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Originally Posted by nonanon
@Mores: Are you being facetious? You have an iPhone so you should know how quickly Apple dropped the price on that device, much to the irritation of early adopters. From $599 for an 8gig model at the end of June 2007 to 1/3 less at the start of September to $99 for a 3g model in June 2009. There were many news stories about how early buyers reacted to that price drop. That may impact whether Apple does the same thing with the iPad but I hope they repeat since I plan to hold off at least until late summer.
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There was such a huge outcry at the first price drop, they gave $100 or $200 store credit to each early adopter.
The $99 is a bad example because that's effectively an 1 yr old model when they announced that price -- 3gs had 2x memory and faster CPU -- and the 3gs still had better sales. Also ATT gives them a kickback for each phone...
Apple will want to avoid outcry of a big price drop and has no kickback. I could see a moderate one in the fall to spur Xmas sales.