Steve Jobs For President

By now, most technology intellects and even tech meddlers know about the recent iPhone price reduction that caused a major brouhaha with Apple loyalists and lovers. Even if you are not a techno geek, or part of tech intelligentsia, or even tech aware – maybe you’re a technophobe – you still know about the Apple price reposition on the iPhone, if you are up on your news and current events.

Apple haters are calling it a gaffe. I don’t think it was a blunder or a mistake or anything Steve Jobs should have apologized for, but the bloody media love to beat up on underdogs like Jobs and Apple and kiss the feet of monolithic monopolies such as Microsoft and its Der Kommissar, Bill Gates.

Still, it made me think about the chain reaction Jobs set off when the company announced the drop in price of the iPhone by $200 just two months after it went on sale.

He and Apple were plastered with hundreds – maybe thousands – of emails from iPhone customers who were upset that they paid the Early Adopter price for an iPhone. I would have told the whiney babies to shut up. That’s what they get for not being able to delay gratification. They think they have run out, as if they were Paris Hilton and got their cha-ching from a family trust fund, and get every trinket and toy that comes along. Only, they don’t get their benjamins from sugar daddies or even off trees, so they’re whining.

It's simple. If you want to run with the big dogs and be an Early Adopter, that's okay. Just don't whine for paying the premium associated with being an Early Adopter. People with common sense can understand this concept. So should techno savvy people who feel the need to impress, pretend to be in the Hilton family, or need to be Early Adopters to keep or get friends.

Still, you must give Jobs a tip of the hat for his public apology (click here to read Jobs’ apology) and efforts to appease those whiney babies with a $100 store credit (I should get a $100 store credit. After pulling out every sales ticket from every Apple purchase I’ve made since 1984, I have spent WELL over $10,000 with Apple).

There are so many high profile people who are in leadership positions and capable of setting examples for how we're supposed to act that really should show humility as Jobs has done and apologize but are too stubborn to. One immediately comes to mind.

His name is George W. Bush.