Chill Out iPhone Dudes! $3 is a SMALL Price to Pay for Apple Glory
Have the tech “early adopters” lost their touch?
First, Hugh MacLeod calls Quechup “fucking scumbags” for purportedly confusing him about “contact management” and now, once geeks gone wild for the iPhone are going wild because their hero, Steve Jobs, is deemed to have “screwed” them into waiting hours on line AND paying full price to be the first to delcare iPhone nirvana!
CHILL OUT DUDES!
Quechup is NOT the problem, YOUR mass import of YOUR unwitting email address book is. Who says all of your email contacts want their personal, confidential email addresses filtered by every single Plaxo, Facebook, Twitter wannabe: You do.
Steve Jobs is NOT the problem, YOUR fickle love hate worship for all YOUR things Apple is. Who says you have to camp out overnight at the Palo Alto Apple to “cross path with Jobs”: You do.
You want in to “early adopter” glory? You have to pay the price.
The price for Quechup glory is surprising low, and so is the Apple iPhone glory price.
Don’t want to blame Quechup for “spamming” the email list that you gave them? READ THE QUECHUP INSTRUCTIONS!
Don’t want Apple to undercut you two months out of the iPhone gate? WAIT FOR THE INEVITABLE PRICE DROP.
But why wait? Why deprive yourself of all things Apple for even one day?
After all, what price did you really pay to be able to live the Apple dream from day one? JUST $3 A DAY!
So, don’t be iPhone cheapstkate cry babies! Be the cool dudes that you really are: Declare your Steve Job worship is a bargain at the $200 you invested to be the proud, first one on your virtual blocks, owners of iPhone, at a cool $599.
Not convinced? Just relive the testimonial of Thomas Hawk:
To those who say it was stupid to camp out overnight at the Palo Alto Apple store when I could have gotten it waiting only 4 hours in line at a At&T store somewhere else, you just don’t get it.
Camping out last night at the Palo Alto Apple store was not about an iPhone. It was about an experience. Something that I value far more than my new iPhone. There were many highlights for me.
When we left the Apple store we crossed paths with Jobs. I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t even notice. Kristopher did though and he traded nods and a wink with Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs has been a long-time hero of Kristopher’s. It was an intensely powerful emotional thing for him. One of the best days of his life I’m sure.
If THAT is not worth $200, what is!
PLUS: Hey iPhone ‘Early Adopters’: NO Google Fight in the Real Apple World and BOYCOTT: Sweet Apple Revenge! Got Screwed? Return the iPod Favor