Someone said this further proves how adverse to technology Roger was, but I digress...
I, for one, welcome Roger's resistance to our new robot overlords.
I dunno whether Drew was aware Roger kept the phone sealed for 16 years.
It sounds as if Roger wasn't aware he kept the phone sealed for 16 years.
But the original iPhone was about $500. If I give you something that expensive and I find out you're keeping it sealed and then sell it, I'd be a little insulted.
Collectors be collectors, and Steve Jobs bred some of the best for his products. I suppose the reason somebody would fork over the cash for this is the same reason some of us around here fork over cash for old game show props on eBay: People consider it worth that much to oneself (Would an iPhone 1 even work today?), and again, it doesn't read to me that Roger was hanging onto this hoping to score big bucks someday. It sounds like he threw it in a drawer and forgot about it until he found it again and realized it was worth something (though why he would make a point of saying he moved it from a drawer to a safe is the one part that does scream poor form, I suppose, if you're against holding onto unopened gifts and selling them at a profit on the collectors market. The length of time it lived in a safe after living in a drawer is a length of time which we do not know to be days, months or years or whatever).
I applaud him. What's that old saying about one person's trash and another person's treasure?
Also, in other news,
the Plinko sign just sold at auction for 770 bucks more than Roger's iPhone. Makes me wonder if Roger just bought himself the memorabilia of the century for a mere $770.
/Meanwhile, I use a rotary phone at home, which I have made made fully functional through a dumbphone using Bluetooth. Visitors get a real kick out of it.
