iPhone Geek
Posted by: Carl Smith on Sunday June 24, 2007
If you know Travis, you know he may be the biggest iPhone Geek on the planet. So he may smack me because this post isn’t about him.
Trey Harrell has been a friend for a long time, and has always been the go to source for anything Apple.
The other day I saw iphone-geek on Trey’s AIM away message and promptly sent it to Travis, as any good pusher would do for his junkie.
Trav said it was pretty cool, and he got his fix for the day.
Then when he went back the next day he said, “I think Trey started iPhone-Geek.”
Trav saw an interview with Trey on City Tools
Well, this morning Trey scored the front page of the sunday paper.
Way to go Treymon. And they call being obsessive-compulsive a disorder.
And keep your eyes open, I’m sure Travis will be launching www.imabiggeriphonegeekthantrey.com in the next few days.
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Trey
06.24.07 at 1:39pm
Woot, thanks for the plug!
You guys might consider dropping by the usability discussion, which is the sort of stuff that’s ultimately going to be ending up over there.
And for the record, I’m going for the 4gb, not the 8. That way if the wifey decides she wants one, the barrier for entry’s a little lower. Guess that doesn’t make for good drama, though.
Peace,
—T
Carl Smith
06.24.07 at 7:47pm
No worries, the plug is well deserved.
I am a little shocked by the 4gb confession, you truly love Amy. (Sniff sniff)
So what kind of traffic have you been getting?
Are you seeing the national hype cause a big increase in uniques from when you launched?
Trey Harrell
06.24.07 at 8:10pm
Why shocked about the 4 gig? I’ve got way too much music than would fit on an 8 and I already have an iPod. Not like you can install anything on the things at the moment.
Actually, I’m not really seeing much more traffic than if an article gets dugg 3 or 4 times. Maybe 120 uniques today, about par for the course on “high exposure” days.
Most of the sites that are out there are just regurgitating the same stuff (five sites removed from the source), so there’s a whole lot of noise and not much signal to be had at the moment.
I imagine that once the contract data pricing plans get officially announced later this week, we’ll be seeing a storm of activity, and Spidey Sense says it might just be ugly enough for me to pull the plug and forget this whole thing.
The question is: does AT&T;seriously think they can get away with gouging early iPhone adopters a 500% premium over what they charge Treo users? Do that math, that’s a $2500 premium with the (now sounding like it’s required again) two year contract lock-in over other “smart phones”.
If the plan comes in anywhere close to what’s being murmured right now, expect a backlash as big as the hype leading up to the launch. You heard it here first, true believers.
/irony
mirkob
07.02.07 at 5:01am
Hello from the iphoneeeeeeee.