What is our obsession with technology? I try so hard to understand it. I love my computer as well as my iPod – I even love my Blackberry. I adore my Husqvarna electronic sewing machine. But would I ever…EVER have slept outside a store in the rain to buy them? Um, no.
In the past, concert tickets, yes. But not for something that will be available AND cheaper in the months to come.

The iPhone on its release day was priced from $500.00 to $750.00 and this is a phone that’s based on slower, 2G, or second-generation, wireless phone technology with a limited memory of 4 or 8 gigabytes - far less than the 30 to 80 GB in full-size iPods. But - shiver - it seems there are people who will still camp outside a store to be the first to have one; is that what it’s about? (Full article ‘iPhone’)