That loss will no doubt hurt, but it’s not at all surprising that Apple refused to increase the price of the TV episodes. Three of the top 10 TV shows on iTunes came from NBC, accounting for 30 percent of iTunes TV show sales. That would have had the effect of increasing the per-episode price of NBC TV shows from $1.99 to $4.99. According to Apple, NBC Universal decided not to renew its agreement with Apple after Apple declined to pay NBC more than double the wholesale price per episode. Adam EngstĪpple has announced that the iTunes Store will not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming season. We strongly believe the $399 price will help us do just that this holiday season.”ĭetails of the rebate will be posted this week according to the letter’s wording, it appears the rebate will apply to purchasers of both the 8 GB and 4 GB models, but we’ll have to wait and see for specifics. It benefits both Apple and every iPhone user to get as many new customers as possible in the iPhone ‘tent’. iPhone is so far ahead of the competition, and now it will be affordable by even more customers. He wrote, “iPhone is a breakthrough product, and we have the chance to ‘go for it’ this holiday season. In his letter, Jobs defended the decision to cut the iPhone’s price from $599 to $399 (for the 8 GB model the 4 GB model has been discontinued).
Granted, store credit isn’t the same as $100 in cold cash, but it certainly makes an iPhone Bluetooth Headset ($129) or other accessory more appealing. Although details are still being worked out, Apple plans to offer “every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store.” Glenn FleishmanĪpple CEO Steve Jobs posted an open letter to the company’s Web site last week acknowledging the dissatisfaction over the iPhone price drop shared by the hundreds of thousands of people who previously purchased iPhones.
Mac slowdowns in Europe Ambrosia Software releases iToner for adding ringtones to the iPhone Palm kills its Foleo “smartphone companion” just as it was about to be released and we note the releases of iPhoto 7.0.2, MarsEdit 2.0, the TidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary for TextExpander and TypeIt4Me, and a pair of ebooks about the iPhone from Take Control. Also in this issue, Apple and NBC get into a spat that results in Apple removing NBC television shows from iTunes Apple checks into. But we’re most excited about the new redesign of Adam walks through the improved Web site and some of our reasons for doing it.
In Apple news, CEO Steve Jobs introduced revamped iPods, including the new iPod touch, and dropped the price of the iPhone by $200 (and then offered $100 in store credit to the nearly 1 million customers who bought the iPhone at full price prior to last week’s announcement). #1622: OS feature survey results, Continuity Camera webcam preview, OWC miniStack STXĮverything is new this issue, or at least that’s the way it feels.
The pop command works, but I also get this output: -bash: 2D: command not found
When I type the command popd in Terminal, as soon as I press Return, the following is added to the end of my command: