Everyone knows that when the IPhone comes out that it will sell faster than they can be supplied. However in the long run being tied to AT&T exclusively is going to hurt Apple because AT&T's service sucks.
A friend of mine from Missouri came to visit me here in the San Francisco area a few weeks ago. He has AT&T and I have Verizon. I used to have AT&T in 2003 but I switched because the service sucked. But I had wondered if 4 years later if it was as bad as it was then. it was.
Everywhere we went I had signal and Phil didn't I remember that I used to have trouble getting calls in my apartment and he had the exact same problem. I can drive from san Francisco to San Jose down 280 and not lose the call. He can't. We even hiked in Yosemite and for 2/3rds of the hike I has signal. He only had signal when he was at Yosemite Lodge. Town after town I could make calls and he couldn't.
So even if the IPhone is great it's only going to be as great as AT&T. If they can't get signal then they can't make calls or surf the web. IPhone users migh find that all they have is a fat calculator. It will be interesting to see if people are actually happy with it once they buy it.
Letter to the Editor
The announcement by Vice President Cheney that he is not part of the executive branch of government is going to be another burden on the school systems because text books will have to be rewritten. States that passed laws to remove evolution from science books and those who want to teach "Creation Science" and "Intelligent Design" will now have to revise text books so they can teach that the Vice President is not part of the Executive Branch of government.
After all "Checks and Balances" is just a theory because if there really were checks and balances in the Constitution the Congress wouldn't sit back and let Cheney declare he is above the law and get away with it. I think that Nancy Pelosi's decision to declare impeachment is off the table is as outrageous as Cheney's decision. Impeachment isn't an option. Impeachment is a duty the Congress is required to perform when Bush and Cheney declare themselves kings.