iPhone is here, now back to the Paris Hilton coverage

Just as Ambassador Kosh said in Babylon 5, “and so it begins.” The Daily Showbit and Stephen Colbert were funnier.

I think the iPhone will work out in the long run and if it follows the path of the iPod, it’ll slowly work its way into the world until it’s ubiquitous in a few years. I was wrong about the iPod, I didn’t think it would be as big as it turned out because the first one was pricey ($400 in 2001, over $450 today) and MP3 players were having difficulty saturating the market. I might be wrong on the iPhone yet I doubt it. Cell phones as they are are long in the tooth and this one may actually succeed in the achieving the phone-computer convergence.

Meanwhile, a couple friends of mine spent today waiting in line at the Domain Store. Hopefully they’ll have pictures.

Update Jun. 30, 2007: My friends who waited in line are pretty pleased with the phone. Adam posted pictures, I lifted the link from the comments. Seems the person/people behind boingboing.net posted good things too, that’s an improvement over their ill-informed DRM editorial a while back. On the negative side, there’s the constant naysaying of Slate. Then again, what would you expect from a site that was born with Microsoft’s DNA before being sold off to the Washington Post. I present it to throw in some skepticism. However, go to a store, find someone who has one, etc. and draw your own conclusion. I’m going to be in the wait-and-see category too yet my friend Jeremy says iPhone is living up to the majority of its expectations.