, so I tend not to angst much after I make a decision.
For a short while I thought the iPod Touch might be a better device for me, though in looking at the specs I saw it had the same wi-fi (but no EDGE) & browser, but no separate e-mail. I've found EDGE to be slow for web browsing in my everyday path from work to home and back, but it's fine for e-mail the way it's set up on the iPhone. I've noticed a few places where EDGE web browsing was fast, but one of those was during my L.A. trip. As mentioned before, I found I've been able to reclaim some "home time" since I'm able to deal with e-mail while riding public transit, so the iPod Touch wouldn't be a benefit.
I looked at the amount of storage I'm using on my iPhone now. Of the available 7.3 GB not taken up by the OS, etc., I have 5.8 GB I haven't used. There are 105 songs, five videos (four music vids, one 1-hr tv ep), 15 photos I've loaded in, and 102 photos taken by the iPhone camera. I'll definitely be loading more songs this weekend. Still have a lot of room, I think.
Bottom line: nice to get the $100 credit but I'm satisfied with the iPhone and am okay with the original purchase price.
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/
Am I bothered by the price drop so soon? Not a lot. As mentioned in a previous post I don't usually do the "early adopter" thing where gadgets are concerned. Musicians and music? When I'm interested, oh, yeah. Not gadgets. I really did want the iPhone and am satisfied with the overall performance so far, and have ideas how I can make better use of it. After having made the purchase and leaving the unopened box around for while to contemplate, I guess that's when I was certain I was okay with the price. And I assume prices do go down after a while or other rebates/incentives pop up, so I tend not to angst much after I make a decision.
For a short while I thought the iPod Touch might be a better device for me, though in looking at the specs I saw it had the same wi-fi (but no EDGE) & browser, but no separate e-mail. I've found EDGE to be slow for web browsing in my everyday path from work to home and back, but it's fine for e-mail the way it's set up on the iPhone. I've noticed a few places where EDGE web browsing was fast, but one of those was during my L.A. trip. As mentioned before, I found I've been able to reclaim some "home time" since I'm able to deal with e-mail while riding public transit, so the iPod Touch wouldn't be a benefit.
I looked at the amount of storage I'm using on my iPhone now. Of the available 7.3 GB not taken up by the OS, etc., I have 5.8 GB I haven't used. There are 105 songs, five videos (four music vids, one 1-hr tv ep), 15 photos I've loaded in, and 102 photos taken by the iPhone camera. I'll definitely be loading more songs this weekend. Still have a lot of room, I think.
Bottom line: nice to get the $100 credit but I'm satisfied with the iPhone and am okay with the original purchase price.
