Penned Thoughts

It was on Monday 8 June 2009 that Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing (boy, is that a mouthful!) Philip W. Shiller stood up on stage at the Worldwide Developers’ Conference in San Francisco and introduced the iPhone 3GS and announced that it would be available in “the rest of the world” in August this year. A screenshot of the slide in question has been published above for the sake of posterity.

August is gone and it’s September now and we’ve still seen hide nor hair of the iPhone 3GS. Neither anyone at Apple India nor their carrier partners Airtel and Vodafone have anything to say on the subject. We, the citizens of Argentina, Botswana, Brazil, Cameroon, Central Africa, Chile, Ecuador, Egypt, Guinea, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Niger, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela, demand to know when we’ll finally get the iPhone 3GS.

I can kinda see why they don’t care two hoots about these markets though. Apple’s flagship product has been delayed by at least a whole month in 32 countries and, leave aside a mass outpouring of bad press, there hasn’t even been a peep about it. No wonder Apple doesn’t take us seriously. They know that they can get away with anything.

But, damn it, I want my iPhone 3GS!

Aayush