That is all, thank you.

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• I waited in line from about 7:20 AM until 12:15 PM at The Grove in Los Angeles
• I bought my phone and had instant activation
• I had to go to the office, back up my old iPhone, then restore it to my new one, which took forever, then I had a lot of work to do, so I haven’t even really played with it for more than a couple of hours
• I already sold my iPhone on ebay for $360 and I’m leaving town tomorrow, so I HAD to get one today. The die was cast last week. Oooops.

Notes and Analysis

• 3g reception SUCKS at home
• 3g reception SUCKS client1 location
• I have to turn OFF 3G when at home or at the client I spend the most time at, therefore it’s mostly useless. SUCK.
• The apps are awesome, as they were when I downloaded them on my 2g iPhone yesterday
• Apps are much much snappier on the 3g iPhone, it’s very noticable
• 3G is fast. <3
• GPS is sweet (largeley the reason I upgraded). Pulsating dot follows really close to my location on google maps while driving. Hope it’s still legal in CA to not watch the road while driving.
• The wait on line was awful, it barely moved for the first few hours due to activation issues, much coverage else where, will not bother discussing here
• The nice Apple Store employees were handing out doughnuts, coffee, water and ice pops. Very classy!
• The executive from (unnamed major resturaunt chain) standing behind me got to CUT TO THE FRONT AS SOON AS THE LINE STARTED MOVING. BULLSHIT.

Stuff I want:

• One click button to switch between 2g/3g
• MMS
• My cat to stop playing with my earbuds
• The 5 hours I spent on line back

Final Thoughts:

• I hate AT&T and Apple for blowing my morning by not being better prepared. Hate.
• I feel *really* bad for @driveafastercar - she’s on hour 13 waiting in line.
• The last time I waited in line like this was for Grateful Dead tickets. The next time will be when Jerry rises from the grave or when hell frezes over.
• If you have iPhone 2g don’t bother upgrading unless you’re a *serious* geek.
• If you don’t have an iPhone already, get one as soon as the hype boils down. You’ll love it.
• If you’re Steve Jobs avoid me.

This blog is splitting up! Moving forward, my personal blog will reside at “mostlyrelated.com,” while “ericschlissel.com” will be focused on the business of social media.

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1. Don’t run out of food so early
2. Vet your speakers
3. Break up the speakers into two sets instead of having them all at once
4. Make peoples names larger on the name tags
5. “Ask me about” should be better phrased on the website (so you dont end up with “Ask me about Ask me about blah blah blah”
6. Add more interactive features, laser tag was cool - there should be more like that
7. Give people more to discuss so it doesn’t turn into yet another mixer

With a few minor tweaks it will be even better next time. I’ll certainly be there.

You’re welcome.

The last time the headphones broke off I meandered to the Apple store and bought a brand spanking new iPhone for $399. Brilliantly Apple created a recessed headphone jack, which I assume was a calculated move to prevent this same issue. They must have done their homework, I thought.

Todays announcement that the iPhone 3G will have a flush headphone jack is very bad news for consumers and Apple itself. It will diminish the end-user experience, significantly increase returns and support calls, while destroying their 90% satisfaction rate. I’ll go even further and bet that it affects their supplies of the unit and even their stock price. OK, I’m going out on a limb, but if the stock dropped the stock today because there was a lack of “one more things,” imagine what will happen when the return rate of iPhones is higher than first generation Xboxes. Class action lawsuit anyone?

This isn’t just a few people, as it was with the Treo. Both the iPhone and the Touch will have this jack, and they’re the high-end iPods consumers will salivate for, especially at the new price point. I’d like to assume Apple had an actuary and a QA team work through the numbers and issues, but they’ve dropped the ball before with the iPhone (the $200 price drop and ensuing lack of damage control comes to mind). I hope Apple knows how many replacement iPhones they’ll be dishing out when everyone’s headphones break off and understand the repercussions. If not, this is very bad news indeed.

PS. People on Twitter and FriendFeed are asking who will upgrade the day it comes out. Upgrade at your own risk.

I’ve attended your conferences, most recently Digital Hollywood LA 08 and this week I hung around Advertising NY 08 . You

1. Hire a web design firm, not your nephew
2. Have an easy-to-read schedule
3. Hire a program design firm
4. Don’t use an “interactive program” on your website if you don’t bother testing it first
5. Have a conference theme, or at least a message
6. Stop overloading your panels - 3 or 4 high-value panelists and a moderator are enough
7. Make sure your vendors wait until after the final panel before breaking down their booths - its insulting to the panelists to show up while everyone’s leaving (which they did, and they were)
8. Make up real badges instead of Dymo-produced stickers
9. Extend cocktails, have them on both days. Some of my best contacts have been made over drinks. OK, maybe this one is just about me.
10. Finally, hire a damn web design firm, the industry is laughing at you.

I’m sure I’ll still come to your next event to network, which is why I love you, but you need to change.

Yours truly,

Eric Schlissel

• FriendFeed is superior yet complementry to Twitter. I dont Tweet much, so using FF suits me much better than Twitter.
• I now associate Ariel Waldman with “whore” because she insisted on making a huge deal about a minor issue, and now people like me who have never heard of her, now have a negative association with her name. Great case study in personal brand management gone wrong - there is such thing as bad press.
• Table 8 is over-rated
• It’s time to lose those last 10 lbs.
• Weezer is a hip band.
• Data portability came a long way of the last few weeks with Friend Connect, et. al. however it does seem that we’ve all got a lot of questions to answer as a community. Arrington calls the solution “The Centralized Me” and astutely forecasted the existing situation.
• ReadWriteWeb continues to grow on me as a news and commentary source
• Twitter being down isn’t funny, but the reaction by its users is.
• I clearly need a better WP theme and better lifestream integration. Barthelme is not cutting it.

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