I geek with thee: iPhone/Rockit version

1. L.B. Jeffries
   June 26th, 2007 at 9:43 am

   I look forward to the day when thousands of people buy an I-phone, show others the amazing interface and long list of features that rarely get used, and get on with their lives.

2. Adam Stanhope
   June 26th, 2007 at 9:51 am

   I watch the Digg Technology feed. The number of iPhone stories that come through - and get hundreds or thousands of "Diggs" is frightening!

   Somebody posts a blurry photo of an Apple employee possibly using an iPhone at a party last weekend - thousands of geeks wet their pants.

   Somebody sees an iPhone display at an Apple story covered with a sheet - thousands of geeks wet their pants.

   Now - don't get me wrong: Je suis un geek, but I stopped wetting my pants 20 years ago when I graduated from high school. iPhone fever is getting out of control.

3. Adam Stanhope
   June 26th, 2007 at 9:53 am

   As far as camping out for a product is concerned, my only trespass into that territory was waiting in line outside a toy store one frosty morning the day after Thanksgiving to get my daughter a Tickle Me Elmo for Christmas.

4. smfr
   June 26th, 2007 at 10:38 am

   "FRIDAY MORNING" -- actually 6pm (local time) Friday evening.

5. Adam Stanhope
   June 26th, 2007 at 10:45 am

   Really?

   Thanks for the correction!

6. Aramax
   June 26th, 2007 at 1:47 pm

   The iphone is just a very expensive cell phone. Nothing useful or new about it if now for the gizmo and gadgets inside that do nothing particular at all.

   2 megapixel cameras give crappy result when you make movies and if you take pictures you need a good light source or else the pictures are all grainy and almost imposible to look at.

   They give Ipods for free now so why pay to have some mp3 players anymore.

   Surfing the web while im away from home is not my definition of having a good time. ( Although the safari browser and internet connectivity is the only reason why I would buy an iphone so far ).

   It's a cell phone... who need cell phones in the 20th century anyway?

   http://www.openmoko.org/

7. Adam Stanhope
   June 26th, 2007 at 2:06 pm

   Aramax:

   1. It is the 21st century
   2. The reason, I think, that many of us are excited about the iPhone has little or nothing to do with the fact that it is a phone. It is because it is essentially a fully-functional Macintosh shoehorned into a device the size of a phone. Furthermore, the idea that the interface/input can be completely malleable opens up a new realm of opportunities for innovation.

   I am confident that the "killer app" for the iPhone will be something none of us has ever thought of and will have nothing to do with telephony.

8. Laura
   June 26th, 2007 at 4:24 pm

   the japanese have had touch screen mini-computer phones for several years now. When Apple went to japan to show the phone, nobody cared, because it really wasnt all that special. Who gives a crap. In a couple months after iphone release, some japanese company is going to release something here that they've had on the market over there for years, and nobody will care about the iphone except people whos self worth is tied up in brand name and percieved cost.

9. Alex
   June 26th, 2007 at 4:37 pm

   Let it be known that when the iPhone announcement drove the Interweb wild, Neatorama's ONLY coverage was this post: the iPhone cake.

   Proves that we're luddites when it comes to technology.

10. Slappy
    June 26th, 2007 at 9:10 pm

    I have an LG 3300, it can place and receive calls too.

11. Jerse
    June 26th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

    The only people that would actually have a use for the iPhone are people who are too busy to use a computer for 5 minutes.

    I predict that in one year the iPhone will be nothing more than an expensive paperweight.

12. Adam Stanhope
    June 26th, 2007 at 11:52 pm

    I respectfully disagree, Jerse.

    Apple scored so big with the iPod - "The perfect thing." The iPod has most certainly been a revolutionary consumer device, right up there with transistor radios and the Sony Walkman.

    Within a few days we're going to begin to see crazy and clever iPod hacks, mods and new applications. Somebody is going to come up with something somewhere along the way that will have the ability to change lives or save lives or inform or entertain in some new way that's going to blow our minds. I can't wait!

13. Adam Stanhope
    June 26th, 2007 at 11:54 pm

    P.S. I'd like to lodge a complaint with our gracious host here... Alex: How come the Google AdWords ads on this page keep on coming up with "Are you a loser?" and a link to the "LoserQuiz"? Is it me? It's not me is it?

    Mommy.

14. brandon
    June 27th, 2007 at 12:09 am

    i have the latest apple product. it's called iManidiot.

15. brandon
    June 27th, 2007 at 12:11 am

    no no it's actually called iNeedtheconstantaffirmationofmypeersandtheexclusivityofowninganexpensi vegadget.

    but hey they said the same thing about THE WHEEL.

16. Alex
    June 27th, 2007 at 12:29 am

    I dunno, Adam - the Adwords keep on trying to calculate the name of my perfect lover...

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