[magellan]

Note everyone wants to spend $600 for a 8GB iPod, even if it includes a phone. Especially after dropping $300 on an 80GB iPod.

I mean, 4GB and 8GB flash MP3 players are supposed to be compact, and large devices like the iPhone are supposed to have 30GB, 60GB, or even 80GB of space.

As an Internet device, it might be okay if it had a 3G connection and a slide-out keyboard. Given the sludge that one gets on a Treo or Blackberry just by talking on the phone, I cannot imaging what kind of slime the screen of the iPhone is going to pick up as both a phone, keyboard, and mousepad.

Give the iPhone an EV-DO or HSDPA data connection, and a hard drive, and I may bite. But not an 8GB GPRS/EDGE device.

[Sunnyflorida]

“Note(sic) everyone wants to spend $600 for a 8GB iPod, even if it includes a phone. Especially after dropping $300 on an 80GB iPod.”

But some people want an iPhone and they do not give a crap if it only costs $600. Some people have money and like to spend it on gadgets. I know people with barely the money to pay rent yet the money goes to Marlboros and Busch. How much does the typical smoker pay on cigs? Seems like iPhones is a better choice than butts.

[Space Wrangler]

Five days is hardly enough time to call it either way, but I'd imagine that the activation mis-steps hurt sales at least somewhat. At $600, I'd imagine that alot of the potential market is adopting a wait and see attitude. If the iPhone holds up and performs as advertised Apple will have another winner on their hands.

Personally, I think marrying the iPhone to AT&T for such an extended period was a huge mistake. But time will tell.