Why are Rocketpig and dib8rman still arguing?
Yes, the Iphone is a success to all the naysayers. I may not like Apple very much, but they have done well with their Iphone, and it is even in my price range now, but I don't exactly need one.
There was a chance the Iphone would become a fad after sales plummeted shortly after launch and they had to drop the price by $200, but sales picked up, and Apple was really smart about getting a newer, cheaper, and better model out the door very quickly.
Apple may do some things wrong, but they sure as hell know how to market their stuff, and you can't even really call the Iphone overpriced anymore, unless they still have the mandatory contract with that one cellphone provider who charges an arm and a leg, but even then the overall price and quality is significantly better.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
