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Can't wait for your iPhone fix?  

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I don't know what the release date is over there, but here in the US it’s almost iPhone time! Which means every Apple Freak out there is going to want to be the first on their block to flash their reeeely cooool new iPhone when they drive their Hummer round the block to pick up a pizza.

And with its Google Maps functionality there’s no way they can possibly get lost on the way. Then while they wait for the pizza to come out of the oven they can look at satellite images of the Eiffel Tower or the Coliseum in Rome! Once they get home they can watch a movie on the two inch screen, then check closing stock prices before turning in for the night and setting the iPhone alarm to wake them up in the morning. Then they can use it to take a shower!

Oh, and guess what? You can even use it to make phone calls… No wonder it’s worth every penny of the $600 price tag. Who says Steve Jobs isn't a genius?

Published May 24 2007, 05:35 AM by George Parker
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by Gordon Macmillan
May 24, 2007 10:24 AM
 
Apple is one of those companies that bugs me. It has for so long been revered by geeks, nerds and techies, who have always held it up to be a company apart. A sort of rebel corporation among a sea of sameness. You bought Apple as it said something. You know like "Hey, I'm not a PC Clone!". Think different? Right? Well that's what the ads told the geeks and Mac heads to do, but that's just a cool marketing trick that helped to sell that idea that Apple is more decent than other corporations. And ever more so now that Apple has gone all Intel and capable of running Windows. When it's not. The iPod, which pretty much saved the company, has shown this in so many ways. It might be a nicely designed piece of technology, but that's pretty much it. It's also over-priced, with a poor feature set, totally unreliable and with a poor battery life. Should you have a problem with it, good luck. It seems to me that Apple don't really want to help you. They want you to buy another one, which is what people do rather than endure poor customer care and a six-month wait. God help people who buy the phone. I've had two iPods. I know, it's all my own fault. I would never buy an Apple Mac, but I fell for the hype. I'm such a sucker, I feel bad. To be fair, I only fell for the cool design and the Me2ness of it all. I wasn't under any illusion that Apple was somehow an ethical right-on company. I never saw it as any different to a Microsoft or Big Blue and the stories coming out of China year where the bots making iPods live in slave like conditions just like the folks making Nike shoes. These guys will be making the phones as well. And you know why Apple likes China. It's the low wages, long hours and China's industrial secrecy. The Chinese love police and security. It should say so on the back of all its products with a big smiley face. Instead, all it says on the back of your iPod should you take a look is this: "Designed in California, Made in China". But then maybe it doesn't need to, everyone can read between the lines these days. The phone will be the same. Sad saps will run out and buy them. Some people, i tell you.
 
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