iPhone Sickness

Okay, everyone who knows me knows that I have Apple Sickness and that I'm an unashamed Apple Fanboy. People who know me a little better know that I mix at least some logic into my fervor for Apple and I don't just blindly accept whatever Steve Jobs chucks out. I saw my first Macbook Air today and while I have always said I didn't want one and that it was a niché device, I find myself longing for a laptop so light that I barely know I'm holding it. But all my personal things aside, I felt that I must add my little bit to the thing that everyone is talking about: the iPhone 3G launch and the spectacular disaster that it was (or was it?).

Okay people, let's put things into perspective here. Anyone who waited outside in the cold for 7 hours for a phone that they can walk in and get without waiting more than a half hour the next day is a little crazy already, so we would expect crazy things from them. We can also expect people to get a little frustrated after waiting so long. I suppose that if I lived in New York City and had a well paying job (well I had better if I live in New York City) I would have been down there waiting in line for an iPhone 3G. I wouldn't, however, have gone home ranting and raving about how Apple's reputation is trashed after one day and how I'm never going to trust them again. Seriously though. The very fact that all their servers crashed early in the day only shows that something was not only miscalculated, but that they've done something very right in the past. Get a grip people. Go home, relax, watch some TV (probably listening to other people ranting about the iPhone) and then come back tomorrow and get one then. The iPhone was still a successful product, the iPhone 3G will still be a successful product, and all this will blow over within 24 hours. Sure it was annoying; at this point I still can't update my iPod Touch, but it's not going to kill me to wait another day. Apple underestimated demand and underestimated their server capacity. It's not like Mozilla didn't do the same thing not so long ago and everyone is still lauding the wonders of Firefox 3. It would have been a lot funnier if Apple had generated all this hype and no one had showed up. In a few weeks, everyone will have forgotten about it. I will be asking....where is your iPocalypse now people?

If me, a die-hard Apple user, can admit to their mistake and have a little patience, can't everyone else?