See also the price drop for the iPhone back in 2007 (33% drop 10 weeks after release [1]). Resulted in an open letter and apology from the CEO [2].
[1] http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/the-iphone-price-d...
[1] http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/the-iphone-price-d...
For actual shipped products things are much more difficult, if you price high and people buy but not enough people buy and you then lower the price "too soon", the early adopters will feel understandably pissed. See: Nintendo 3DS.