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Applie chief executive Steve Jobs on Thursday apologised to iPhone buyers for cutting the price tag of the 8-gigabyte model to $399.
This is $200 less than at its debut on June 29. In a letter posted on Apple's website, Jobs also said that Apple plans to give a $100 credit to existing iPhone customers.
"We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers," Jobs said. "We apologise for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple."
In his letter, Jobs said he had received "hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale".
Jobs maintained the decision to cut the price fo the device was the right one, especially as the holiday season approaches. "...Now it will be affordable by even more customers," he wrote.
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