I-don't.

And I-can't. Bring myself to spend five-or-six-hundred bucks for one, that is.

I was one of the last kids on my block to get a computer and a cell phone. And I know why.

I'm still annoyed over 8-tracks. Yes, I know I should have gotten over it by...oh...1972.
But in high school, I sank a lot of money into all those Three Dog Night, Grassroots, Cat Stevens and Four Tops 8-tracks. Got a nice player installed in my mother's '68 Dodge Coronet, too.

And then...it was all obsolete. The future was in cassette tapes. Of course it was. As it turns out, the "future" doesn't last that long.
So I was late to cassettes...and late to CDs, too.

But I'm getting better. I embraced iTunes fairly quickly. And the funny thing is that buying a single on iTunes in 2007 costs exactly the same amount I paid for the first "45" I ever bought in 1962: 99 cents. (For the record, it was "Sherry" by the Four Seasons...before Frankie Valli got top billing. Bought it at Patruno's Variety Store, next to Saxonville School in beautiful Framingham, Massachusetts.)
And after careful deliberation, I jumped into digital photography with both feet. Even bought a Photoshop program and a scanner to archive old pictures.

So I won't judge those who have lined up for days to buy an I-Phone. They look very cool, and they also serve as an I-Pod and Web browser, among other functions.
I suspect they will be in limited supply for a while, and many of these people will turn around and sell them on eBay for three times the price.

As for me, my regular old cell phone will do. I only use a fraction of my bargain basement 300-minute-a-month plan, and besides, I like being unavailable and out-of-touch for a little while each day.
The few people who might actually need me always know how or where to find me anyway.

And looking back to those 8-tracks, it dawns on me. I'm STILL sick of "Joy to the World."