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This is my favorite thing I've read re: the iPhone... The iPhone: Unanswered Questions
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OK, I gotta vent. What's wrong w/ the college kids today? No sense of commitment. (Yes, I'm generalizing.)
3 of my coworkers were planning on getting iphones on Friday. Rather than pay ebay prices, we were willing to pay 3 guys $10/hr to stand in line. At 4 PM, we'd come back and take the spot to buy our iphones. One group of college guys said yes on Monday and backed out yesterday. Then I scrambled and some neighborhood kids back from school said yes on Wed. I called this morning and he says "Uh, I forgot I have to get my wisdom teeth out on Friday. So I can't go in the morning but maybe after." "So that means you can't even stand in line at all." "Uh, oh yeah, right".
GRRR!! So then I check craigslist and even put up an ad. People are bidding themselves out for crazy prices. One woman responded to me and said it's $300. I said no thanks.
I'll go online at 6 PM (not clear if it's EST or PST) and go that route. I can wait a week for it to ship from China.
That's capitalism for ya.
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Quote:
we were willing to pay 3 guys $10/hr to stand in line.
Oh, remember those heady days when we used to either laugh at or weep for the Russians standing in line for bread and milk? Now North Americans queue up for every little gadget they're told to.
Bren R.
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Say what you will, but today was very cool for me.
I was in the Palo Alto Store today. Line was about 400 people at 5 PM. Apple employees cheered us on as we went in. Steve Jobs even showed up.
I was out the door by about 6:30 w/ 4 in hand. No not for ebay, for personal/work use. We went by about an hour later. No lines, but you could still buy iPhones. The current Apple tracker shows all California stores having phones. No need to go ebay, just head out to the Apple store, if you can.
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I was out the door by about 6:30 w/ 4 in hand. No not for ebay, for personal/work use.
Yeah, sure they are all for personal/work use and some aren't for eBay... There are about 7,500 iPhones on eBay right now going for a couple hundred dollars more than the MSRP, and you aren't selling one? Come on, we are all family here, you can be honest... 
(Actually, you can do what you want, but someone dropping that much cash for FOUR iPhones seems a little crazy, then again, I think that all of us are a little crazy in one way or another. LOL)
Enjoy your iPhones. I am not wanting one, but it is like the PS3 and Wii thing. Some people just "HAVE" to have them day 1, and if you have the time, and money, to buy something that you really want, then good for you... I guess... If you have the time and money to buy 4, then by all means, sell some to the crazy fools on eBay... 
Farewell - June 4, 2020
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Didn't Apple set a 2 phone maximum?
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Maybe he bought two as phones and two as music players.
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Given how many it sounded like they had (my Dad got in line at 7:30 PM, got a phone by 9 PM), I don't think the eBayers are going to have all that much luck...
I am the Doctor, and THIS... is my SPOON!
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Nope, no ebay, no craiglist. Wouldn't make sense anyway, you can still walk in the store now and buy it.
Believe it or not, it was for work.
I bought 4 because I have a vested interest in the success of this product. I knew of this well before Macworld...
So far, it's a good product. I'm a blackberry/treo user w/ corporate access. Today, it's not corporate ready. Hopefully soon w/ some server updates. It has a high cool factor, w/ in 5 min of leaving the store, 3 groups stopped me, including a cameraman for some network.
I'd give it a 'B' overall. The widgets are very nice and easy. It does take a few strokes to make a call. But a Blackberry it is not. Still trying to figure out how to get my Entourage calendar on it. I'm sure someone will have their primer posted by Monday... Fit and finish is typical Apple, it's gorgeous.
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