It got marketed. Now I'm not saying it isn't interesting and great step forward, but for all the naysayers out there, what you're essentially complaining about is that Apple marketed the phone and put it in front of you. There are lots of high end phone like devices out there today from Nokia, HTC and others that are even more expensive, than the iPhone. Know why you've never heard of them? Because phone companies don't really market phones. They slap them up on their website.

The AT&T 8525 is one great bundle of electronics, feature-wise. But have you ever seen an ad for one? They list for $600. In fact most of the high end HTC phone like the Mogul, Wing, TyTN, PPCC 6700 and S720 are great. But they come in under the radar and the haters don't know about them. They spend zero in marketing.

So at the end of the day the problem people who have a problem with Apple is, is that the company spent a few hundred million dollars promoting it. (and sticking enough on board flash into it w/o making you go out and buy a uSD card.)

So how's that e-Discovery working out for you? Get slammed with any multi million dollar sanctions recently? You will.

I took him on a flight from NY to Dallas. He cried the whole way. So when we landed some fat bastard who chewed an unlit cigar the whole way rolled his eyes and complained? Fuck you pal.

If nothing else, a fairly normal web browser with something approaching browser speeds would be a godsend. For one thing a large number of sites have special low tech sub sites dedicated to to phone use today. Problem is they're rarely updated or even functioning. So if we just had 3G that ran at a rock solid 500KB or higher we could use the same websites as a computer. Keep in mind that in some countries Megabit speeds or higher is the norm for phones. OK unlocked GSM is fine but it runs a LOT slower than CDMA. And EVDO-rev. A is barely workable. Barely.

But the thing that pisses me off more than anything else is all the bullshit monthly add ons that phone companies want to charge. All of freebie web apps like AIM, Google maps and such are charged monthly by my carrier which is unacceptable. So a phone which is really a computer that can dump your desktop apps into would be great.

But iPhone can't fix what's wrong with phones. No phone can. It's the godawful carriers who should all DIAF that are the problem.

BTW - has anyone seen that phone that can piggyback on a WiFi hotspot? I would LOVE something like that if the bandwidth works.

Because the Dutch woman with dirty hair who downed a fistful of sleeping pills and passed out in my lap, or the old guy who spent 9 hours coughing out his lungs and wheezing, or soccermom who spent the whole trip yammering at the top of her lungs about her trip to Cozumel, or the family who literally could not fucking stop getting up to either get something down or put something back in the overhead, or the old ass guy who insisted on carrying on a conversation with me, or the dumb hillbilly who had never been on a plane before, but thank the gods, he brought his own fake set of binoculars filled with everclear to dull the fear, because they weren't annoying and deserving of being pushed head first into one of the turbofans, yeah good thing little Miss FA kicked the toddler off.

I would rather have yammering kids and crying babies on a plane because unlike the grownup assholes on the plane, they're not actually demanding you treat them special.

1) if someone really needs to find me, they will, email is no longer a way to reach people

2) if you have a 16,000 line inbox, you're doing it wrong

3) use folders that make sense

4) 95% of your email is junk. I don't mean junk mail which should have already been pruned, the leftover which is no longer needed as well

5) if it's 90 days old (or 6 months or whatever) archive it

6) email is the lazy man's ftp

7) turn on your spam/junk mail filter - if it's overaggressive people will tell you

8) garbage always fills the bag, no matter the limit you impose you will always exceed it

Air travel will continue to crumble until it becomes the domain of either people too rich to give a shit or people who simply don't have much other choice. It's like living in Manhattan or India: either a Hobbesian hell or the crystal palace floating among the clouds.

There is no solution to to air travel. Why just last month I had a flight canceled on me for the obligatory weather/computer/we don't know sir reason. Their recovery was to offer me a flight the next day. One would normally shrug and say - fneh. But I was going to a wedding and couldn't really change the plans of 250 other people. Did I mention that the original flight was 90 minutes and that the door to door time for their make up was 10 hrs? Ten hours, a day later. That's customer service from American Airlines. Anyway, when I asked to speak to someone else about this their response was to pick up the phone and call airport security who then happily volunteered to escort me out of the airport. Wound up renting a car and driving 9 hrs. AA wound up taking my 50,000 ff miles and the $18 whatever 'processing fee though'.

There is no solution to air travel and we should just let it die and degrade into the Bus to Bangalore, or, the Pleasure Palace in the sky. I sincerely hope it dies.

And honestly, the next person who points a blue rubber gloved finger in my face is getting it broken off and jabbed in their fucking eyes.