Ouch!

Still very early in the day here and The Herald’s online poll for the day continues the negative press about the iPhone (oh the humanity).
How’s this for a negative endorsement of your product’s price.
That’s right 3% people think it’s a good product at this price – hmmm?

More negative media attention

This is right out of Marketing 101 don’t do’s.
Do not piss off the public so much that the only media attention leading up to the launch of a new cool tool is negative press.
That’s all it’s been all day, while Vodafone continue to put the positive spin on it. I still can’t remember the [...]

Online petition re Vodafone pricing

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/nzmac/petition.html
The only problem is that they seem to be concerned that the iPhone isn’t available as pre-pay. The pricing across the board is too much and that should have been addressed. If the iPhone was available pre-pay, one would assume that it would be full priced, and that data rates would be rather [...]

Account?

There is a suggestion that the iPhone will only be on account here in New Zealand.
First I was disappointed in that, but with the pricing that the phone will come in at $199NZD on a two year term, this isn’t going to be a bad thing.
Let’s just hope they are generous with the data packages, [...]

Price announced – Brilliant – where’s the plan

Just in my inBox there’s the announcement from Vodafone that the iPhone will be $199NZD on a 2 year contract. That is stunning and I can live with that, the only problem is what is the contract and how much will it be? That’s not yet been announced.
So $199NZD that’s $159USD – Stunning, [...]

Well at least we know where to get them

Vodafone has placed a Google Map of where you can buy the new iPhone.

It’s a start, but what a terrible situation for the consumer to be in. The iPhone is being launched this friday and there is no indication weather there will be the ridicilous pricing that has caused such a stir in other [...]