Western Digital 250GB Passport Hard Drive

For the college student who needs a ton of space, Western Digital introduces a new edition of their popular Passport portable hard drives with a capacity of 250GB. Now there's more room for your music, movies, photos, and if there's room...homework.

..."With WD’s Passport students will be able to take their photos, videos, files and music with them, anywhere on campus and students can also rest assured their photos, videos, files and music will be safely stored with WD’s Sync™ synchronization and encryption software. Simply plug the WD Passport into any PC, edit files, read e-mail, and view photos. Then sync all of your changes back to your home or office computer. Your data is protected with 128-bit encryption."

The drive works on both Mac and PC with a simple plug and play interface and will run you about $160. For more information, click the Amazon link at the bottom right side of the page.

Consumers Take a Bite Out of Apple

Big, imposing Steve Jobs finally listened to his fans and wrote an open letter to early iPhone adopters. Basically, it says that they still stand by their decision to lower the price of the 8GB iPhone to $399 in order to make more money, but the people who waited on line for hours to get their iPhones first are not out of luck as originally thought. See below:

"...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..."

Go to Apple.com to read the whole letter.

iPhone Price Drop = Pissed Early Adopters

As someone who stood in line for 8+ hours on June 29th, I am PISSED OFF that Apple decided to drop the price of the 8GB by $200 and in turn, phase out the 4GB. I can buy a 4GB iPhone now for $200 less than what I paid for it when I first got it. I know that technology changes and prices drop, but this fast?

This price decrease shows that Apple made a HUGE mistake when they first released the iPhone. They basically said, "we didn't sell enough at first, so let's drop the price and make up what we lost." Then, Jobs goes on to say that all early adopters and die hard Apple fans are SOL because, "that's technology."

I urge everyone who purchased an iPhone to FLOOD the Apple discussion forums, mail angry letters, call customer service people and push Apple into compensating each person who waited passionately in line for their "wonder phone". Had we known that they were going to do this, we wouldn't have bought the devices upon release.

Shame on Apple for fooling the public, and shame on them for turning their backs on the people who've helped them get where they are today!