Apple's new iPhone came out yesterday. I'm sure it's great, because Apple has a good reputation, and this product offers quite a lot. It combines a phone, a 2 megapixel camera, a touch-screen QWERTY keyboard, an iPod, internet access, and more features into one device.
Unfortunately, you also enter into a two-year marriage with AT&T, who sucks, and the rate plans start at $60 for only 450 minutes--150% of the price of comparable plans with competing carriers. Add this to the $499-$599 price of the iPhone itself.
But that's not stopping jillions of people from having kittens over it.
According to a CBS News story on Thursday's product launch, some people waiting in line were paid up to $300 to simply go buy a phone for someone else. Better yet, one man had been camping out since Monday, to make sure he'd be as disgusting and unshowered as possible when the time came to go in the store and make his purchase. With a social life that includes sidewalk camping for days on end to buy an electronic item, I'm sure his phone and email functions will get lots of use.
Kelsy Martin is a 21-year-old from Wisconsin, where the iPhone's AT&T service is not available. (See, I told you.) "I do want one," she said. "I have nearly every other Apple product that I can get my hands on. IPhone is just all of them put together. Being in Wausau, it is just not possible. All my friends are all quite disappointed."
Boo hoo! I guess that Kelsy will have to find something else to keep her occupied while she drives or sits in class.
4 comments:
Ijust got you ones of those too and you don't like them? Now I have to figure out if there is way to get my kidney and three hundred dollars back in a trade.
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I want one... actually, I kinda want one badly. But since I'm smart enough to not choose Cingular, I'll have to wait until 2009, when the exclusivity contract expires.
Looks like my 'CrackBerry' will have to suffice.
Oh no you didn't just talk smack about the iPhone. We are going to have to Throw. Down. I give you two days to prepare yourself.
No, no... I didn't just talk smack about the iPhone. I talked smack about it about four days ago. Keep up with my blog, how about? You're a shame to the Tripod.
And if you do show yourself here in two days to "throw down", I'll be ready. In fact, I'm ready right now.
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