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Jul. 2nd, 2007 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
strredwolfTaking the 8 to Towson Town Center (closest Apple store) was a bust, as it landed me without a phone and an hour late getting back to work. I'm staying late tonight.
Which is a good thing, actually, because there's some issues that have to be delt with beforehand:
First, AT&T's backlogged heavily on activation requests, usually from people wanting to move to AT&T from other providers. They didn't expect this much demand. (Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, now estimates that half a million iPhones sold.)
Secondly, the iPhone locks itself to your PC or Mac like a cable modem locks itself to your firewall/NAT router. Oh boy, that's a deal breaker right there, given my current setup.
I want an iPhone, but I'll have to get a Mac first. I can't do that until Anthrocon is over, and I will also need a LCD display for it too -- the monitor I have on the old rig is fuzzing out, so much that I perfer to VNC to the Linux rig's LCD.
Which is a good thing, actually, because there's some issues that have to be delt with beforehand:
First, AT&T's backlogged heavily on activation requests, usually from people wanting to move to AT&T from other providers. They didn't expect this much demand. (Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, now estimates that half a million iPhones sold.)
Secondly, the iPhone locks itself to your PC or Mac like a cable modem locks itself to your firewall/NAT router. Oh boy, that's a deal breaker right there, given my current setup.
I want an iPhone, but I'll have to get a Mac first. I can't do that until Anthrocon is over, and I will also need a LCD display for it too -- the monitor I have on the old rig is fuzzing out, so much that I perfer to VNC to the Linux rig's LCD.
