The Ghost of General Lee wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:08:31 +0000 (UTC), Steve Sobol
> <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2007-06-25, Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> We don't care about this overhyped piece of crap.
>>>> Sour grapes.
>>> Sour grapes?!? Some fanbois keep posting these news stories to groups
>>> that don't give a shit. It's spam. If people want to real the Steve Jobs
>>> worship news stories they know where to find them.
>> Indeed. I would say the fact that it's a Cingular exclusive for five years
>> would make all of the hype rather irrelevant to Verizon users, no?
>
> Quite.
>
> It amazes me to see the number of people with hard-ons for this phone.
> But we all know how it goes. Big hype, followed by numerous bugs.
> It'll be fun to watch the Cingular group over the next few weeks to
> see how much pissing and moaning goes on about this overpriced "my
> dick is bigger than your dick" toy once its in regular users' hands.
>

Amazingly many people seem to define their identities by the the things
they own. Since there will always be a bigger TV or a "fancier"
electronic device it is a no win game and they constantly have to be
trying to acquire the latest thing to get that few minutes of having
something that someone else doesn't have.