August 9, 2008
iTrendy
I finally joined the elite ranks of “Everyone Else” on Wednesday when I became the proud owner of a 16GB 3G iPhone. My amazing parents were gracious enough to buy it for me for my upcoming 25th birthday.
I took an early lunch to try to beat the crowds – and good thing too. When I walked up, there were only 3 people in front of me. When I left just shy of an hour later, there were several dozen people in line. The fact that Apple has made a product that is so coveted that people are still scrambling to wait in line for the opportunity to emphatically throw $300 at the feet of Steve Jobs and another $100 a month to AT&T for the next stage of life has to be making several Apple executives sleep very, very soundly these days.
All that aside, the whole purchasing experience was a conflicting, humbling one. Apple has long been seen as the trendy choice for young 20-somethings with hip jobs like web or graphic design, who spend their afternoons at Starbucks on their Macs, listening to Coldplay and Dave Matthews Band on their iPods. Oh, by the way, that’s me.
