Boy oh boy, the Haters on Tom's are so blinded by their dislike of Apple they lack common sense.
Do laptop manufacturers only make a single laptop at a fixed price point and with a single screen size? So why not an iPad and an iPad Pro? More expensive version for people who want it. Or an iPad and an iPad Light. I don't see how having different versions of the iPad is ripping customers off.
Geez, get a life already.
No, they don't lack common sense. The price tiering of the different storage size and the 3G radios of their devices makes sense and no body is contesting that. They are not blinded by hate, they are haters because they know that Apple has a track record of releasing products that lack basic hardware or software that other phone makers have included in there phone 5 years ago before theirs. And when they do release a product that has hardware/software that is should of included from the start they advertise it as a revolutionary. I had a iPhone 3G and now a iPhone 3GS, which I couldn't enjoy more. There is no acceptable reason why my iPhone 3G could not record video, it's crap. They release an IOS update, now it can record video, but in a lower resolution than the 3GS. Cydia offered Cycorder, which recorded great video so it's just ridiculous. Now they updated my IOS again, why? Because they are trying to cover their phone reception problems. So instead of having my iPhone 3GS "Searching..." and make my apple device drain battery like any other phone that is searching for signal it's easier to just update my device so it is stuck at 1 bar, but I have no service. I can't call or use data (web email), "Safari cannot open the page because it is not connected to the Internet". If I don't have a real connection, don't say I do! I remember back in the day with older phone, you could have bad coverage and move your phone around to different areas find one bar and know you had "real" service.
ericburnby, the biggest apple haters out there on the web are not android, blackberry, nokia, and Win7 Phone fanboys, they are ex-apple owners that have been burned too many times and have decided enough is enough.
-An on the fence iPhone 3GS user that is eligible for an upgrade.