I don’t know what it’s like for our friends in other countries, but last week’s iPhone release provided a really impressive spectacle: the hype, the websites, the news, the art — who could help but be reminded of the Tulip Craze in seventeenth-century Holland, (and pray that we somehow escape the same tragic end)?
Well, I’m probably dating myself a little, but really: where else would people start camping out a week in advance just for the chance of scoring another goldang contraption? As it is I already feel like a dog with a half dozen cans tied to my tail, what with my laptop, cell phone, PDA, watch, glasses, and all their cases, chargers, cradles, and cableage. And every one of them has a different interface that I have to take a couple days off work to figure out. (Sorry: I rant, therefore I am.)
