This is a bold statement from a lover of Apple products, but I have decided I need to go this route in order for me to be satisfied with the iPhone. A friend of mine, upon being asked to retell a joke or story, used to always say, “it’s too built up.” I feel this way about the iPhone, it’s too built up.

When 2/3 tech headlines are about one single product, I get a bit scared. Not that the iPhone won’t blow every other device out of the water, but it can’t make you walk on water (jesus phone anyone?). Don’t get me wrong, I definitely think that 75% of the hype surrounding this thing is 100% warranted, it does everything all of the other phones out there do, and it does it better.

Most of the hate I see out around the web are so niche and specific that I wonder if these people love to hate Apple like I love to love Apple. “It doesn’t do MS Exchange server, therefore it will be completely useless to the business world, therefore will flop.” “What does it do that my other device can’t do.”

To most of these people I want to say, does UI mean nothing to you? We’re on the verge of seeing one of the greatest UI’s ever released and people want to compare that to a blackberry, or some mobile windows platform? C’mon folks, let’s bring up the old mac versus pc debate and really ask ourselves if UI makes a difference. (Hint: it does)

But this post is really just an attempt by me to calm some of the hype. It’s a phone with a great UI. I can’t think of another phone I have ever seen where I would call a UI great. So in that department, it will be revolutionary.

Otherwise it will allow us to do the same things we always do, but be more free from the tethers of the computer.

Ok, I did a shit job of calming the hype. I’m excited as hell, I admit it.

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