Microsoft: Apple has it wrong, it's a PC+ era

[.Neo]

Just so I understand what you are saying here, Apple dropped the price of the iPhone two months after release, as they were making too much profit due to falling flash prices? Then Steve had to issue a release explaining to the folks that paid full price it was the "norm" for being an early adopter, but here's a $100 AT&T voucher for the pain.

The *only* reason the price was dropped was Apple wanted to sell more phones then they currently were, and they could afford to do so. The price was set too high initially.

What I'm saying is Apple could drop the price without sacrificing (much) profit perhaps because of falling flash prices and sell more in the process. No idea why you act surprised, the following year this trend continued with the iPod touch's storage being doubled while maintaining the same price point. It isn't hard to imagine the initial batches of iPhones cost more than those following, especially not because of the high demand.

[seta-san]

they are different devices and i'd use them in different situations. I'd still stick to my PC. Nothing can compare in raw processing power.

[Manish]

Not sure if this has been posted already in the thread, but The Verge has a nice editorial about this particular subject:

http://www.theverge....crosoft-pc-plus