I just don't even understand why anyone would INSIST on buying a phone on launch day if they couldn't get a color they liked enough to actually keep the phone.
Why not just go to the Apple Store and play with the display models? I mean, if you sold your iPhone and really don't want to wait, I can see that... especially if you use the phone for business or are heavily tied to the platform. I'm in that position, and that's why I hung on to my 3GS. I've upgraded every year around launch time (First year bought on launch day, 2nd 2 months later, 3rd bought on launch weekend). I never sell my old phones until I have my new one in hand, working, and set up like I want.
It takes all of a day or 2, tops, to sell a used iPhone on Craigslist or some such.
If you cannot part with a couple two or three hundred for 2 days while waiting to recoup some of your loss, then really? Do you need a new phone? (That's rhetorical, everyone has to answer that question for his/her self)
I stand by my original assertion. Buying a black phone just to be the first person in your... what? house? cul-de-sac? to have a new iPhone (and really? since the launch of the 3GS, it's unlikely that you'll even be able to guarantee that... nearly everyone has an iPhone) and get bragging rights or something?
Explaineth. I mean, I've had new phones at launch. I know it's fun. But, really?
They don't have the color I wanted. I wait.
Maturia. Yep. I apparently moved there and didn't even know it.
I'm mildly disappointed, as I really enjoyed my sense of childlike wonder. Maybe the neighbors'll let me keep it.
