+ I’m going to be filing some NFL Reports every week over at the Burnside Writers Blog. My plan is to provide an informed/comical/unorthodox look at each upcoming week of the pro football season. (Hopefully editor Jordan Green is ok with this since i never ran it by him). The Week 1 post will go up on Friday, but today i posted a pre-season report looking ahead to the 2007 season. There you can read about my fantasy team names (all 4 of them) and about my weekly bet with Erica. I’m calling the weekly feature “The Schnoz Report”, and here’s the graphic:
+ if you’re not interested enough to check out my predictions for the year, I’m taking the Patriots over the Saints in the Super Bowl. A boring selection, i know, but it’s what i landed on. I also like the Eagles, Rams, Bears, Cowboys, and Falcons to make the playoffs in the NFC and the Chargers, Colts, Steelers, Ravens, and Bengals to make it in the AFC.
+ Did you hear that Apple is giving $100 store credit back to early adopters who paid $599 for their 8GB iPhone before this week’s $200 price drop? It’s a good move by Steve Jobs, and one that i was thinking he should do about 24 hours before he announced it. Had i blogged about it, i would have looked smart, since i was thinking the exact same thing: $100 store credit. It’s a smart move because most of those folks will use that credit to buy something worth more than $100 and end up putting more money into Apple’s pockets. I’m guessing Steve planned this all along, and i think it’s brilliant that he didnt announce it yesterday. If he had, it would have come across as “nice, but still sucky that i paid way more for my iPhone”. But letting customers stew for 24 hours and then announcing the $100 credit? now it comes across as “Steve Jobs is giving me $100 back just when i started getting used to the fact that i paid more for my iPhone…this is awesome!” I bet Seth Godin would agree that the timing was perfect on this one.
Posted by Bryan Allain
Yeah it’s amazing how happy people are about the $100 dollar gift card. Because, honestly, there’s still an extra $100 dollars that they lost, and, like you said, they’ll end up spending more than the $100 that apple’s giving… so really, the customers are still losing somewhere around $150 dollars… That’s a real bummer to me, but it’s better than a whole $200.
AND the new iPods are really cool. Except for those colors… what’s up with that?
1. I wish the BWB had per-author feeds so I could get only your stuff.
2. I love the name. LOVE IT.
3. You picked the Bengals to do well again. Are you seriously trying to end our friendship!?
Pats over Saints was my pick this year as well…