Early iPhone adopters you day of retribution has finally arrived. Apple opened up it’s $100 store credit page today. In three easy steps and about 5 minutes of your time, you can have your store credit to go spend at the Apple store. Head ob over to the store credit page on Apple.com and get your hundred bucks!

This letter was posted today here: Link

Cudos to you Mr. Jobs - Thank you!

To all iPhone customers:

I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.

First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to lower the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399, and that now is the right time to do it. iPhone is a breakthrough product, and we have the chance to ‘go for it’ this holiday season. iPhone is so far ahead of the competition, and now it will be affordable by even more customers. It benefits both Apple and every iPhone user to get as many new customers as possible in the iPhone ‘tent’. We strongly believe the $399 price will help us do just that this holiday season.

Second, being in technology for 30+ years I can attest to the fact that thetechnology road is bumpy. There is always change and improvement, and there is always someone who bought a product before a particular cutoff date and misses the new price or the new operating system or the new whatever. This is life in the technology lane. If you always wait for the next price cut or to buy the new improved model, you’ll never buy any technology product because there is always something better and less expensive on the horizon. The good news is that if you buy products from companies that support them well, like Apple tries to do, you will receive years of useful and satisfying service from them even as newer models are introduced.

Third, even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of iPhone, and even though the technology road is bumpy, we need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price. Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these.

Therefore, we have decided 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. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple’s website next week. Stay tuned.

We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers. We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple.

Steve Jobs
Apple CEO

I gotta hand it to him here. This is just about the coolest letter I have ever seen from a CEO. Big props to Mr. Jobs for this! I don’t even own an iPhone and I’m impressed.

I submit that you can and that the latter is way more important than the former. Or at least that’s what the folks over at Apple must be thinking. Imagine this: Somewhere in the last 66 days, in the midst of an Apple board meeting, suddenly bursts an unshaven, sleep-deprived tech dude, screeching to a halt from his recent sprint. Breathing heavy, he shouts aloud, “I made a touch-faced iPod with WiFi and I redesigned the classic iPods again. This time I crammed a HUGE hard drive in there!” The room is filled with massive jubilation and glee. Then in the mix of all the unbridled excitement some “semi-jealous for not thinking of the idea” executive, intoxicated by the sudden burst of amusement, must have said, “Hey! I have an idea! Let’s knock 200 bucks off the price of the iPhone, that will be super fun!” Then, yet another emotionally charged executive jumps on the phone and says, “Run Steve! Run! Off to the September keynote with you… Run like the wind!” And off he skips in glee… [Continued]

Most of you probably already know, but I just had to blog about it in case there was someone out there who didn’t know yet. From what I gather, iPhoneSimFree.com has unlocked the iPhone which makes it potentially available to all carriers so those of us not wanting to pay the crazy disconnect fees with our current carriers and switch to AT&T, we have finally have an out. I first read about it on Engadget and then this article on PC world. I call that double confirmation (as if the video on Engadget wasn’t enough).

I am so freaking excited! C’mon boys, release the software already!

All you iPhoners out there, there’s an update for your phone out today. Just a reminder though, be sure to backup your pics before you update or you might lose ‘em in the process. iTunes doesn’t back up your pics so be sure to pull them off or upload them to flickr before you rock the update.