Apple...Can't Say iLike the Taste

Apple Inc. has announced today the release of a 16GB iPhone and 32GB iPod Touch (both priced at $499). Before you get excited over the updated gadgets, let me lift lady tech's skirt because it ain't all pretty.

The two lickable tech bars, iPhone and iPod Touch, use NAND memory. After a class-action law suit was filed against producers of NAND memory for price fixing, we've been seeing huge declines of up to 75% in price for the memory chips. A 4GB chip now costs under $5. This means that Apple Inc. is getting enormous savings for its i-products and passing nothing but a clean poke-in-the-eye to you.

Let's just look at the iPhone's dirty past. It debuted on store shelves in June for $499 as a 4GB model, and $599 as an 8GB model. Three months later, Steve Jobs drops the 4GB model completely and lowers the price to $399 for the 8GB model. The 30% price reduction was rightfully met with outrage. And now Apple Inc. is proud to announce an updated iPhone that is much cheaper for them to produce, but priced $100 more expensive for you. Who's on the winning side? It's becoming extremely clear that the Cupertino team is aimed at pleasing one group...the stockholders...and they're willing to please the stocks at your expense.

I don't have a problem with businesses trying to earn profits. I just hate how they campaign that they are working hard for the customer. It's all lies. Always. Have you ever tried calling customer service to cancel your cellphone contract? The system is set for the business to win...they make all the rules, they hold all the cards, and they take a little off your top at every move.

The second generation iPhone (aka iPhone 2.0, aka iPhone "The New Testament") is speculated to be released before this holiday season. The high demand for 3G is almost guaranteed to be a feature, and I would personally go so far as to speculate that the second iPhone will have at least 80+ Gigs of memory while maintaining a sexy slim figure.

I have endless admiration for Apple Inc. and their products, but their recent business practices have been huge slaps in my consumer face. All this flip-flop management of their iPhone is increasingly aggravating. With warranted forecasts of less than 6 months remaining in a product's lifecycle, Apple's notorious denials of lowering prices and audacity to introduce an even more over-priced gadget just screams foul play.