Jeff Carlson (.Thought)

8 GB iPhone Now $400. Damn.

Yes, I finally broke down and bought an iPhone - on August 8, which inconveniently for me is outside Apple's 14-day price protection guarantee. That means I paid $600 a month ago for what costs $400 now.

But I'm not really upset, honest. Every single time I get a phone call, I feel a zing of excitement because Apple did the experience right. And, as John Gruber wrote:

(And for those of you who’ve already bought one and are pissed about the price cut, if you didn’t think the iPhone was worth $599, you shouldn’t have bought it. That’s how supply and demand works.)

My other favorite quote of the day is from poster "bdkennedy1" on Macworld's forums:

I swear, Steve could stick a touch-screen on a toilet brush for $900 and someone would buy it and whine.

Toilet touch! It's so crazy, it just might work.

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Control of information is hugely powerful. In the US, the threat is that companies control what I can access for commercial reasons. (In China, control is by the government for political reasons.) There is a very strong short-term incentive for a company to grab control of TV distribution over the Internet even though it is against the long-term interests of the industry.