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As you might know, Macworld opened in SF today. From early morning me and Aidan were checking Apple’s website every half an hour to be the first to see new gadgets. I don’t know why now. It was still a night in San Francisco… So it was a bit silly of us, but still funny:)

Everything was pointing to the fact Steve Jobs was going to present much rumored and speculated iPhone. So we were very impatient to see it. After refreshing apple’s website a number of times I decided to play a joke on Aidan :) I made a screenshot of Apple home page, google for some nice picture of what-could-be an iPhone and mocked the page up in Photoshop, so it looked quite realistic. And then at certain moment I turned to Aidan, punched him and said with a certain excitement in my voice : “Oh look! It’s there! The iPhone!” The dude went crazy :) He just had a quick glance at my monitor and turned back to his computer straight away. Opened Apple’s page. Still old page. Refreshed. Still the same. But then, I guess, he thought: “Probably it’s just cached…” He was so excited that did not bother himself to double check it but wrote a quick email to send around in the company.

I was like “Errr, Aidan… ahh… listen… Can you stop doing this… Err…” But he did not listen. Email was sent, and then he finally paid attention to me. I saw no point of playing the game any longer and revealed to him my dirty secret that I had made it all up. Poor Aidan.. I have never seen so much disappointment on his face :) And then realizing he was fooled, and fooled so badly he became so pissed… But sure, me and guys around were having a good laugh. And Aidan did not know what to do. To laugh with us or to continue being pissed? Don’t get me wrong, I love my man Aidan. Actually everyone in the company loves him. Of course when he is not a moody bastard he can be and he is sometimes. He always messes around with me (especially mocking me for my accent) and other guys, so it was such a great chance to strike back :)) As a matter of fact he was so pissed with that, that could not do anything for a while :)

And then in the end of a day we finally saw it. The iPhone. Ironically, as it often happens, we were so tired by the end of it, tired with our anticipation and … just tired, so did not really care much of it anymore. Only when I got home and checked back Apple’s website I could truly enjoy what I saw.. Well, I was not disappointed at all. I guess, it was everything you could possibly dream of (oh sorry, no, it does not fly..). So well done, Apple, who are on the edge of the design and technology again. Man, this company is becoming really huge. And I am really impressed with their new stuff. Well done! So now I guess we wait until summer to able to touch and to feel that toy :) An may be even buy it…

P.S. Oh yes, Aidan is planing his revenge now. And I must be very cautious. This guy is very, very smart..

P.S2. Check appleiphone.blogspot.com, there are some really nice concepts of iPhone sumbitted by different people.