Jesus Christ has returned!! Oh..wait....nevermind. It's just the iPhone.

Glory glory! The day so many Mac fanatics and gadget freaks and people with large disposable incomes have been fantasizing about has arrived. {trumpet fanfare} the iPhone is heeeeeere.

First, a disclaimer. I'm a big Apple/Mac fan. I think it started back in The Day when I first played Oregon Trail on an Apple II in elementary school. I own two Macs, 3 ipods and a partridge in a pear tree. I love (although with gas being $3 a gallon, I don't love it as *much* anymore) driving to Durham to visit the Southpoint Apple store where I careen around the shop like a tech junkie jonesing for a fix. I play with all the new computers, experiment with every new OS and marvel at how small the iPods have become. I love that New Mac smell.

But it cracks me up that the news stresses that many people are waiting in line to buy the 1st Gen. iPhone for "bragging rights"

Ahem.

I don't know what kind of friends y'all have, but I know that if I approached my friends with my 1st generation $600 cell phone/toy complete with 60-$100 a month plan w/ a questionable carrier, doing a "I-waited-in-line-5-days-for-this" BOO-YAH dance of victory, they would be many things but impressed is not one of them.

Amused? Probably. Horrified at the B.O. stench that accompanies waiting in line for 5 days? Most definitely. They would be entranced with the iPhone and appreciative that I am magnanimous enough to let them play with it but they would certainly not be impressed with me and the manner I chose to acquire this little beauty of a gizmo.

Of course if waiting in line yourself is just not your cup of tea but waiting a couple days to order online is just too, I dunno, sane, then you can pay someone to wait in line for you.

I'm not trying to piss on anyone's parade here, I know what it's like to be super-duper-uber excited about something (I've camped out overnight for concert tickets, and met some great people in the process) but SERIOUSLY!! Spending 3+ days outside, in a lawn chair, to drop $600 (do you KNOW what I could do with $600?!?!) on a FIRST GENERATION electronic doodad, then be subjected to AT&T/Cingular's crappy service for 2 years while knowing full well that a new and improved 2nd Generation will be released in a year or less?

*blink*

Seriously???

Me? I'm holding out for the much rumored touch-screen/full screen Next Gen Video iPod. You know, something I'll only have to sell a kidney for.