Scoble’s Open Letter to Steve Jobs
- September 7th, 2007
- 3 Comments
Oh, Scoble! You and your “talking back to power” jive. See, ever since Steve Jobs broke cover and told iPhone early adopters they could have $100, those selfsame early adopters have been pissed. I see the move as simple economics — the cellphone industry does this all the time. Take a look at the RAZR. When it first came out, you paid $500 for it and now they give them away with a Big Gulps at 7-Eleven. However, Scoble is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it any more.
What does he want? What we all want: an SDK, video camera, Flash, and Java. He, like Dave Winer, wants a T-shirt. And ice cream. And a hug.
Apple changes things up all the time. How about the poor folks who bought a recently price-reduced Zune? Besides trauma counseling, what do they deserve. Bupkus, right? So suck it up. Pretty soon the iPhone will be $59.99 at iPhone Hut at the mall and then we’ll see where this whole meme leads.
Dear Steve Jobs [Scobleizer]
hannibalchew (Who am I?)
1 year ago
shouldn’t it be “folk” and not “folks” who just bought a recently reduced zune?
Sascha (Who am I?)
1 year ago
John, you must be having a good day, or maybe you are already half-way down sedation highway in preparation for the weekend. On a Monday you would have told Scoble to take his wishlist and shove it up his a….
What does a cold Wiener Schnitzel have to do with global warming? Just as much as wanting an SDK has to do with getting a $100 gift certificate for being an early adopter.
It’s bizarre: Apple didn’t have to lower the price on the iPhone. But they did, and people started complaining, because whenever somebody saves some money, someone else who already spent it complains about it. Apple didn’t have to give a rat’s ass about those people. But they did, and decided to show that (in some ways) customer satisfaction is as important as selling products.
But no, for Mister First-in-line-at-Palo-Alto-Apple-Store Scoble this still isn’t enough. He wants MORE. He wants to see his geekish pursuit of complete control over his beloved round-edged phone fulfilled.
The irony? Had Steve Jobs announced a couple of new iPods without lowering the iPhone price, Scoble would have never had a reason to complain about it, and we wouldn’t have had to read about it, and I wouldn’t have had to write this comment. Instead we would all be happily paying $599 for our iPhones, birds would be chirping, people dancing on the streets, happiness throughout the world.
Terry Lechecul (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Only in bizarro world does getting screwed by 200$ become “gee, look how that nice man is giving us $100″.
Something tells me the Kool-Aid aint grape.
Even Jobs realized after the faithful sheep were shorn that something had to be done. His act of contrition then became canon for the followers who now will spend a grand most likely on a laptop.
1000
+ 600
- 100
I bow to the judo master, those ‘nice’ gestures will gather them even more sales.
Bravo.