The line for the Apple Store in San Francisco is apparently going strong and features among those waiting for their crack at the glossy gadget that could a circus freak, a hairdresser and… MERLIN MANN (of 43folders and 5ives).

I’ll be heading out tomorrow to check the lines at at least one of the Denver-area Apple Stores.  Not because I want an iPhone, but out of pure, morbid, curiosity.

Honestly, while I think the iPhone will represent a “new era” of user-interface goodness in the cell phone space, I really can’t see it as the complete end-all, be-all solution that would necessitate camping out all night for a chance at one.  The biggest criticism I have for the iPhone is the same one most of the reviewers mentioned… the Cingular AT&T network.  Between slow as molasses EDGE and a bottom-rating in signal quality (confirmed by my experience here in the Mile-High City… that’s Denver for the geographically un-gifted) the iPhone’s cellular partner may prove to be its biggest handicap. That doesn’t mean a billion people will buy them, they most certainly will and it will be a success.

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