aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Saturday, June 30, 2007

The most hyped gadget in tech history

PC World did an iPhone stress test which included putting one in a shake ‘n bake with a bag full of key chains.

TUAW gushes, “Words cannot describe how incredibly wonderful this thing feels to touch and hold. It is an absolute marvel of engineering. Gorgeous in every way.”

The NYTimes reports, “Apple wanted a spectacle when the iPhone went on sale, and it got just that.”

The DC mayor got his, “a guy behind me yells out ‘fix the schools first,’ the guy gives him the finger and sneers, ‘there’s only 15 left.’… a lot of people in the back of the line probably aren’t getting an iPhone today.”

The Apple iPhone availability page seems to say otherwise. I didn’t find a single red light. No supply woes.

On the other hand, there have been activation woes. Here’s some how-to instructions.

Thomas Hawk - over a glass of wine and with the iPhone still in the box 4 hours after he bought it - reflects on his time as an iPhone line geek. Stephen Berlin Johnson’s got one too, “Tried to be clever and buy at the downtown Brooklyn AT&T store, which was a nightmare and limited me to only one phone.”

Poor guy.

Dan Moren’s was DOA, all attempts to revive the iPhone following Apple’s somewhat limited troubleshooting methodology...have failed.”

Here Meredith Viera fumbles with it on the Today Show.

I’ll have news of the contrarians when I’m back from Tekserve where I’m off with a friend to buy, of all things, a MacBookPro.