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September 14, 2007
iPhone Users Go Directly to Jail Store, Collect $100 Credit
Steve Jobs is a very smart and powerful businessman. So did he purposely bite his tongue last week when he announced a $200 iPhone price cut -- just two months after launching the product? Was it a plot to steer additional hype toward the iPhone so the new iPods wouldn't steal all the thunder? Did he plan all along to offer store credit to those who shelled out $600 for an iPhone? Was Master Steve just looking for an excuse to write a sappy love letter to Apple fanboys and girls the world over? Does anybody even care?
As promised in the letter, Apple is now offering $100 in store credit to those who bought the iPhone at a premium.
Apple knows you love your iPhone so much that you're just dying to run back for another iGadget. You cannot, however, spend the credit on iTunes content, as indicated in the small print:
Customers may not redeem their store credits: (1) at any iTunes Store in the United States or elsewhere....
Get your credit here and find your nearest physical store here or shop online.
Read on for more details.
Graphic by the inimitable Bobby Solomon for LAist.
Store credit requests must be made by November 30, according to Apple. If you happened to purchase your iPhone between August 22 and last week's $200 price cut, never fear, you can apply for price protection -- presumably a rebate matching the price difference -- but you must do so by Wednesday the 19th (after which you'll only qualify for the $100 store credit).
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I think you can use it in iTunes, you just have to go to an apple store and buy a (physical) iTunes gift card, then use that.
Unfortunately, gift cards are not considered "qualified purchases" per the small print:
(emphasis mine).It turns out that Apple seems to be wavering on the iTunes thing. Bloomberg News was told that YES you can buy iTunes gift cards with the credit and that in fact the ToS on the Apple site "is incorrect and is being revised."
Apple just loves playing with us.
sell it as cash to someone waiting in line to buy something in the apple store?
Bought an iPhone? Haha.....fools. Wait for v2.0
iPhone, as every Apple product, is more than the sum of its parts. iPhone and everything Apple is an experience which by design, ease of use, and enjoyable functionality generates appreciation and loyalty usually reserved for the Divine.
So, although the $100 refund towards Apple merchandise is welcome, I would have comfortably endured the price cut as part of the cost of my engaging early in this ultra device we lovingly call iPhone. I think it's the most amazing device on the planet.
By the way... I'm using to use my $100 Apple Store credit toward the purchase of the latest and greatest 24" iMac. It's way cool. Way!
iPhone, as every Apple product, is more than the sum of its parts. iPhone and everything Apple is an experience which by design, ease of use, and enjoyable functionality generates appreciation and loyalty usually reserved for the Divine.
So, although the $100 refund towards Apple merchandise is welcome, I would have comfortably endured the price cut as part of the cost of my engaging early in this ultra device we all call iPhone. I think it's the most amazing device on the planet.
By the way... I using my $100 Apple Store credit toward the purchase of the latest and greatest 24" iMac. It's way cool. Way!
iPhone, as every Apple product, is more than the sum of its parts. iPhone and everything Apple is an experience which by design, ease of use, and enjoyable functionality generates appreciation and loyalty usually reserved for the Divine.
So, although the $100 refund towards Apple merchandise is welcome, I would have comfortably endured the price cut as part of the cost of my engaging early in this ultra device we all call iPhone. I think it's the most amazing device on the planet.
By the way... I'm using my $100 Apple Store credit toward the purchase of the latest and greatest 24" iMac. It's way cool. Way!
Glenn, I love how you devotion to Lord Steve precludes you from ever prefacing "iPhone" with "the."
This is straight outta the book of Jobs, where products are not objects that can be referred to as a definite article. Apple products are, in fact, living things that can often possess your soul.