Touching is Believing

Flick to the right folks. The iPhone is just a mere week away from launch now. This afternoon/evening AT&T and Apple sent out a pair of emails with a 24+ minute video attached detailing all sorts of info about the iPhone. If there is one thing I can say about these final weeks, the tension has obviously been getting worse and worse for me and many others waiting for this device. If nothing else can be said about Steve Jobs, it's that his keen and yet wicked ability is like none other when it comes to dangling these little tidbits in front of us like yarn in front of a kitten. There's actually so much news and hype right now I couldn't begin to delve into it all for fear of a serious case of carpal tunnel.
At a minimum, I must applaud Apple and AT&T's amazing work in promoting this device. I cannot think of anything including recent gaming systems that has gotten so much hype from the masses with almost no direct work to advertise and really push the item. They have really just announced it, kept it as secret as possible, and let their little calculated bits of info slide; letting us, the common man do all the rest for them. The endless blogs and podcasts have made this product one of the most celebrated devices next to the wheel.
Having watched through the video and seen the amazing things this phone can do in perspective for once, it really satisfies my mind, that I haven't been wasting my time in following this phones development. It will truly go down in history as a game changer.
The video itself was quirky. Very matter-of-factly presented. The speaker who spends too much time waving the iPhone around, managing to keep my eyes following his hand and not at his less-than-normal model ideal of a face man's face. Only briefly does he even flash the front of it at you. It makes you want to jump in the video and snatch it from his hands in the most deranged possible way. Regardless, the video answered many more of the lingering questions. I can only imagine release day will be like the final episode of Lost. All the great mysteries finally answered. In the meantime, they answer a few here and there, and then leave the rest to be thought about and debated over, and ultimately thrown out the window as they unveil all new amazing things. That is why Lost succeeds, and that is why this iPhone's marketing has succeeded so well. It's almost Hitchcockian.
Anyway, as the little bits of news come and go, like the amazing extended battery life announcement earlier this week, as well as the addition of YouTube, and more, I managed to settle on my battle plan. Not that anyone is reading this blog yet anyway (which I hope will change soon), but I must keep it under wraps. I managed to check with the store I'll be going to, and they answered my questions perfectly. Now I can only wait, and hope, and try to get on line at such a reasonable a time as that I go home on the evening of June 29th, 2007 a happy man. I also have to keep my wife away from this blog before she thinks I'm more nuts than she already does. Viva la iPhone!