Watching the Apple iPod announcements today was an interesting bit of entertainment. Or rather, I should say, watching the reactions to the announcements. I'm not trying to be cruel when I say I enjoyed watching all the WTF's scroll down Twitter when the price cut of $200 was announced. I don't blame those who were upset. It does seem a little early, a lot manipulative, and smacks of "we got our pile at your expense, and now we'll get even more just a bit slower, sucker." Life on the bleeding edge of early adopterhood. Fake Steve weighed in on this as only Fake Steve can.
I'm also wondering if Real Steve didn't put a kink in the armor of future pricing schemes by Apple (and others) as there will, I'm guessing, be quite an uproar from some folks about this, which may or may not lead to more folks playing wait and see on the next big thing.
A bit of interesting news out of this came all of the talk of price protection. TDavid offered up this site, PriceProtectr, that might help out in the future, though I doubt it will help those trying to calculate whether or not they got $200 worth of value since June 29.
