Sold Out already?

Could it be true? Are they all gone? Not really. You can buy them on EBAY for exorbitant prices. I hear one of them is going for $60,000.00. Now who would want to pay that much for the phone that has the 001 serial number on it? And is it the real one? Or is that the one that Steve has in his pocket? Think about it folks, don't you think that he'd be hanging onto that puppy for the museum?

Okay, give it a rest for a bit. The phone...amazing. Do I own one? Not yet. Holding out for round 2. I am happy for Apple and the stellar sales of the phone. It's great to see. Sad to see everyone breaking them apart though. That's a bit childish, and really shows the world how insecure we are about some things. We just have this insatiable need to know, which gets the best of us somehow all the time.

Am wondering if Apple had released the names of those companies involved in this if the need to break open (sometimes with a hammer) this wonderful piece of aesthetically sound artwork which could not be operated by two good looking women on a Morning show. That cracked me up. I had to laugh because I know off camera were some Apple Techs saying "NO, the BUTTON does NOT control the movement of things, It's to get BACK to the HOME screen!" Ladies, it helps to listen when they're showing you the phone. It responds to touch :)

My eyes are now focused on Leopard. Now that the phone is out, lets get back to the business of Apple and the OS. Let's get to pushing Redmond back into the dark ages yet again with a more stable OS that does not require major hardware purchases to work correctly. One that does not bail at a hiccup with a single driver, and does not have a BLUE SCREEN that we still have to see when the OS has no idea how to get back to its version of the FINDER.

Stacks and Spaces and...a new sexy dock...what more can a man ask for? Am not sure since I don't have a list of the 300+ features of this new OS, but I cannot wait to dive into that pool and swim a few laps with my iMac.

Thanks Steve & Team for bringing a great phone to the Market. Congrats on the 500,000+ units sold. Now, let's get back to the OS and making the rest of us Mac-Heads happy :)

Best,

Mike

Did you get yours?

I personally decided to wait a little bit for my iPhone. Nice to let the hoopla die down, and since we're no longer in the Bay Area it was not as exciting to see things going on around the Apple Store at the Biltmore in Phoenix.

Now, had I been in Palo Alto where Steve showed up, I would have bought my phone then and there to say that "I had been there when...".

Some people are loving them, some are not happy and are at least for the next little bit locked into a 2 year commitment with AT&I WISH I HAD A SIGNAL "T".

I will confess that I did go with my wife to the local AT&T Store where they had two of these pinned to the wall with a Police guard. One guy was there who worked for Freescale, a processor manufacturer who was dissecting the features of the phone and the downside of not having GPS built-in. There was a gal on the other phone making calls to all of her friends and looking rather rude at other customers who wanted to try out the new phone.

I watched this in amazement and finally turned to the guy and said "May I". He handed me the phone and the connection was made.

Was I impressed? At the phone, the design, the weight, the fact that the display looks as good in person as it did when Steve unveiled it at MacWorld? At the fact that you could actually type on it and that things functioned as they should? Yes, I was impressed. What did not impress me was the internet access part of it as it was slow. Now we were in an AT&I WISH I HAD A SIGNAL "T" store and they should actually have a wireless network in there to show the strength of things, but theirs was probably searching for a signal to latch onto!

For all of the engineers at Apple who created this wonderous piece of technology...Awesome job!
For Steve and his discerning taste and asthetics...BRAVO

For AT&I WISH I HAD A SIGNAL "T"...GET A LIFE AND FOR GOODNESS SAKES SPEED UP THE NETWORK!!!

Thanks Steve for yet another great slice of the tech pie.

Can't wait for LEOPARD!!!

Mike