iPhone Fever Hits America
Tomorrow
is iDay - the day that the American public finally
get the chance to get their hands on the new
wonder-gadget from Apple - the iPhone.
Here are a few predictions for what will happen over the course of the next couple of days or so.
Highly Likely
Highly Improbable
In the meantime, from the essential "Secret Diary of Steve Jobs":
"Woman trades her child for spot at front of iPhone line"
and from iPhone Matters
"Dinner in Cupertino, June 28th, 2007"
And last but not least, David Pogue's review of the iPhone for the New York Times:
Here are a few predictions for what will happen over the course of the next couple of days or so.
Highly Likely
- AT&T's network grinds to a halt as thousands of new iPhone owners try to access their Web 2.0 resources on AT&T's decidedly un-Web 2.0 EDGE network.
- The first loss of an iPhone to a mugger will happen within an hour of the first one being sold.
- Some socially-retarded geek will record in his blog: "Jeez, man. I got this iPhone, like, three hours ago, and I still haven't gotten laid."
- Paris Hilton's name will be ignored by the main networks for at least an hour.
- Authors of "What's Hot/What's Not" lists in newspapers and magazines will trip over themselves to declare the iPhone "soooo last Tuesday."
- All stock will sell out within the first hour, meaning that several people who were camped outside their local Apple Store for days will be turned away empty-handed.
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will lock himself in his study with his Zune, and pretend to ignore everything to do with the iPhone.
- On Saturday morning, Bono will walk in to his local newsagent in Dalkey, yakking into an iPhone, the only one in Ireland.
- After gaining massively, based on several months of iPhone hype and supposition, Apple's share price will fall once the mythical gadget becomes a reality.
- Several complaints will be made about the device, regarding missing features that Apple never claimed the phone would have in the first place.
- Pacific Catch, the San Francisco restaurant featured in the first iPhone ad, will be booked out for the next year.
Highly Improbable
- During the three-hour closure of the US Apple Stores tomorrow afternoon in preparation for the launch, huge Post-its will appear on the doors of all of them, bearing the legend "We'll be back soon"
- At 6 pm, Steve Jobs will appear on giant screens in all US Apple Stores, and declare "Fooled you all!! There is no iPhone. We just wanted to see how much you would believe. Instead, we are going to offer 30% off selected educational software!"
- George Ou, Rob Enderle and David Maynor will all slaver over the device and extol its virtues on their respective blogs.
In the meantime, from the essential "Secret Diary of Steve Jobs":
"Woman trades her child for spot at front of iPhone line"
and from iPhone Matters
"Dinner in Cupertino, June 28th, 2007"
And last but not least, David Pogue's review of the iPhone for the New York Times: