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...year. Searches for the iPhone first peaked in January of this year as Steve Jobs uncharacteristically pre-announced the new device at the annual MacWorld Conference. Searches began ramping again the first week of June, in anticipation of last week's release. During that time, iPhone has surpassed iPod searches, which for most of the last three years held the distinction as the most searched for electronic device on the Internet...
...used to be. Many academics lament poetry's decline in readership. Who says poetry should be read? The presentation of poetry in written form has declined, not the art form itself. If you want to experience contemporary poetry in its most vibrant and living form, just plug in your iPod or check out Poetry Out Loud, the recitation contest for high school students. Poetry is alive and well; you just have to listen for it. Thomas A. Hauck, Gloucester, Massachusetts...
...stipulated that every gadget reviewer is entitled to his or her personal iPhone quibble. Here's mine: when you're transferring content from your computer to the iPhone, you can't simply drag and drop tracks into the phone, in that richly satisfying way you did with your iPod. Moving music and video around is a matter of instructing iTunes to 'sync' the iPhone with one more playlists. The procedure feels clumsy and imprecise - you can't just spear a specific little chunk of content, like a canape with a toothpick, and chuck it into the device for later consumption...
...counterpart at Newsweek, Steven Levy, being interviewed on Fox News when a passerby jumped him on live TV and tried to wrestle the iPhone out of his hand. One wonders if the incredible frenzy over the iPhone signals a sea change in Apple's brand identity. The iPod was the accessory of the hip cognoscenti. Will the pricey, sought-after iPhone become a mere status symbol, the kind of thing that marks you as an overpaid Wall Street jerkwad...
Cold fusion would be great too, but you know what? Nobody cares. Steve Jobs has said, repeatedly, that this is the best iPod that Apple has ever made, and it is. It's also the best phone that anybody has ever made...