Madplanet

Ohayo, iPhone

God bloody damn it. There I was last week, idly speculating about when the 3G iPhone’d be out in Japan and moaning with friends about how Softbank’s network was a bit iffy but maybe get one as a second phone with a data package to try it out, and so on and so forth.

And then this morning I skim through the blogs of Jobs’ keynote and nanoseconds later find myself roving Apple’s Japan site searching for something to click that will let me buy one. I am reduced to a redly glistening hunk of gadget need. And yet they tell me that not only can I not buy, or even pre-order; I must on July 11 go to a Softbank Mobile retail outlet in person and buy. I feel like my name is Petrelli and the redneck-looking exploding guy just came and stood next to me. Must. Calm. Down.