Consumerist
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early adopters
AT&T Will Expand iPhone Upgrade Window For Early Adopters
Today AT&T announced that it will extend its best iPhone 3G S upgrade prices to customers who technically won't be eligible until September, which means a whole slew of customers who were on the wrong edge of eligibility are now being offered the better price.
In preparation for the phone's launch on Friday, AT&T wrote today: "We've been listening to our customers. And since many of our iPhone 3G customers are early adopters and literally weeks shy of being upgrade eligible due to iPhone 3G S launching 11 months after iPhone 3G, we're extending the window of upgrade eligibility for a limited time."
"AT&T Reconsiders Upgrade Fees For iPhone 3G Owners" [mocoNews]
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iphone mania
AT&T Rep Tells iPhone-Crazed Customers To Cancel AT&T Contract
Arnie and his wife have a fever, and the only cure is more iPhones. A shiny new iPhone 3G S to replace the clunky old 3G iPhones they've been forced to use, to be precise. Frustrated that the cell phone business insists on subsidizing the gadgets by only offering a sane price to new customers, or customers willing to upgrade, Arnie called AT&T. That's when he stumbled on a solution that's almost hilarious in its simplicity. More » -
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Stop Making Fun Of Me: Confessions Of An Early iPhone Adopter
Those of us who bought iPhones when they came out haven't been very popular over the last year. We've been viewed as impulse-buying fanboys who got suckered into paying to beta-test an incomplete product on an inferior network. Then Steve Jobs sold us out. Now our co-workers won't stop making fun of us. I bought my iPhone on June 29th, I still love it, and I can't wait to buy a new one next week. Inside, my reasons why. More » -
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The First Batch Of One-Year iPhone Warranties Are About To Expire, Or Why You Shouldn't Be An Early Adopter
Hey, Apple fanboys! Yeah, you, the ones who stood on line foaming at the mouth so you could be the first to buy those precious little pocket diamonds that didn't sell out. Your limited one-year warranty expires tomorrow, so break your phone while you can. As for the rest of us, let's look back at a year of the iPhone and remember the perils of being an early adopter... More » -
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It's Official: Early Adopters Are Jackasses
A new study by Mindset Media and Nielsen Online has created a better profile of gadget lovers who tend to buy new technology early and often—and it's no longer believed that they're just "wealthy young males." Instead, the early adopter type tends to score high in leadership and assertiveness, but low in modesty.
More »Avid tech consumers were also likely to be low in modesty and may be perceived as conceited or arrogant by others.
Low levels of modesty also correlate with what Welch calls "badge-buying", or a tendency to buy luxury brands. "So there's an element of pride in being able to have the latest and greatest, not just in the realm of technology, but in all other areas."
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early adopters
Great Idea: Website To Let You Share The Cost Of Fad Gadgets
David Pogue thinks the Pleo dinosaur is meh. He's seen it all before with Aibo, and despite all the "it's so lifelike!" ad and editorial copy devoted to it, the charm wears off pretty much the same day you buy it: "My surprise, though, was my kids' reaction. They thought it was really, really cool—for the first half-hour." He's proposed a new website idea where you'd sign up for the latest Hot New Thing coming out of CES, Toy Fair, Macworld, etc., then pay an ever-shrinking percentage of the original sales price to own it when your turn came in line. More » -
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iPhone Price Chopped Already, 8GB $200 Cheaper
Hey, early adopters! You've been screwed! Again! Steve Jobs announced at his keynote speech today that the 8GB iPhone is getting a price chop and the 4GB is going away completely, according to our sister site Gizmodo. More » -
seemed like a good idea at the time
Suburban Early Adopters Locked Into 75 Year Contract With ISP
Boy, that fiber-optic cable sounded like a great idea back in 2000! Now one suburban community is stuck with the contract they signed to have state-of-the art fiber optic internet and cable installed in their neighborhood... a contract that can last 75 years if their ISP continues to renew it. From the Washington Post: More » -
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