Opinion: Answer the iPhone

Really, who cares? It’s a mobile phone, OK? You use it to call people and also other people can call you, and you don’t need to be connected to the network. Amazing isn’t it? Only if you’ve been hibernating somewhere out near Jupiter for the last twenty years. Get well and truly over it, puhleese!

What we can really look forward to when the iPhone is finally released here is the bleating from all those who don’t have coverage from whichever carrier Apple chooses. And they’re not going to choose Telstra, because Apple likes being the one with the monopoly on marked cards. So that means one of the other “competitors” will get the thing and that also means it won’t work outside the capital cities and major towns. And Apple won’t care a jot.

But all the Apple fanbois will make our lives miserable once again bleating about how their lives have become shallow and meaningless without an iPhone. I’ve got news for them, and it’s all bad. Besides, true fanbois have already imported an iPhone regardless of carrier lock-in, and they’ve hacked it to work here. Well, make a few calls. The thing won’t perform all the tricks it’s capable of without being wedded to its network, so it’s all rather pointless. Like I said, get well and truly over it.