First Day of Newest iPhone
Friday was not as big a day for Apple as they were hoping it would be. The newest version of the iPhone with 3G and GPS was finally released. Customers were waiting in line for hours, but then tragedy struck. The iPhone could be purchased, but it could not be activated. Many of these fanboys and fangirls were left to wonder why they had spent hours waiting in line in the first place. It took them a few hours and a few hundred dollars for an iPhone-shaped paperweight, but they are finally thinking what the rest of the world was thinking when looking at the lines.
This latest problem at Apple on what should have been the best day of their year does make you wonder. Rumor has it that Steve Jobs may be taking some time off to focus on this health. His frail appearance at last month’s Apple WWDC made people realize that the public concept of Apple is completely entwined with Jobs’ personality. No one outside of Apple is clear on who would take over if something did happen to Jobs. Not a good state for a very successful publicly traded company and certainly not the norm. Even Microsoft had a smooth transition from Gates to Ballmer.
But maybe the biggest sign that Apple may have reached a transition point is that Fake Steve Jobs is giving up the blog. Even he found it too hard to joke about Jobs when his health was not the best.