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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
It lives up to every bit of hype — Amazing device. Amazing line. Steve Jobs showed up, unfortunately that was after we had left the store but we saw him arrive and walk into the store (he walked to the store from his home). — Also joining us in line was Andy Hertzfeld in addition to Bill Atkinson, who I talked about earlier.
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David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone First Impressions — It was difficult, but I finally tore myself away from playing with my 8GB iPhone to put together a First Impressions post. I tried touching on a few things that we might not have discussed before, or at least things that I particularly appreciate that might …
CNET News.com:
iPhone supply lives to sell another day — Long lines for Apple's iPhone moved quickly Friday evening on both coasts, as the general public finally got its hands on what is perhaps the most hyped gadget in tech history. — In both New York and San Francisco, lines that had stretched …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Long-Awaited iPhone Goes on Sale — Apple wanted a spectacle when the iPhone went on sale this evening, and it got just that. — Customers eager to be among the first to buy the long-awaited cellphone waited in long lines in front of Apple stores in New York and other cities.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Will the iPhone violate GPL 3? — You have to feel a little sorry for the Free Software Foundation, which launched the first overhaul of its General Public License (GPL) in 16 years on the same day that Apple's iPhone launch hogged the spotlight. — But the foundation, like everybody and his brother …
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Joshua Gay / FSF:
iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them — On Friday, June 29, not everyone in the continental U.S. will be waiting in line to purchase a $500 iPhone. In fact, hundreds of thousands of digital aficionados around the globe won't be standing in line at all, for June 29 marks the release …
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
iPhone teardown reveals better-than-iPod construction (photos) — A disassembly of the iPhone immediately after its public launch has revealed small, but useful, information about the Apple handset's assembly. — Technicians at iFixit have dissected the device from front to back …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone first hands-on and unboxing — Say hello to iPhone. — (Don't go far, we're uploading more pictures every minute.)
Guy J Kewney / Newswireless.net headlines:
Ignore US launch: European Tri-iPhone launch will reveal 3G iPhone for Voda, T-Mobile and Carphone Warehouse — A new 3G (European) version of the iPhone will be launched Monday in the UK by Apple - in a join promotion with Vodafone, T-Mobile of Germany, and Carphone Warehouse.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Eventstreaming: The Seed Of A Revolution — An interesting thing happened during yesterdays iPhone launch and it wasn't just observing Robert Scoble's mastery of self promotion (in a good way of course). Thousands of people* who were not lining up for an iPhone, be that because they simply …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
CNN.com To Launch Web 2.0 Re-design This Weekend — Over the past year or so we've seen many mainstream publications 'web 2.0-ize' their web presence. BBC has been a leading force, while in March USA Today announced a re-design. Also we covered the Martha Stewart re-design in April.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
iPhone activations hosed until morning? — We've been hearing scattered reports some that newly-christened iPhone owners are having a heck of a time finalizing the activation process in iTunes. That sucks for a couple reasons: first, these puppies are darned near useless without being activated …
TED / uncov:
Kevin Rose: YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG — There's no way I could sleep tonight without ripping the s**t out of Pownce. The only thing that really irritates me about Pownce is that it has to exist on the same internet that I use. — Pownce is a web service that lets you "share stuff with your friends".
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Rise of the Rose Bashers? — A curious thing has happened with Kevin Rose's new startup Pownce: the Digg users really hate it. For a service whose success will rely on the founder's credentials and referring traffic over from the popular news site, that's a little worrying.
Associated Press:
AT&T Is Buying Oklahoma-Based Carrier — AT&T, the wireless carrier, agreed on Friday to acquire the rural wireless provider Dobson Communications Corporation for $2.8 billion in cash. — The offer of $13 a share adds about 1.7 million customers to AT&T's nearly 62 million …
