On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:18:36 -0500, Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote:

>Bucky wrote:
>> I also think that the iPhone is mostly hype and will end up a bust.
>>
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>I agree about the mostly hype, Apple/AT&T seem to have pulled off a coup
>with this product, each company playing their hype off the media, and
>each have been getting free media coverage ever since. So, to everyone
>that's been salivating over the iPhone since day one, you're acting like
>Pavlov's puppy - responding to the hype, not the product. Marketing
>hype offers the iPhone bone, and it works well on trained puppies.


Sometimes hyped things become Great Successes. Like the Prius. Now
750,000 sold.