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Dear Steve

I give up. I have waited patiently for you to sign up with Verizon so that I could get an iPhone, but again, you let me down. I’m not switching to AT&T because service is more important than device for me. So yesterday when my telephone failed, not just my telephone, but my mother’s that I used as a bridge when mine failed to when I would be buying my iPhone, I had to bite…

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I am an anachronism

Sitting in Cafe Gitane on Mott Street having breakfast, I noticed 16 other people sitting, couples, friends, soon to be couples, all engaged in talking nonstop but also engaged in their iPhones. A couple across from me in their thirties, him wearing the type of hat my father would have worn, looking into their iPhones. The men in front of me, in their thirties, friends or going to be a couple, hard to say, nonstop…

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When Verizon gets the iPhone

I’m sitting here waiting to throw my old Blackberry and my old Samsung phone into the bayou. I’m waiting and waiting and waiting. What I’m waiting for is for Verizon to start selling iPhone which I hear will happen this fall. But what am I really missing? I see so many iPhone users with their eyes staring at the little screen, absorbed with their apps, and GPS, and other moving features that I wonder if…

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