I’m watchin’ the keynote video of Steve Jobs, when he introduced the iPhone for the first time to the world. Haha, funny, back then it wasn’t “the iPhone” but just “iPhone”. As in, “Here’s one of the great things about iPhone…”. I guess back then, they were referring to iPhones like people do to “Apple” or “Macintosh” or “Windows” or “Microsoft”. Of course you wouldn’t call Windows “the Windows” or OS X as “the OS X”, as in, “The Windows is better than the OS X.”. But, iPhones being an object, you add “the” to it, like you would with a Ford Mustang. “Let’s take the Mustang out…”, but not “Let’s take Mustang out…”, as a Mustang is an object, but Ford, isn’t. “Ford’s stock is dropping…” and not “The Ford’s stock is dropping…”. So people at Apple were looking at iPhones more as an idea, dream, entity or whatever… rather than looking at it like the rest of the world, as an object (a phone). So it’s funny to hear him incorrectly say “iPhone” instead of “iPhones” or “the iPhone” or “an iPhone”.

But my main point was on price… can you believe what they used to cost?? Signing up for a two year contract, a 4 GB iPhone would cost $499… and an 8GB iPhone would cost $599! Again, this is AFTER signing a two year contract! Holy s…

When I look back at myself, shelling out $299 for a 32GB 3GS iPhone after signing a two year contract, I feel… well, blessed to be able to get a device such as this for the price I got. Paying $499 for a 4GB iPhone seems so crazy. But then I think back on it… buying a 4GB iPod and a smart phone back in 2007 did cost $499, so I guess it wasn’t such a bad move… for people who had money and probably didn’t have real life **** to worry about.

What’s really funny is, if you ever see someone who has the tell tail silver-metal backing of a 2G iPhone, and you happen to strike up a friendly conversation and they tell you that they have a 4 or 8 GB and their the original owner, just know how much money they threw down for their iPhone. I used to look at people with pitty, like “4GB? That sucks…” and feel sorry for them, telling them things to make them feel better, like “Most people don’t even use that much space on their iPhones anyways.” or something. Now, if their the original owner, I’m just gonna’ look at their either rich (or money stupid) *** and be like “I gotta’… *sniff*32GB 3GS here…”.

Peace, J