Do I feel like a sucker? No. I thought it was worth $599 (still think it is), so I paid $599. Is it a large, unexpected price drop? Yes.
The $100 is gravy, I didn't need it, I was happy before. I bought a phone, and liked it.
I could do without everyone who sees it asking "Do you feel like a sucker?" I'm actually happy, as the lower price point means way larger adoption now, which means the crappy, limited, mobile web (via crappy fat clients for specific devices and terrible WAP/Whatever pages) is that much more likely to dry up and blow away before I have to deal with it.
Apple's competitors, all those ones discounting the iPhone because, "yah, it's neat, but who's gonna buy a $600 phone." Those are the real suckers.
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