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iPhone World Premere in SF

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Did you spend $500 this weekend? I considered it… and then I played with the keyboard. And then I made a phone call.

First time holding an iPhone

Without a doubt though, the iPhone is one of the sweetest handheld devices I’ve ever touched, but I’ll pass on the first pass.

iPhone Day


Walking the iPhone line

I got off work at immediately at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and headed to the Apple Store in downtown SF. If you watched the movie above, you can see that the line wrapped three blocks around the whole store. .


Apple employees running with water

With 10 minutes before the iPhone release, a stampede of Apple employees ran down the street handing out water. I thought that was pretty cool. Here is what the scene looked like at the entrance to the Apple store right at 6:00 p.m.:

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And inside:

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The line outside the store was gone by 7:30, and everybody got iPhones. Over at the AT&T store a few blocks away, they did run out of the 4GB model in an hour.

Despite its keyboard inaccuracy, and poor call quality, it’s an amazing product. Safari on wi-fi works well (if you can spell a website correctly), and the Photos application is exquisite. I didn’t really get to check out the iPod because I was in crowded space with no headphones, but I bet that’s real slick. That’s what I really want, a touch-screen iPod that doesn’t make calls.

Overall, Apple made a poor PR move. They announced the iPhone in January and exhausted its media worth since then. If they announced it a few weeks ago, it would have seen better reviews, but consumers will always have high expectations with that amount of hype. If I had an extra $500 laying around, I wo