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[beatniknight]

My co-worker, who shares a pod (it's like a bigger cubicle) with me, is currently crying (and I mean that literally.  Tears are streaming down her face) because she doesn't think she's going to get an iPhone.  She had thought that she would be able to get one if she left here to get on line at 5:00 (ha!) because "well, they're not selling them

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[mike8787]

It makes me sad that people like her make enough money to buy an iPhone. But if anyone deserves to waste their money so callously, it is someone acting like she is.

[beatniknight]

I don't think she does make enough to buy one. Her parents pay for everything still and she's like 25.

[journey_to_189]

I wanted to play with it all night.

Yeah, definitely something Paris Hilton would say! (I loved it when Sarah Silverman ribbed her: "To make her more comfortable in prison, they're painting the bars to look like penises. Poor girl, I hope she doesn't break her teeth on them.")

You should have smacked her across the head with a heavy object and told her that THERE WILL BE MORE IPHONES. The factory in China is running 24x7, I'm sure, to keep her privileged ass connected in style.

[beatniknight]

Even if they weren't, the first people to buy them are going to be the ones who pay the most and get the buggiest products. That's just the way new technology works. It's going to have problems with it that will not get fixed for a month at the least.

[journey_to_189]

I know exactly what you mean. I had one of the early Macbooks with the random shutdown problem. Three repairs and one replacement machine later, I'm fine.

I would think the risk of problems with the iPhone is fairly minimal, considering the amount of close worldwide attention being paid to Apple over it.

And the market responds in its typical style toward Apple: initial sales likely beat all analyst expectations, even doubling some of them, and the stock price goes down 78 cents.

[tony_m]

Wow! I can't believe how pathetic people can be.

If by some miracle she hasn't gotten her whiny hands on one by Monday, tell her Apple ran out of them from here to Bangkok and doesn't expect to deliver more for at least six months. Then tell her your roommate/boyfriend/whatever has one and go on and on about how awesomely shiny it is.

[beatniknight]

She already knows I think they're stupid. I mean, they're not stupid, I'd totally use one if it didn't only work with AT&T and cost $600.