[jinushaun]

Clearly these people did not see the same Jan 2007 demo that I did. Grown men were going apeshit in the audience and millions around the world were glued to their computer frantically refreshing live blogs. My entire office officially stopped working to "watch" the keynote. Hundreds of thousands were already talking about dropping Verizon for the iPhone. Hindsight is 20/20, but no one in their right mind would've predicted it would fail. Apple sealed the deal when they finally subsidized the iPhone in Sep 2007.