Congrats on the Story Kev. Its good recognition of the tireless work you guys put into the site and your “expert” status. I don’t agree with you though… I can think of a long, long list of products that crashed in price after release and I know you know them too!

i don’t own an iPhone (yet) but i think a price drop after 60 days is too soon than we usually expect. good news for people who haven’t bought it yet, bad news for those who already did.

that’s why i usually stick with devices that i have (they still work well for me anyway), wait for comments on the new stuff from people like Kevin and JK, wait for a good price, then buy the ‘em!

whether the NYT story gave you good or negative remarks, congratulations Kevin!

Wow, Kevin, turns at New York Times readers are as rude as New Yorkers.

What’s the reporter’s direct line? I bought the Thinkpad X60, waited forever for the high-rez screen, and two months later Lenovo released the X61 with a newer processor. Really should be a front-page story, too. Especially if I had a blog that I could use this as a promotion for

As most of the other people have commented, only a fool buys an electronics product the first few months it is out. Look over the last 30+ years, all electronics drop in price within the first year on the market. About 35 years ago I purchased a Texas Instruments calculator for $125, then six months later you could buy the same thing for $20. Live and learn, at least you had more history to give you guidance than I did 35 years ago…
Quit yer bitchin…

Actually, getting quoted in the NYT is huge.
Kudos Kevin.
As for the rabid response here….
Let Fake Kevin handle it.

I really hope that the people who are flaming in this comments section realize how they appear to people who aren’t being hot-headed over KT’s response to this whole iPhone price drop.

Hey guys, get off my back. Let the baby have his bottle.

Seriously, you’ve ALL been tricked, just like I PRETENDED to be. Much like Apple leveraged its pile of whining iTards to draw gratuitous media focus on its tepid iPod press conference, we here at ktOnTheRun have used my own feigned self-pity disguised as grandstanding ignorance to draw new eyeballs onto MY personal tech blog. Thanks NYT!!!

I’m also a little disappointed that nobody called me out on my “early adopter” joke. Clearly, not every early adopter is also a tech/gadget addict, but tech addiction manifests itself in a host of seemingly benign behaviors, such as looking like an early adopter. FOUR HDTVS!?!? I don’t JUST early adopt. I early adopt and then adopt again and again and again!!! Other symptoms that we tech addicts display are brilliantly irrational public tirades about how we’ve been victimized by the very abusive partnerships that we’ve sought. Haven’t you’ve been paying any attention to me!?!?! Sure, my little addicition does appear like a desperate cry for attention, but can you blame me? Look at all the COOL stuff that the famous hacker JK gets sent to play with. He even has the audacity to break ktOnTheRun and post reviews about this stuff just to mock me.

And don’t you worry about my “rebate”. You know I’m just going to spend it on more merchandise from the dealer who got me into this mess in the first place. An addict wouldn’t have it any other way…

I’m just a squirrel hugging Apple’s nuts.

Good job on the story Kevin. I do think that what they printed makes you look a lot more radical then you really are.

But I do agree early adopters always pay outragous prices. I expect it when it comes to mobile tech.

Shoulda kept the Dash! just kidding.

Here’s my problem with this…it’s just not good policy. I know, it happens and has happened. On one hand, this is Apple. Apple just isn’t like other companies. Apple actually gives a crap what people think about them. Of course it could have also been their stock price going down the day of the announcement!

“Mr. Jobs”, “Mr. Tofel” WOW! I knew it was just a question of time. Congratulations!

Oh yeah by the way, I almost forgot…grats on the story Kevin.

Wow, a lot of people seem upset. I agree that all technology will eventually drop in price and something better and cheaper will come along. That’s just the cycle and we are all aware of that, including Kevin. However, you have to look at the context. The price drop came just over 60 days after launch and it was not for a new model of the actual phone. Now a price drop was inevitable, but this was no minor slash in cost; the price was reduced by 33%. When prices were reduced on the iPod line a couple months ago it was by a mere 6% – 7%, and this is for something that has been available for a year and is being pushed out by a new model. I don’t own an iPhone and I am not an Apple fan, but applying this to any product brings me to the same conclusion, it does not make sense. Maybe some of the public outcry does go overboard, but I don’t think it is all without merit.

Good god, what a baby… your head is in so deep you can’t remember the thousands of times that new technology (your speciality? lmao) prices drop after the first wave? I guess the whining and stomping got you what you wanted though. Thank your parents for allowing that tactic to work for you. Time to get my news somewhere else.

It’s not a ripoff unless you’ve never paid attention to any major technology, ever. How many cellphones fail to drop in price? How many MP3 players? Cameras? Memory cards?

$600 got you the phone, the bragging rights, and the marketshare to ensure that in 2-3 years, you can do it all over again. It’s hardly Apple’s fault that when people decide to subsidize their R&D.

“Caveat emptor,” let the buyer beware. The idea is so old the phrase is in Latin! You all took a chance. If you want to recapture some of that lost $200 dollars by selling t-shirts, go ahead and do it. I might even support you by buying one. When my brother made his Confirmation, his gift was a reel-to-reel tape recorder/player. When I made my Confirmation, my father and I were faced with the choice of 8-track or cassette. What about all the money Baby Boomers spent on vinyl records and now their offspring and nieces and nephews don’t know what a record is? Electronic gadgets are a risk and a gamble. You spent the money to live in the moment, now move on.