Comments on: The price of a 3G iPhone

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Comments on: The price of a 3G iPhone – one more point http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/07/10/the-price-of-a-3g-iphone-one-more-point/ The Visible Hand in Economics Fri, 22 Apr 2022 20:54:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/07/10/the-price-of-a-3g-iphone-one-more-point/#comment-1731 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:11:35 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=525#comment-1731 Indeed – I suspect that consumer get some innate satisfaction from complaining. It must have something to do with the anglo-saxon nature of society in New Zealand 🙂

]]> By: Eric Crampton http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/07/10/the-price-of-a-3g-iphone-one-more-point/#comment-1730 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:28:12 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=525#comment-1730 Just wait… if Apple does here what it did in the States and dropped the price after a few months — the moaning of the folks who bought early was hilarious. ‘Twas one of the few times that Cowen was roused from his general mushiness and smacked people around a bit.
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/09/stop-whining.html

Stop whining

OK, people, it’s no more Mr. Nice Guy. I’m fed up! No more moderation, no more namby-pamby conciliations to those I disagree with, at least not today. I am plain, hopping mad. And who has pushed me over the edge?…

iPhone early adopters. (I’m one of them, though a virtuous one.) You may have heard, they just cut the price on iPhones. Get this:

“I just felt so used as a consumer,” he said. “They hyped up the iPhone for six months and built up our expectations, and then they grabbed our extra $200 and ran.”

Here is another guy:

“I feel totally screwed,” wrote one iPhone owner on the Unofficial Apple Weblog site. “My love affair with Apple is officially over.”

It is you people, you who resent Coase (1972), you people who induce wage and price stickiness and widen the Okun gap. You people, who don’t know what it means to sit back and enjoy your consumer surplus. You beasts!

And to think you are all carrying around these wonderful icons of modernity in your pockets…

AAARRRGGGHH!

(I thank a loyal MR reader for the pointer. Please note this post was published from my iPhone.)

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