Some idiot gets quoted in the Irish Times:
Third in the line was Matt Johnston, a 35-year-old self-confessed “computer geek” from Belfast. “A nice bit of kit,” he said, after buying the iPhone.
Whatever about the quiet level of interest last night, this is the future, according to Johnston.
“Look, in 10 years’ time having an iPhone will be the same as having a watch. You’ll look strange if you don’t have one.”
That’s a bit of paraphrasing. What I said was that if you don’t have a phone like an iPhone then you’ll look strange. That includes all sorts of smartphone obviously. As people in the UK are now considering SMS texts as part of their normal communication, in ten years we’ll all be connected…
The turnout was lukewarm in Belfast but it wasn’t bad chatting to the people there. You have to remember there’s 280 million people in the US and less than a quarter of that in the UK. And there’s only 1.5 million people in Northern Ireland. iPhone will sell in the hundreds or thousands in Northern Ireland, not the millions.