Beyond Maps, The 10 Biggest Mistakes From Apple


#6 Original iPhone price cut – 2007

On June 2007 first iPhone is released, it was priced at $600 for the 8GB version, and sold like a hot cake. Later Apple abruptly dropped the price of phone by $200, which sent shock waves across all who bought it before the tempting offer. Jobs took it up to clear the muck, he acknowledged the mistake, saying “our early customers trusted us, and we like to live up to it.” Early buyers were given $100 of credit for the Apple Store; and Jobs defended the fact that it was not fully $200 by saying “this is life in the technology lane”

Whatever the controversies, the Phones first Christmas scaled high.

#5 iMovie HD replaced by iMovie -- 2007

iMovie was Apple’s free cut-it-yourself movie editing software, and is updated to version 6, which meant HD. It offered a lot of tools; a timeline to drag clips into, effects, separate sound volume controls, and overall a simple import. The fairy tale ends here, for the next update was iMovie 8—a complete user baffling features, it was like descent from simple comfort to complex unrest. Apple gave in to protest of users, and offered iMovie HD as separate download option, which yet had that wild rave about it.