I am not in the market for a phone, any phone. So, this is all lost on me. Yet, it is nearly impossible to escape the attention this thing has generated. One of our executive managers recently asked me what my iPhone strategy for the company was. He seemed crestfallen when I explained we did not have one, and developing one was not even on the radar screen.
You can read on this forum, "I hate the iPhone", "I love the iPhone", and the little darling has not even been released! I wish everyone would just chill a bit and let the wheels of time grind on. However, that is probably wishing for too much. There are some people/groups, which would love to see the iPhone fail. Some are direct competitors, others are more indirect ("anything that hurts Apple, helps me" type of thing).
On the other-hand, there are many people/groups, which would love to see the iPhone succeed. So, as the launch date has been growing closer, the volume of stories/articles, analyst's predictions, media coverage and blogging, seems to be exponentially growing. Quite frankly, it has surprised me. When the iPhone was the main focus of January's WWDC, I dreaded joining the MR forum. There was so much hype about everything EXCEPT the phone, I knew the disappointment level would be huge. It was. Since then, however, the momentum has grown. I did not realize there was so much interest in this device.
