Ummm, its just another phone you know

 I’m talking about the much hyped Apple iPhone which went on sale in the US this week. 

Some people need to get a life, if their response to the launch of a new mobile phone is anything to go by.  For example:

• Kristian Gundersen flew from Norway to New York to be among the first people to buy Apple’s media-playing iPhone. He described the day as one of the best of his life.
• Albert Livingstone’s wife thought he was crazy for lining up overnight in Chicago outside the Apple store. He stood in line with his friend Mark Stevenson, 50. They rented a room across the street and took turns to sleep.
• Terry Austin, a 23-year-old New Yorker, waited in line for 27 hours outside Apple in New York.
• Grant Johnson, 41, managed to get his hands on three when the doors opened at the Apple store on New York’s Fifth Avenue. He had asked a girl in front of him to buy an extra one. “I’m keeping one and selling the other two, I’m trying to get $US1,200 ($A1,400) for them,” said Johnson, who had queued up for 25 hours. “I haven’t slept in a day and a half,” he said. “I need a nice hot shower and a bath.”
• Liz Cecchini of San Antonio, Texas. She and her husband lined up a day before the launch, enduring pouring rain to buy four - one each for themselves, their 15-year-old daughter and a friend.

Some people even paid others to stand in line to buy a phone for them!  These 2 got $300 each for waiting 24 hours.

Can’t see myself rushing out to buy one when they are on sale in Australia next year.  However, if someone wants to give me one, I won’t knock it back.  No doubt there will be glitches in the initial release so waiting a while for these to be ironed out, and the price to drop, is probably not a bad idea.