So, for the first time since 1999, Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest was won by an american! Joey Chestnut (for real? What an awesome name for the american winning back the belt!) at 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes vs a measly 63 for Takeru Kobayashi! Kobayashi, despite having a wisdom tooth pulled and diagnosed [...]

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I just went to the AT&T store with Scott so he could see his site on the iPhone. They now have the demo unit up by the front with an older security guy, sitting by it giving everyone their allotted time with the device. He’d periodically give some helpful pointers if he thought you had [...]

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Ok, it’s been awhile and I’ve been going through some iPhone posting withdrawal so I thought I’d post this little train of thought I was having. I mean, with all the analysts breathlessly one-up’ing each other with their number sold the first weekend (the highest I’ve seen is now 700,000, do I hear a million??) [...]

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Art for Mondays.
It may come as no surprise that the iPhone sold pretty well this weekend. Official numbers from Apple don’t seem to be available but analysts are making their estimates known. Global Equities Research said that Apple sold around 200,000 phones in the first 24 hours - he makes the very specific statement that [...]

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Ran some errands and happened to stop by the Union Sq. AT&T store, you know, just because I was in the neighborhood. They were sold out (I think most AT&T’s were) - had about 100 in stock (typical for AT&T’s) and not everyone in line got one. Two groups were there with their iPhones, I [...]

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Well, the day has come and gone and now everyone who wants an iPhone can have one. Some AT&T’s are sold out, but Apple stores everywhere still have them in stock. Jobs wasn’t kidding when he said he wasn’t worried about inventory - the tip off was the 2 per person rule. Those guys who [...]

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Ok, it’s the big day, what can I do? This’ll be quick roundup.
First, this is actually really funny - Steven Levy (he wrote the newsweek iPhone review) was apparently mugged for his iPhone as he was going to demo his phone to the unwashed hordes in line at the midtown Apple store. Mugged! The guy, [...]

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Well, as commented yesterday, our secret agent - codenamed “the Howard” - passed off to me a very early prototype iPhone. I share now with you the pictures of the unboxing and then some basic observations.

As you can see this is a very early prototype. What I find most interesting is that they must have [...]

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Ok, it’s the day before the big day. I’m horrified to say that I don’t personally know anyone who’s going to get one tomorrow and bring it over to my place for me to see. WTF? What do I pay you guys for? Ben?? Howard??
Well, anyways… there’s some people writing some stuff about the [...]

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I was checking out TUAW’s post on the 8 apps they’d want on the iPhone. I, being little more than a blogging copy cat, decided to make my own list to see how that’d work out (although I’m certainly no stranger to lists of 8). I don’t care what apps they are - existing or [...]

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