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It’s a big week this week! Break out the mortgage!

Short and sweet this week:

Wil Shipley has an excellent post on Apple and it’s recent anti-consumer business decisions. I hope they read it. (thanks to dfbills for the tip)

dfbills.com posted a tutorial for how to get an image and html/css into your iPhone signature.  It worked perfectly me for me the first try. Brilliant!

It’s a long list this week. I’m picking up the Beyond Barrows mini-series in preparation for the upcoming 30 Days of Night movie. The Captain America Trade Paperback looks like a great run with Ed Brubaker so I’m going to check that out. I picked up The Umbrella Academy on free comic book day, and I guess it worked, because I’m going to check out their new mini-series.

I’m going to keep updating this post with links for the different iPhone app management sites’ links to comixology.com’s iPhone interface.

addfone.com

touchtip.com

iPhone Application List

Comixology.com has released a stable beta version of their great comic book release schedule and pull list creator for the iPhone (comixology.com/iphone). Now you can pull up your pull list while you’re at the store. You’ll never forget which comics you wanted to buy again!

I’m checking in with Daredevil this week for nostalgia’s sake. Some of my favorite comics are DD, especially the Daredevil graphic novel with art by Bill Sienkiewicz, one of the great comic artists of our time. I’m also checking out the Trade Paperback of Nightly News by Jonathan Hickman, because of the rave reviews it got. Yes, I know I have two of the same Daredevil comic below. That variant cover looks awesome, but the wrap-around cover would be cool, too.

Late addition: Batman Confidential. I love Heroes and didn’t realize Michael Green was writing a story.

I’m one of the “early adopters” stung by Apple’s price drop on the iPhone, which adds up to $400 in my family. Apple’s $100 store credit gesture is nice, but necessary only because the early adopters of the iPhone are mostly Mac owners.

Apple is competing in a new category and needs to compete in a new way, while its core early customers for the iPhone are Mac users that expect Apple to act like Apple Computer, Inc. rather than as a cell phone producer. If Apple behaved like Apple Computer, Inc., it would keep the prices fairly static, shipping new models with new capabilities to keep the prices in place. At the least, it wouldn’t drop prices by a third within the first year or so.

The Motorola RAZR is a great example of how the cell phone marketplace works differently than the computer marketplace. According to the NY Times, the RAZR was released at $499 (yes the same price as the original 4GB iPhone) and was $199 six months later (about 60% less). Within 12 months it was $99. That’s a perfect illustration of how pricing works in the cell phone world. Don’t expect to see iPhones for $99 anytime soon, but don’t expect Apple to give a gift certificate every time they drop the price, either. That’s a one-time gift to us early adopters.

Personally, I’ve gotten at least $100 of value from my iPhone in the last two months. So, I’m good.

Books are out today, due to the holiday. The Fables trade paperback is not new, just an addition to my library. As always, these descriptions and cover shots are courtesy comixology.com.