Something I've spent a lot of time thinking about since the iPhone 7 reveal keynote is how difficult is it to write about these new hardware releases year over year, or get that excited for them anymore. I was one of the idiots standing in line for the original iPhone, and at the time, this (now infamous) quote from Steve Ballmer about it being "the most expensive phone in the world" was totally true-

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Since then, like many folks around here I'd imagine, I've been biting the bullet year over year to grab the new iPhone every launch day. It was easy to get supremely excited for the iPhone 3G as the achilles heel of the original iPhone was how slow Edge data speeds were which made consuming any kind of streaming media via cellular data really difficult. I remember being really blown away by being able to go from low bitrate music and Shoutcast streams (Wow, anyone remmeber those") to full bitrate, high quality Pandora [Free] feeds and it feeling like magic. The jump to the 3GS also felt significant, as the iPhone 3G was a little on the slow side- Particularly when juggling between big games or other resource-intensive third party apps. The 3GS felt blisteringly fast comparatively. The retina display on the iPhone 4 was something that was hard to believe until you saw it with your own eyes, but much like the first retina display iPad, it wouldn't be until the next revision that the super high-res screen would ha...