Old enough to remember buying an original iPhone in 2007 for $499 only for Apple to give me a $100 gift card because they eliminated that model 3 months later and slashed the price of the $599 model to $399.

Young enough to type this on my $1299 iPhone 14 Pro. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/technology/07apple.html

@searls "Steven P. Jobs" makes it sound like a parody news story

@chiaberry in fairness to the author, it was his name.

@searls I remember bootlegging an original iPhone, and paying a guy to unlock it. Wasn’t officially available in 🇨🇦. But if you brought in an unlocked one, Rogers (cell service provider) had a plan all set up for it 😆

@wndxlori I didn't know this!