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Well, today is the day the iPhone goes on sale.\u00a0 The 2nd generation sleek phone from Apple looks to be quite a bit nicer than the first, starting with improved Internet performance, and considerably better 3G battery lifetime than on any other telephone yet produced, and an open application interface for more applications.\u00a0 Combined with a great user interface, a friendliness toward the enterprise, and a nice feature set, it will probably make a really good PDA.<\/p>\n
If you want to be the first on your block with one of these gadgets, you’re going to have to get up early and wait in a long line.\u00a0 Otherwise, stores will run out.\u00a0 In some cases, stores have been allocated less than 20 phones.\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 It’s not that this device is a surprise, or anything.\u00a0 And surely Apple could manufacture enough so that people needn’t have to bother with all of that hassle.<\/p>\n
But for those few who buy hook line and sinker into the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field, it’s a ritual, and they love it.\u00a0 Surely Steve Jobs wouldn’t want to deprive his followers of that \u201cJoy\u201d.\u00a0 The Believers get to brag to the rest of us for a few days or weeks about their new gadget, and how everyone is going to copy them.\u00a0 They are the trend setters for the day.\u00a0 Of course they spent that day waiting in line.\u00a0 They’ll spend the next few days figuring out all of the little bugs that Apple has assuredly left lying around.\u00a0 And then they’ll realize, \u201cOh dear.\u00a0 GPS doesn’t work in my home,\u201d as if they didn’t know where home was.\u00a0 And they’ll read their mail at the restaurant, and even off of their new toys right next to their old Apple monitors that are connected to a recent Apple of some variety.<\/p>\n
What’s more, this phone isn’t really cheaper than the previous version.\u00a0 According to the Wall Street Journal, AT&T in particular has jacked up rates in order to recoup their costs (and, they hope, more).<\/p>\n
Still the iPhone is an important innovation, if for no other reason that they have brought to the cellphone market a refreshing jolt of competition that seemed absent.\u00a0 Sure, LG was interesting, but aside from a few geeks, the rest of us bought Sony Ericsson and Nokia phones, both of which have had the same capabilities for what seem like eons.<\/p>\n
So it’s iPhone Day.\u00a0 Perhaps celebrate by watching your Believer friends suffer.\u00a0 Don’t worry, Google Believers: you’re next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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