More iPhone purchases

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 06 September 2007 05:40:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

In a flash poll conducted by SurveyU the evening of September 5, 1,000 college students reacted extr...

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Corrupt Countries Were More Likely to Support the
OOXML Document Format

post from Daring Fireball on 06 September 2007 05:30:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Microsoft is sort of like a comic book villian (e.g. Lex Luthor) — even when they’re acting responsible, it ends up they’re up to something dastardly behind the scenes.

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About the Security Content of iTunes 7.4

post from Daring Fireball on 06 September 2007 05:16:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

iTunes 7.4 closes a security hole in the way it processes album art data embedded in song files.

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Current iPhone Customers get $100 Back

post from The Apple Blog on 06 September 2007 04:21:08 PM. © The Apple Blog

A letter from Steve Jobs on Apple’s site not only apologizes to early iPhone adopters, it promises them $100 in credit to the Apple Store in an attempt to make amends. This will hopefully calm the fires that are burning among many of the Apple faithful that feel “cheated” by yesterday’s $200 price drop.Wow. I [...]

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Open Letter From Steve Jobs to All iPhone
Customers

post from Daring Fireball on 06 September 2007 04:21:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

The nut: a $100 Apple store credit for everyone who already bought an iPhone, and a straightforward apology to anyone who was upset by the price cut. It’s also a wonderfully plain-spoken statement regarding “life in the technology lane”:

Second, being in technology for 30+ years I can attest to the fact that the technology road is bumpy. There is always change and improvement, and there is always someone who bought a product before a particular cutoff date and misses the new price or the new operating system or the new whatever. This is life in the technology lane. If you always wait for the next price cut or to buy the new improved model, you’ll never buy any technology product because there is always something better and less expensive on the horizon.

I think it’s clear that Apple was taken by surprise by the magnitude of the backlash regarding the price cut. They’ve responded quickly, humbly, and well, to avoid letting this issue spoil the good news from their impressive product releases yesterday.

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Yahoo! Messenger 3.0 beta

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 06 September 2007 03:40:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Yahoo! Messenger 3.0 beta 2 has been released, adding a number of significant new features to the in...

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AT&T Calls New iPhone Pricing a Special

post from Daring Fireball on 06 September 2007 03:39:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Hmm. AT&T:

iPhone is currently available at AT&T retail stores or at apple.com with special pricing available now through January, 31 2008; $299 (4GB model - while supplies last) and $399 (8GB model).

My reading of this is that for anyone who’s gun-shy about the price dropping again, they’re establishing that the new prices are good for at least the next five months.

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Damn Good Question

Rob Sama’s question for Steve Jobs:

When you released the iPhone, you declined to open up its API for fear that malevolent (or incompetently authored) programs had the potential to bring down AT&T?s network.

Given that the new iPod Touch is not connected to AT&T?s network, will you at least open up the API for that? Or are you afraid it might bring down Starbucks? network?

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iTunes 7.4

I wonder why they bothered releasing iTunes 7.4 before the ringtones feature was ready at the iTunes Store. It seems to me you’d want this feature available as soon as people upgrade, so it’s there to play with (and pay for ringtones).

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$100 credit to iPhone

Apple's Steve Jobs today said he would offer previous iPhone customers a $100 store credit toward pu...

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