June 4, 2007
Fever Builds for iPhone (Anxiety Too)
iPhone hysteria is beginning to reach levels usually reserved for video-game machines at Christmas. The New York Times reports.
"... Although the phones are expected to cost as much as $600 when they go on sale at Apple and AT&T stores June 29, each company has received more than a million inquiries about the product's availability.
Further evidence that expectations have been wound up to a fever pitch: the phones, or promises to deliver a phone, are already on sale on eBay for $830.
... The anticipation, which is intense even by Jobsian standards, has led to some quiet, behind-the-scenes anxiety at Apple. The high price will limit the phones’ appeal to true believers. The cellular network that the iPhone operates on is slower than those of many of its rivals.
Several of Apple’s handset competitors hope that its decision not to include a keyboard, relying instead on a touch-screen virtual keyboard, will limit the attractiveness of the iPhone in text-intensive business markets."
Wait and see.
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