Tonight a couple of dear friends of mine — Costanza and his Dad — went to Toronto the Apple Store. Both of them are Mac heads, and they wanted to get their Family Pack upgrade for the touted Leopard operating system. It sounded like a good excuse to enjoy downtown Toronto, so I tagged along. Personally I will take any excuse to touch, feel, or otherwise grope a Mac. The minute I can afford one, Windows is bye-bye forever.
We arrived at the Eatons Center store, only to find a sizable line that only got longer once we had taken our place in it. By casual estimation, I think it would be safe to say there were anywhere between five hundred and seven hundred people standing in a single-file line waiting for the store to open at 6pm so they could obtain their copy of Leopard. However, as you might imagine, with a few hundred rabid Mac users in close proximity to each other, conversations are sure to strike up. Let me tell you, the topic of conversation was not Leopard. The topic of conversation was the iPhone and it’s mutated half-brother the iPod Touch.
The guy behind me had one. Costanza probably knows more about this than I do, but he said that somehow he had it on the Fido network with prepaid cards instead of under a contract. He whipped it out several times and then got into a deep conversation with the fellow “two behind” me who was a Rogers employee who seemed to have some limited knowledge of the Canadian launch (much more knowledge than the Apple Store employees had, or would admit to.)
We were roughly #150 in the line, and we got into the store in the third “shift” of people who were allowed into the store. Once the line started moving it really wasn’t bad at all. Matt and Ken got their Leopard upgrade, and the three of us got t-shirts packaged in the spiffy translucent Apple “backpack” bags. The day wasn’t a total write-off after all.
So here I sit browsing the web before I call it a night and what do I find but an article about the iPhone launch in Canada, and the “non-announcement” Rogers made recently. (Coming from a corporate entity composed of non-brains, this hardly seems surprising.) Amongst the speculation as to why we don’t have the iPhone in Canada was one juicy little tidbit. At the price we pay for data service in Canada, operating an iPhone would cost in the neighbourhood of $700 a month. NO THANKS!
Maybe the arrival of the iPhone will spell a new dawn for data pricing in Canada. One can only hope. In the meantime, I’m sticking with my crappy 1X Samsung.
Can I have the backpack????
mommabeart
October 27th, 2007
To put my ‘headphones’ in
mommabeart
October 27th, 2007