iWon't Buy One

Don't know if you've heard, but Apple has some gadget coming out this month.

Sheesh, there certainly is a ton of buzz around this iPhone, and there has been for six or eight months. Considering what it puts right at your fingertips for just $600, the hype is presumably well deserved.

But I must say I'm surprised it's being rolled out on the Friday evening (6 p.m. EDT) of a holiday weekend. Typically not short on confidence, or competence, Apple must be having some reservations about its new toy. The computing giant figures whatever shortcomings its first edition will have by the time the masses return to work and or shake off the July 4 hangover, the iPhone buzz will have died down in favor of the real news of the week -- what is Paris wearing to her Out Of Jail party?

Making things doubly confusing is the care Apple is rumored to be taking in getting the iPhones to retail. PAE has heard that instead of shipping via UPS or FedEx or U.S. Mail, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company is flying reps to points all across the nation, arming them with the iPhones and having them personally deliver the product to many of the stores that will be selling them on the first weekend. This whole thing makes very little sense to me.

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