...from all that iPhone frenzy. Not that I went out and stood in line to buy one or anything, just thinking about it wore me out. And reading about it - all those stories about Apple cultists queueing up at Apple stores. Funny, I don't remember any references to Microsoft cultists when people stood in line for Windows. Or the Zune. (OK that Zune part was a joke.) (Actually, come to think of it, the Microsoft cultists part was a joke too.)
The good news is that Apple, universally know as “the failing Apple” only ten or twelve years ago is now an awesome cult-inspiring glitterbunny and even has a product people stand in line for. Although standing in line for store openings has become sort of a custom, I don't remember lines for an Apple product before. When the iPod first came out it wasn't really the iPod yet, so who knew? And then there was the Newton, of course. A lot of good that did.
Still, the weirdest thing is that I haven't run across any stories about people standing in line at AT&T stores. Which is, after all, maybe the biggest story of all: some shift - maybe small, maybe not so - of power in the wireless industry away from the carriers and toward the manufacturers.
Some think that may be a good thing.
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