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iPhone is coming


An iPhone is coming.  An iPhone is coming.  To a store near you.  Come one and come all.  Line up now.  It is imminent.  This blog included there is still much chatter about an annual version change of a piece of hardware that 10 years in garners droves to tune in to all channels to soak it all in.

Some observations of said phenomena include the below -
  • Publishers of some repute making non statements like  - Reportedly Apple is looking to price its next iphone at $1,000...  Who is reporting, looking and pricing?  Anyone but Apple. Yet the click bait works each time.  People are truly agog.  From Guatemala to Guangzhou and Boston to Baku there are kids actually looking up what a $1,000 miracle looks like.  Many are actually researching the meaning of  a thousand dollars.  Earlier many of these folks did not even know what a dollar was let alone count beyond eight.
  • A man started an entire business around the idea of charging wannabe iphone owners to do so without the hassle of waiting in line.  He hired some homeless (and not so) folks to wait in line and buy the Apple produced box for someone else.  At $500 for the privilege the new iphone total cost now reportedly, very likely, seemingly, arguably appearing to be as much money as a small car or a down payment for a house in Fargo.
  • The very fun fact that it is still called an iPHONE.  Do the newest crop of users actually phone anyone?
  • Sociologists are pondering if the dictionary will add more verbs like tweet, snapchat, mendchit, dimwatt, razbot, whowhat?  and any other made up stuff and remove the verb 'phone'?  
Then there are the ignorant ones like me who still ask questions like  - what is a hashtag?  Sounds like a burned out or semi used joint.  I suspect in some ways it might be.  At any rate it is as popular as the new iphone so what do I know.

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