So, there’s one thing I want to mention re: the iPhone launch – I’m sure everyone’s sick to death of hearing about the iPhone. All I want to say is THANK YOU to Apple for producing enough of these things that the jackasses who sat in line for days looked like complete assholes when you could walk into a store the next morning and pick one up without standing in line.

Thank you.

After the PS3 launch, I just assumed that every tech launch afterwards would exploit the eBay assholes for publicity’s sake – that the “value” of the product would be based solely on the potential eBay markup. And Nintendo’s idiotic inability to get Wiis in the channel would just feed the fury. Fortunately, a bunch of morons got burned on the PS3 launch, getting stuck with 2 or 3 units they’d have to sell at a loss. With the iPhone, hopefully even more people got hosed, and maybe we’ll start to see a trend where manufacturers realize it’s to their benefit to produce enough to meet demand on day one, and that the eBay goons realize they’re gonna continue to get screwed.

I doubt it, but you know, I can hope. Still, thanks, Apple, for showing how a product launch should be run.