Okay Apple, I realize I should have given you more time, but you’re going to have to perform with the time alloted.  It’s time for me to buy a new cellphone.

 

I’m going to set a deadline of Tuesday, September 5, 2006 to release the iPhone.  (Why Tuesday?  Because Apple product launches are frequently on Tuesdays.)  Otherwise, I’ll have gone without a phone long enough and will have to give in and buy something.

 

You can call it an iPhone.  You can call it an iChat Mobile if you like.  Just make it simple as dirt.  I’m tired of having to go through a series of bizarre menus to find my voice mail.  I’m tired of accidentally setting the phone into speakerphone mode and not knowing how to switch it off.  I’m tired of awful annoying ringtones.  I’m tired of all the extra features I couldn’t possibly want but I have to wade through.

 

The gauntlet has been thrown.  The challenge has been made.  Give us an iPhone by Sep. 5.