I waited in line for 2 hours to buy the first iPhone the day it came out. I bought the second iPhone (the iPhone 3G) within 1-2 months of when it came out (AT&T subsidized it)… and I recently bought the iPhone 3GS when I was in San Francisco.
As the story goes, I was leaving Silicon Valley to go to SF when my phone battery died. Rather than buying a charger, I bought a phone at the Flagship Apple store in Union Square. Although it sounds like a major exercise in excess, I must add that I had intended to buy the phone when I got back to MN, and the poor battery performances simply forced me to play my cards sooner.
The phone purchase experience from Apple was exemplary, and I really had no problems. In fact, I’m enamored with Apple for producing such an amazing piece of hardware. Really, I have no beef at all with the phone; just the service provider. [Read more…]