Give ’till it hurts.
Teetered to the capitalist edge by a barely needed nudge by Matt Rocket, and caught up in the techno future fury of emotion that was the same day pre-game to seeing Transformers: The Movie on IMAX (during which I not only shat myself involuntarily but popped an blood vessel behind my right eye due to acoustic rape), I bought an iPhone a while back.
Apparently as of yesterday I was the only guy on the planet who hadn’t cashed in his rebate. In case I’m wrong and you’ve been living under a rock as well, here’s the link to get yours:
Steve Jobs jacks up the iPhone $200 bucks from his marketing team’s MSRP, gets the early adopter fan boys and girls like me to buy in, soon afterwards drops the price down to the real numbers to zombie the rest of the pre-Christmas hordes into dropping kwon…then offers a rebate in the guise of a sincere apology which most people will either a) forget to use or b) use towards buying something that costs way more than the rebate is for.
And you wonder why I love this fucking guy? GENIUS.
The Internet? Yup. Still magic, babe.