Comments on: Apple Inc. sued for price cut on Apple iPhone

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:25:55 +0000

When she was forced at gunpoint to go in an Apple or ATT store and forced to buy an iPhone AND register it for service against her will, I could see a lawsuit… maybe. Nobody forced her to buy. She did it herself. She had to read that the agreements with the iPhone did NOT include a price reduction clause.
Apple is not forcing anybody to buy ringtones. They have contracts with the copyright holders of music – often not the real artists. Apple attacked the recording industry’s requirement that music had to have DRM restrictions for Apple to sell it. Amazon gets to sell DRM free music. What’s fair?
Whining crybabies should get a ‘time-out’ in today’s PC-speak, not a million dollars. Stupid lawsuits should have liabilities for failure to win.

By: Consumer Backlash?

Consumer Backlash? — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:23:26 +0000

Back in ‘96, Apple was a total underdog in the PC and electronics markets. It gave the impression of loving its customers and hating all things Microsoft/Intel. It stood for an elegant, easy to use, easy to fix operating system. Now, it has a dominant position in media players and is trying to dominate the cellphone market. It’s doing better on sales of Mac systems than in many years. These positions seem to have given the company a rather “cocky” attitude toward others. It’s attacked the recording industry. The recording industry fought back, giving Amazon the right to distribute music without DRM and at lower prices than iTunes. It’s shown its iPhone customers disrespect by cutting iPhone prices dramatically, probably before the early adopters who paid the big bucks even got familiar with all its features. It charges double for making iTunes songs into ringtones, which screws the consumer in favor of the recording industry. It shows again and again that its corporate creed is “We know what you want and what you need, you don’t.” Apple seems to be all about greed and arrogance these days. I’m glad I haven’t owned any of their products since about 1999.

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:13:47 +0000

I sincerely hope this turns out like david and goliath.

By: Donny

Donny — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:03:44 +0000

Lawsuits are just getting rediculous, as an average consumer (who is not trying to sue big multinational companies for big bucks or publicity) I think the price cut is completely reasonable and I bought my iPhone in its first week of sales.

By: JS

JS — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:54:59 +0000

I doubt they will win :/