Yep, its time for a post. I'm gonna talk about those idiots waiting in line for the iPhone.
"Idiots you say?! How could anyone doubt the ferocious power of the lowercase i! How can you not want to buy one?!" I hear the applefans scream. Well, let me tell you.
The iPhone is nothing new. Its 2 year old technology with an annoying touch screen interface, a shiny box, and a lower case i. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of my iPod. Love the thing to death.
But it took them 5 generations to get it right. The current gen video iPod is a thing of beauty, but it didn't start that way. Way back in the day, iPods were glitchy, with awful battery life and little memory, and they were shaped like attractive plastic and chrome bricks. These days they are purtyful slim art objects, with 80 gigs of memory and video support, but the first gen product wasn't nice.
So, on to my point. The iPhone is only purchasable with a 49.99 dollar per month contract with Cingular (I refuse to call them AT and T, that was a shameless attempt to escape their reputation), a famously crappy phone company. The contract is 2 years, and I'm gonna take a guess that it is non voidable. The phone itself is 600 dollars, because Apple didn't allow them to give a discount with contract signing.
So, lets do the math folks. 600 + 50 * 24.. Thats 1800 dollars, before applicable fees and taxes. Woo! That iPhone is costing you a cool 2000 bucks! Hope you enjoy it for the 4 months before someone else rolls something better with Verizon or some REASONABLE phone company.
Now, listen. There are some things I just cant understand. What can the iPhone do that a two year old Smartphone can't? I cant understand the appeal. Is it the touchscreen? The advertising campaign? The Apple name? The ever potent lowercase i?
The world may never know.
And I could be wrong! The iPhone could revolutionize telecommunications, just like its big brother did with mobility in music and media.
But from where I sit, it just looks like a pretty phone. If I'm wrong, do tell. Leave me a comment.
That is, if anyone has even read this. Heh. Blogging. On the Internets.
Yeehaw! Grab the camp chairs and beer coolers, its time to go camp for forty hours to get an overpriced piece of rehashed technology.
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