Jose Anes Weblog

This Friday the 11th of June, Apple will release their 8 and 16GB 3G iPhones.  I will be traveling on Friday, so I will not have the opportunity to go and buy one.

Come Saturday morning I will go and check if there are still any available ones.  Apple has surely created more than they expect to sell on the first day — they probably want to sell a few more over the next few days.  Or… have they?  I have heard so many people talking about buying one this Friday that I wonder where are the people who struggle to make ends meet or to get gas money.  Can’t blame them, the iPhone is almost a dream come true:  I would probably go a month without food to buy one if I where economically struggling (talk about an iPhone diet — I can loose about 10 pounds).

• If Apple runs out of 3G iPhones, I propose raising the Gas Tax a few dollars per gallon!  Just to slow down consumption of both, iPhones and Gas: too much money on people’s pockets mean inflation, and inflation is bad.  I should also run and buy a few AAPL stocks, even after the beating they have taken lately.
• If they do not run out of iPhones, I still don’t know if I would buy one.  Waiting for the blackberry bold may be the wisest thing to do.  It is just that the iPhone seems so cool.  Then again… I can probably wait a bit longer with my almost destroyed phone…  After all, it makes calls about 50% of the time.

Seriously… should I buy an iPhone like the hoardes?  Or should I get one of those old, indestructibles Nokia 5160 and be done with the craziness of having the next cool gadget?

The iPhone is calling me…  Yes, I can hear you now….