June 2008
4 posts
Focusing on Price and Missing the Point
In a piece of mediocre commentary (hat tip: John Gruber), Michael Rosenwald of the Washington Post attempts to put the low low purchase price of the upcoming iPhone 3G into perspective.
He works hard to explain how and why $200 seems so shockingly cheap compared to the previous $400 and original $600 price tags. (Behavioral economists apparently say that it is because $200 is, in fact, much...
Apple, iPhone 3G, and Honesty in Marketing
As you no-doubt have heard, there’s a newer, faster, cheaper iPhone on the way. Not just “faster” and “cheaper”, in fact, but says Apple: “Twice as fast. Half the price.”
This, friends, is a big fat lie — it may well be twice as fast, but the iPhone 3G is not half the price of the original iPhone. This is not a point I intend to argue — it is not...
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Was Indiana Jones really worth it?
The Economics of Environmentalism - Links
Much as we might like to think that environmental awareness should be enough to make people change their habits, the real driver of change is economics.
Making a point that I’m sure had been made many times before and has been made many times since, Wired claimed back at the end of 2005 that high gas prices were good for America because they pushed more research money (and interest) toward...