People who bought the iPhone have already bought into the notion that paying a premium you into a tier of exclusively higher quality experience. Paying for co

People who bought the iPhone have already bought into the notion that paying a premium you into a tier of exclusively higher quality experience. Paying for content once you have the iPhone is just an extension of, and in fact, a way of reconfirming and validating the decision to pay all that money for the iPhone to begin with. It will be interesting to see if as time goes by the quality of iPhone apps decreases and tarnishes the expectations of quality or not. For now i think the gloss of quality from the iPhone carries over into an expectation about the apps themselves, so people are not nearly as wary of iPhone apps as say, I am about all the random shareware floating around in the PC market in the same price range.