I work at an office where some employees actually took a vacation day to stand in line at the Apple store (and write about it!). The rest of us sat back and ruminated over changing his Local Guide name to “the pathetic geek’s chronicle”, but alas, we’ll ohh and ahh come Monday when he comes in bleary-eyed with a mile-wide smirk.
My own plans? Well three problems prevent me from indulging. One, touch screen typing - it’s been highlighted all over the web, and, for me, it prevents it from being my mainstream device. Two, the network tethering to Cingular doesn’t work. I’ve tried all the networks and - for my needs and location - Verizon is the clear choice for voice quality and high speed coverage. Three, version one buyers of apple are a foolhardy lot with perpetually bruised foreheads. Will they never learn not to buy v1.0 of anything from Steve Jobs? geesh.
I do know, that when it achieves a legitimate replacement for my ipod, I will be ALL over it. but it needs to step up with a 40+GB hard drive and great battery life to play that (important) role in my life. Probably 2008, but not now.
It’s yet another breakthrough from Apple, and it will stake out a major slice of deserved attention for pushing the ticket on open air entertainment devices…
