[apple007]

Speaking as a self-employed businessman, I've been waiting years for iPhone. In fact, I've been going month-to-month with Verizon since early '05 for exactly that reason.

As for the success of iPhone, I don't understand how anyone can look at the early projections and not see "success" written all over iPhone. A survey I read last week said huge numbers of people are interested in iPhone even at the current prices, and interest doubled or tripled when the price was reduced by $100 or $200.

Further, Cingular reportedly has over a million people on their iPhone contact list some 2 months before the phone even ships. Unless this thing is shown to cause cancer or weighs 14 pounds, I can't see how it's not a smash hit from Day 1.