Not me, buddy. I’m no gadget geek. My wireless phone is an aging Samsung A660. I’ve never owned an iPod, although I bought one for my daughter and I’m a power user of iTunes at home and at work.
Then again, Apple sold more than 1 million iPhones by Sunday, so lots of people obviously care about the new iPhone.
The iPhone 3G went on sale last Friday, and people in New York City were lining up a week in advance. Some of those folks, however, apparently were hippie farmers trying to make a point about organic food and technology.
A lot more people lined up just for the iPhones, including Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, who spent hours at a mall in San Jose, California — not waiting in line, like most civilians, but lounging on the comfy furniture in the mall and then taking his place at the head of the line when the Apple store opened on Friday morning. Violence did not ensue, as Apple fanatics will countenance anything from the two creators of the Apple II personal computer. (To be fair, Woz later reported that he had permission in advance from the staff of the Apple store in question to sit on the chairs near the store entrance and then to be first in line, along with several friends, as the store opened.)
The big news about iPhone 3G launch day was all the trouble activating the newly purchased phones (not a surprising development, given that hundreds of thousands of iPhones were bought that day in Apple and AT&T stores) and the temporary “bricking” of existing iPhones as their owners installed the newest version of iTunes and downloaded the cool new iPhone applications from the App Store. Through the weekend, there were more than 10 million iPhone and iPod touch apps downloaded.
The iPhone 3G is a certified hit, and it may help boost sales for chip makers supplying semiconductors for the new smart phone. They include Broadcom, Infineon Technologies, Marvell Technology Group, Skyworks Solutions, and TriQuint Semiconductor.
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