as i’m sure we’re all well aware of, the apple iphone was launched last weekend and had a very successful first weekend. in fact, according to a nytimes article yesterday apple and at&t stores sold well over half a million (525,000) iphones through sunday with half of the apple stores on the west coast selling out on the first day!
all of those people who claimed weeks and months prior to the release that the iphone was going to miserably fail, i bet they are eating their words and looking like idiots now (well, they probably did before). now they are the same people trying to find the stupidest, most miniscule issue they have with it, such as the people that had issues with activation. they failed to mentioned that a mere 2-3% of people were unable to activate their iphones immediately. but hell, when you have over half a million people hitting your servers across two days with credit checks and activations, there are going to be server issues!
the iphone is amazing, but this is probably the only thing that sucks about it:
it has absolutely brought out the worst in people, which is pretty pathetic and disgusting. many of those people who stood in line last friday bought two iphones and then quickly jumped on ebay to sell them for outrageous prices (recall the same thing happened with recent gaming consoles). ebay has suddenly become modern day’s “get rich quick” scheme. it’s funny though because it appears apple planned for something like this and the huge demand for the iphone that most stores were overstocked so they wouldn’t run out. these ebayers’ auctions are thankfully failing since the stock and availability is so high.
anyway, if anyone is willing to pay that much for a damn device, then they deserver to get ripped off. disturbing nevertheless.