Sunday, September 16, 2007

I hate Bill Maher, but you know what? This time he's right.


This is what I really wanted to say when the pussies started whingeing about the iPhone price cut. But instead they made me put my friggin name on that non-apology apology. I told Katie Cotton, you wait and see, customers are like toddlers, you give them a little on this, they're going to come back whining about something else. Sure enough, now the friggin crybabies are bitching because they don't like the terms of the rebate, and they're publishing articles like this one where a dude from BusinessWeak says it's "completely lame" that he can't use his $100 rebate to buy songs on iTunes or an iTunes gift card. Lame? You know what's lame? Lame is being a grown man and complaining in public about a few restrictions that are put on the hundred-dollar gift that someone just gave you -- especially since, and here's the kicker, the author of this article admits in the final paragraph that, um, he doesn't actually own an iPhone. So he's just prattling to hear himself prattle. Dammit! I friggin told my people this would happen.

People, listen. It's just money. Money is shit. It's beside the point. If you're trying to decide whether to buy our products based on how much they cost -- if you're sitting down comparing an iMac to a comparably equipped Dell to see which one costs more -- well, let me just say this: You should not be buying our products. You don't get it. You don't understand us. And you won't be happy. Go away. Go buy from someone else. Truly, you'll be better off, and so will we. There. I said it.

26 comments:

Anonymous said...

Actually, from every time I've compared, a comparably equipped dell costs more than a mac.

Anonymous said...

FSJ,
I bought a frozen pizza at the grocery yesterday, and today they have the same pie on sale at half price. So I did what any tard would do, I complained and asked for a refund of the difference. Damn, I almost got arrested. High tailed out of there in a hurry, cause all the shoppers were looking at me as if I was a leper. The indignity of it all. What makes it worse is that I can't even get infected by leprosy! A boat load of other bugs, but not leprosy, it's an animal diseases, for crying out loud.
Vegan Vegan
(Eating my humble pie)

StrikerObi said...

And the best part is you can use the $100 to buy an iTunes Gift Card, just not an iTunes e-gift card. Stupid distinction but whatever.

Anonymous said...

Well said. The cheapotards can go cram a Dell up their... Dells are good, by the way, for the average person.

Anonymous said...

I could never find a comparably equipped Dell. It always had the wrong OS on it.

Skorry said...

I went to see a movie on Saturday night and the very next afternoon people were being sold tickets for, like, 40% off. For the same damn movie. WTF?

halhiker said...

I actually like Bill Maher but this time he's wrong.

Hey, when is the price going down on the new Nano? My kid wants one.

fake kitten said...

Hey i though Bill Maher Got Beat Up
and got his face scratched up by CATS
Cats and their CLAWS Hey Maher! don't look now
but a Panther is Behind you Ready to Tear You up
and RIp you apart......ooh theres Maher's flesh and bones
all over the floor looks like Maher's ego is blurry from all the Windex being sprayed on his glass windows in his mind
Car Crash coming

Oh and Please Don't Run Over Leopard!
or you'll have nails ripping your skin
from one eye to the other with sockets dangling
from those eyelids.

Anonymous said...

Oh humble Steve, to further make the guy you were quoting look like a further frigtard, you could link this:

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/15/iphone-100-credit-can-be-used-for-itunes-gift-cards/

The guy says that you can actually buy iTunes gift cards with the credit.

Namaste oh great one.

Anonymous said...

The unlocked iPhone is openly sold in India -

http://shopping.rediff.com/shop/storeproductdisplay.jsp?prrfnbr=10216792&strfnbr=2564&frompg=Apple-iPhone_shoppinghome

Anonymous said...

Well people have a right to complain about the $100 credit. It is no where near as generous as the one offered by MicroSoft after the recent price reduction for the Zune. :)

justflybob said...

A repeal on the Nerd Tax

Pricesless....

Anonymous said...

Dude, what's with this "whingeing" crap? Jobs is pretentious but he's not faux-British. East-coast thing? At any rate, someone born in los altos is very unlikely to use that lame-assed excuse for "whining".

Anonymous said...

"money is shit"

I guess you're rolling in shit from you're non exercise of those stock options that you did'nt benefit from that your company had to take a $20 million charge for.

Again that you did'nt benefit from...

Do you work for McLaren Mercedes??

Anonymous said...

"The unlocked iPhone is openly sold in India -

http://shopping.rediff.com/shop/storeproductdisplay.jsp?prrfnbr=10216792&strfnbr=2564&frompg=Apple-iPhone_shoppinghome"


and it's "on sale" for USD 1500. Nice deal!

ascended_master said...

Bill Maher=SHIT

"Mac's are for people that matter"

Fake aj said...

FSJ,

You should announce next week that you want your $100 back.

Anonymous said...

All humor and ripping early adopters aside, the iPhone's in big trouble. That's all there is to say about this price drop.

proud to have paid full price said...

I'm on dangerous territory here. FSJ, don't you know most of your customers don't think? They feel. As a result they have no logical thinking capacities.

In June, July, and August they thought nothing of spending $599 for a beautiful iPhone. Then you, R/FSJ, cut the price in order to squeeze the testicular cojones -- spanglish for balls -- of your lame-ass CELL-phone competitors.

And then your fan boys revolted. Did you think about writing a blog post to clue them in that a price cut was coming? You know, kinda like your preparing them for a press backlash on the iPhone? Whatever.

Apple customers are as irrational as Linux "freetards" - except they have lots of discretinary money to spend on products 'cause they work instead of being poor-ass 34th year grad students.

Here is what you should do to get even, errr, to show them the error of their ways -- offer any iPhone customer a full rebate provided (s)he exchanges for the shitty-not-yet-available open source cell phone. This will take time, but they will all come back, begging to get iPhones at ANY price.

Anonymous said...

I used to sell Gary Fisher Mountain Bikes. People would come in and say "Diamondback has the same bike for $200 less" and I would say "you must go buy that bike. Hurry!"
You see, Gary Fishers truck and Diamondbacks suck. Cool bikes aren't cheap and cheap bikes aren't cool...in fact, they are boat anchors.

Amber Yount said...

That video was freaking awesome. I was one of the smarty-tards who knew the price would go down. My iPhone only cost me $400 bah ha! :P

Anonymous said...

I think that the longer a history of snark that you accumulate, FSJ, the more posts you will be forced to make with variations on the title, 'I Hate Him But He's Right'. Better assign that one to a function key!

faddah said...

{shrug}

i like a good deal of maher's stuff, but it always strikes me as highly disingenuous that he keeps claiming he is "libertarian" when all the views he espouses are decidedly liberal and at times even green party. and by that, i mean the "420" green party, dood.

he's right here tho'. i called apple and got my $100 apple store credit and applied it to something else i was going to buy there any way and was a happy clam. and yanno what else? you buy anything with an american express card, and the price drops like that within 90 days? you just call uncle amex and they refund the dif back on your card, toute suite, as they say in swaziland, no questions asked.

did uncle faddah buy his iPhone with an amex card? did he get back both the difference in the new price and a $100 apple store gift certificate from big daddy sj? awwwwww yyyyyyeeeeeeeeeaaah. you bet he did.

oceans said...

You came with "pussies" to show us you are a super-kewl undork and then slayed us with "BusinessWeak".

I came away from this waste of bandwidth thinking briefly about what a mindless yawn you are.

Whats the point? That you're cool like Bill Maher? That you're tougher than the other geeks? A real devil-may-care free-wheeler?

Go kill yourself.

Anonymous said...

Fuck you guys!

Anonymous said...

Losers.