iDontThinkSo
Posted By Kathleen David on June 30, 2007
The iPhone was released yesterday with much ballyhoo and news reporting. There were lines and reporters interviewing the people in the lines about why they were in line. It is a nifty gadget. I thought that the iPod was a nifty gadget too. We do have one in the house but it belongs to Ariel. I may in the future get one for myself or maybe the iPhone but not today or anytime this summer or even this year. The hype surrounding this swiss-army knife of electronic devices is just amazing to me. And I am an Apple computer user from way back. I have extreme loyalty to that brand of computer.
This morning I perused E-Bay to see what the phones that people snatched up to sell on e-bay are going for. Right now about twice the price seems to be the norm if that. But if you order from Apple.com online they say you will have it in 2 to 4 weeks. Which is not a lot of time but in our “have it now or you are a loser” society, it seems an eternity. It is like the PS3 and the Wii. People waited in line for days to buy one to put it up on E-bay and sell it for a profit. Some people thought that they could fund their kid’s education on the money they could see from the sale. Now you can get both for under retail on e-bay still sealed in the box. Also these models don’t have the bugs that the first versions have which included bursting into flames because the power supply was faulty. Waiting on new electronic devices is not a bad thing.
I am grateful for the electronic devices I have which have the same functions at the iPhone.
Right on! I agree with everything you said about this ‘must have’ mentality. You echoed my thoughts, only you said it better than I could.
I cannot imagine any gadget that would make me sleep in line for it. I get far more pleasure from my Atari 2600 – for which we have more than 50 games – than the stupid XBox 3 (bought 2nd hand for less than half price), and I don’t need a degree or a Trust Fund to play it.
Well, with word that the iPhone is exclusive to AT&T for the next 5 years, I don’t have to worry about ever bothering to get one.
Beyond that, the hype is a bit ridiculous (only 8gig space for the more expensive version?), but I would certainly wait for a 2nd or 3rd generation version, if I were wanting to get one.