Fans Cheer as Apple's iPhone Finally Hits Europe

An anonymous reader sent in this article which opens, "Apple fans lined up through Yesterday night in Germany and Britain to be among the first in Europe to buy an iPhone, the must-have gadget that is set to shake up the mobile industry." Over 10,000 phones were sold in Germany by Friday afternoon. In France, however, the iPhone doesn't arrive until the end of month.

Comments

Re:just shows there are gullible people everywhere

[dwater]

I feel a bit envious, but not of the owner.

Rather on behalf of other just-as-or-more-worthy phones that get little or no attention for no good reason (apart from hype).

Re:no more whining

[Idaho]

Mod parent down please. It's a nice troll - I wonder by who he is paid to post here.

However, as apparently a lot of people believe this bullshit:

* The phone will only work as long as Apple wants it to work

You mean that if you update the firmware of a hacked iPhone, it might break? Same as for other phones then (although people hardly ever upgrade their cellphone firmware, so nobody normally notices).

        * The Phone will cost a fortune to use outside of the local area

As does any other phone. This has nothing to do with the iPhone.

        * The phone is programmed to check mail and deliver revenue to your service provider even when it is "off"

This is bollocks.

        * The phone is a closed environment, and will probably require several days with a loaner phone, at additional cost, to repair.

Probably. Ah, so you don't actually know? Also, when is the last time you repaired your non-iPhone cellphone yourself?

        * this phone does not have the advanced features that everyone seems to find so critical in other phones, such as user generated custom ringtones.

Bzzt wrong. Maybe pay attention to the news, if you absolutely have to put annoying ringtones no your iPhone, that's been perfectly possible since about 2 week after its introduction. Indeed it does not have some advanced features that almost nobody ever uses in the real world. Hardly anybody seems to care. How many weblogs did you read about people returning their iPhones in dismay after they discovered it doesn't support...well, what?