The path from engineering to marketing is usually not a straight line. Often there can be many stops along the way, as a product goes from idea to a spec to prototype release build, through the quality assurance process, and eventually general availability to the marketplace.

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For more than a year after iPhone was available to the public, I held off on buying one. I made all these excuses–that my BlackBerry was “good enough,” that work was paying my monthly bills, that I was concerned about lackluster Exchange support, or switching to AT&T (T) . I now know that I was naive, for my time as an iPhone owner has convinced me that there is no need for any other phones to be on this market. Be they Blackberry, of the Android persuasion, Nokia (NOK) or any other, they simply aren’t the iPhone, and they never will be.

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