Chuqui and the iPhone.

I can’t count how many times I got asked today, so I’ll say it here.

No, I am not buying an iPhone tomorrow.

It’s not that I don’t like it — I think it’s a world-changing device in a number of ways, and I’ve been waiting for it for a while. It’s that I see no reason to dive into the crowds and hype when what I currently have works fine, and I long ago gave up trying to play on the bleeding edge for Lent.

But trust me, when it’s time to upgrade my phone, my next phone will almost definitely be an iPhone.

And I’m watching all of the usual suspects say all of the usual (in many cases silly or stupid) things on both sides of the hype fence. The sheer anti-hype reaction, to me, tells me this is going to be a huge success, because it seems once again it’s almost becoming trendy to be “anti iPhone” among some of the geek-literati crowds.

Very amusing… Apple doesn’t even have to run arond trying to create hype. It generates the seed kernel, and the rest happens almost by magic. Imagine if Yahoo could do that… (grin)

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  • http://watkinslynn.typepad.com/pages_pucks_and_pantry/ Rene aka Mrs. L

    We are waiting until the end of the year when our current contracts are up. Then I’m told not only will I be getting an iphone, but trading my current PC for a MAC. I am being assimilated.

  • http://evansavenue.wordpress.com Erbo Evans

    Actually, turns out my boss was just making a joke. But it SEEMED so plausible…:-)

  • Erbo

    E-mail in my inbox this morning, from my boss:
    “OK I have I-Phone fever..Today is the day I go see Dr. Apple at the ATT clinic. I Cingular hope he has the cure in stock to end this endless media blitz:)”
    Oy! :-)
    Then again, he loves his MacBook, so I shouldn’t be surprised…
    Me, I’m still carrying my old Nokia 3100 (which still has “AT&T Wireless” stamped on the case…everything old is new again, I guess), and I don’t really give a damn one way or another about the iPhone. Ho hum, just another shiny gadget I can’t afford…

  • Flip

    and of course the gold rule…. NEVER BUY REV 1.