An interesting thing that was announced during Apple’s “The Beat Goes On” keynote speech by Steve Jobs, is free WiFi access for iPhone and iPod owners in Starbucks coffee houses. But only for iTunes access…
In reality, this sounds like a rather good idea, because you’ll be able to get a new song while you’re at Starbucks (where a lot of us are for our midday coffee fix), but at the same time wouldn’t it be better to have completely free WiFi iPhone access?
This is a challenge from iPhone World to the iPhone open source community — be the first to create a program that would allow for free Starbucks WiFi iPhone access for *regular internet* and get $200. We’re not joking, actually we’re dead serious. You will do a favor for all of us and get some cash in the process.
Let us know if you succeed and we’ll pay up what we promised! (Note: you’ll need to release an executable of the program to the public — it’s not just for us. How will you do it? Maybe using iTunes’ executables to fake a connection to iTunes server while it’s actually accessing the web? We don’t really know, that’s why we’re putting up the cash prize — we would just code the program ourselves if we knew how to).
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Apple's controversial decision to slash the price of the iPhone has left the many who waited to purchase the iPhone until now absolutely ecstatic, but it has also left the many, many Apple fans who devotedly rushed to the stores to purchase their iPhones feeling badly burned. Still, there may be hope for some. A couple users on the Apple Support Discussion Boards are claiming that Apple refunded the difference in cost for their iPhone.
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Early iPhone adopters reacted angrily on Wednesday to Apple's $200 price cut, but if you purchased an iPhone recently, you are not without options. According to Apple?s posted policy, you can get a credit if Apple reduces its price on any shipped product within 10 calendar days of shipment.
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If you bought an iPhone in the past 10 days from the Apple Store (and perhaps any Apple store) and you’re mad that Apple just cut the price $200, you may be in luck.
This page on Apple’s web site details Apple’s 10-day price guarantee like so:
Should Apple reduce its price on any shipped product within 10 calendar days of shipment, you may contact Apple Sales Support at 1-800-676-2775 to request a refund or credit of the difference between the price you were charged and the current selling price. To receive the refund or credit you must contact Apple within 14 business days of shipment.
So if you’re a very recent iPhone buyer and you’re feeling burned, call that number (or visit the store where you bought it, if you bought it in person) and see if you can get some relief.
[Hat tip: Daring Fireball]
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Written by Jason Snell on September 5th, 2007 with no comments.
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Interesting quirk on the Apple store: both the Apple Component AV Cable and Apple Composite AV cable for the new generation of iPods also list themselves as iPhone compatible.
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Is this a miscategorization of Apple’s product database, or a suggestion that the iPhone is capable of video out, perhaps pending a software update? I bought my iPhone assuming it couldn’t do video out, but it would be pretty awesome if it turned out that it could. Especially if the iPhone’s little brother, the iPod touch, can do it.
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