iStung

OK. I’m trying hard not to smirk. Or sound smug.

But for once, I’m on the winning side of the bleeding edge: I decided to wait for my iPhone, and in the process, it appears I saved about 200 bucks (in addition to avoiding some wacked-out phone bills from AT&T).

Apple’s announcement of fabulous new iPods and a much lower price for an iPhone was greeted with joy by everyone who didn’t wait hours outside an Apple store to get the first iPhones off the assembly line. As Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson put it, they were “iRate.”

I don’t guess Jobs helped much when he said “that’s technology.” He’s right, but still…the usual refresh rate is a bit more than 10 weeks. He offered a $100 store credit to anyone who paid full price, basically.

And so I’ve spent the last couple days silently chortling at the chagrin of my iPhone-toting colleagues. For once I tempered my technolust with a dose of reality and decided to wait for rev 2. (Helped along by Verizon, which holds my phone contract until May 2008)

Gee. I hope that doesn’t mean I’m getting old. Probably does mean that I’m growing up.

Drat.

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