Man I know four people who have had the iPhones lost or stolen in the last week or two and let me tell you, it is a bad time to have an iPhone stolen. They’re all suffering from iPhone withdrawal,trying to make it to July 11. It’s bad. It’s funny, too, because Apple clearly has a store of them – another friend of mine had her iPhone break, and she went to the store and the genius opened up a drawer and had a whole batch of 1st gen iPhones for repair swapout.

There should be some sort of program (he says, half facetiously) where if you can prove you owned an iphone, you can get another one in the interim. Or something. I understand Steve’s obsession with low inventories and no obsolete devices in the storerooms, but I think he took it a bit far this time. He literally took the hottest consumer electronics product out of the market for two full months. This is sort of unprecedented, isn’t it? I can’t think of any other example of it.

In any case, hold on to your iPhones, man. It’s a jungle out there without them.