I met an iPhone farmer on Friday. We were standing in line at the Apple Store in SoHo, both waiting for the privilege to hand Apple Inc. hundreds of dollars. Apple launched two new phones on Friday and I wanted one because, well, I needed a new phone. The iPhone farmer wanted the phone so he could resell it and make $100. It was his third time through the line.
A few hours earlier, I had spontaneously decided to go buy an iPhone. My current device — an Android Droid Razr Maxx phone made by Motorola – was less than a year old, but it was a mess. It had two operating modes: the “George Foreman” mode where the phone would heat up like a sandwich grill and destroy the battery in about an hour, and “slo mo” mode where every action on the phone was executed like a sloth covered in molasses. It was driving me crazy, and I had been on the verge of replacing it with an iPhone when the new ones were announced a couple of weeks ago. The Apple website said that an online order would take seven to 10 days (which has since been updated to the vague, “October”) and I couldn’t take it anymore.
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