Nor will I be getting one any time soon. I like whizzy gadgets as much as the next guy, but at some point, one must say "Get a life!"
AT&T's Dan Feldstein says 80 percent of the store managers in the Houston area say they've got folks waiting in line for the iPhone.[...]
At the Galleria, another three dozen were in line around 10 a.m., the queue wrapped around the clear plexiglass balustrade across from the Apple Store on the mall's second level. The first to arrive, 24-year-old D.J. Lewis, told Kevin Moran he'd gotten there about 4:30 a.m., and had to wait until 8 a.m. to get into the mall.
Lewis told Moran that, when it comes to gadgetry, he's gotta have it all on Day One.
"Every electronic gadget, I have tried to get it the first day it comes out," Lewis said. "I normally get a new phone about every six months."
The iPhone, he said, "will complete my collection."
I wonder if he's planning on spending $600 for a new iPhone every six months?
Posted by: Buhallin on June 29, 2007 3:59 PM"Every electronic gadget, I have tried to get it the first day it comes out," Lewis said. "I normally get a new phone about every six months."
The iPhone, he said, "will complete my collection."
Personal saving -- DPI less personal outlays -- was a negative $139.8 billion in May, compared
with a negative $121.5 billion in April - as per www.bea.gov (PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS: MAY 2007)
There was a big line out front the ATT store in Waco. Probably a couple dozen people in lawn chairs camped out when I drove by at 10 a.m.
Idiots. I really don't see the point. It has no keyboard and also no voice dialing. How stupid is that? I'm not sure what it will do that my 2 year old Dell Axim PDA and RAZr won't do.
Posted by: Kent from Waco on June 29, 2007 7:53 PMSomehow, I imagine you'll be getting an iPhone just as soon as The Boss gets one and demands that it be seamlessly integrated with the corporate email system.
Me, I'm planning to wait a couple months to see how the thing shakes out, how it gets discounted, how it gets hacked to fix the ten things Apple won't let you do that you really want to do anyway, etc.
Posted by: Dan on June 30, 2007 12:45 AMI agree that it's idiotic, but it DOES have a keyboard - it's electronically displayed on the screen.
The most amazing thing to me is that it does absolutely NOTHING NEW. Every feature on the thing (except the web browsing, and I don't care what Apple's improved, web browsing on a 2"x3" screen sucks) I already have.
It's mind-boggling to me that people will wait in line that long, and spend that much money, to do exactly the same thing tomorrow that they did yesterday.
It's a strange world.