Ben Brooks:

I’ve owned every iPhone since then, and I still have them all. My original iPhone is gone, but we still have Erin’s original iPhone. All the iPhones still get used everyday except that old original phone.

I remember calling my mother the night before the iPhone launch to get her advice about whether or not I should spend $599 on a cell phone. I should have expected her response — “you’re going to buy it anyway, might as well get it on the first day” (paraphrasing, of course, it has been seven years).

I ended up at my local Cingular store at 11:00am and waited in line seven hours to buy my first iPhone. I’ve purchased an iPhone every other year since then and don’t expect that habit to change for many years to come.