Apple announced some new products and prices today, and apparently some people aren’t exactly (update: not all that displeased, as it turns out) pleased about the prices of iPhones dropping by $200 so quickly after they were introduced. Which I sort of get and then sort of don’t. Yeah, it’s a bummer and all that it cost more when you bought it, but then they’re not taking any of your functionality away. I think John Gruber sums the situation up nicely:

And for those of you who’ve already bought one and are pissed about the price cut, if you didn’t think the iPhone was worth $599, you shouldn’t have bought it. That’s how supply and demand works.

Indeed.

My price point for an iPhone is “free with a service contract like my current crappy phone.” When it hits there, I’ll probably get one. Why not?

For the time being, however, the prices on “classic” iPods — the kind that just plays music, which is all I’d use it for, anyway — have dropped and the disks have gotten bigger. For the same price that I got my 40GB model for a few years back they now have a 160GB model. That’s more space than my laptop has! I’m already having to filter out tracks when I load the iPod, so seeing these much bigger models at the same old prices is quite nice. (Not that I’m going to buy one, mind you. But still.)

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