iPhone/iPod price drop…

The rumour sites are going crazy at the moment. Obviously not content with their share price falling, Apple have either deliberately leaked fake stories or are actually taking serious action over the next few weeks to combat the oncoming recession.

The newest rumour is that a $100 price drop on both iPhones and iPod Touch's will be occuring over the next 3 weeks. This, to me, sounds a little bit ridiculous, considering that the 16GB iPhone and 32 Gb iPod Touch were released only last week. Surely Apple must have learnt their lesson after last year's debacle, when the reaction forced Steve to offer $100 store credit to the iPhone's early adopters.

Perhaps not- the usually reliable 9to5mac are reporting this news, supposedly suggested by a reliable source. Further to this, the 8GB iPod Touch and iPhone will be discontinued... not likely- why would Apple cut their iPhone line down to just one high-priced model, when the lower priced version is most likely to achieve that '10 million by end of 2008' figure. Whether Apple pulls this off, without a negative reaction, will remain to be seen, but I'm going to step out here and say that this isn't going to happen. It makes no sense to cut prices a mere 3 weeks after a new release...

Written by Will on February 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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