Regardless of the reason for the continuing delay of the GN it does reach a saturation point. Different people have different tolerances to anything from pain to pleasure. I know many will argue Verizon has never "announced" a release date but from their own employees across the US, they have missed target dates.
Yes you can photoshop almost anything but the 9th was as close to a firm date as we and their employees and sellers had. When that evaporated and the 15th began coming out of VZW employees mouths, it is pretty obvious that is(was?) the new target date.
Again, I wont debate semantics but the anything but professional way VZW has handled this affair shows that what Verizon employees read to you from their VZW terminals (which has been the 15th) is not a rumor. It isn't an announcement but again, as close as VZW has come.
That said, if VZW cans another target date without justification to their customer base, they are courting financial issues long term. If you follow the stock market, notice the dip from their last blown target date. More personally important to me is what I said to begin with.
I am past the excitement, past the wow factor and have realized that it nor any other electronic item ever lives up to the hype surrounding it. I know a lot of you may say that's silly or VZW wouldn't risk such a move or whatever but remember this - NO matter how big they may be, they are made up of people.
People are petty (including me for sure) so by rationale, corporations are then petty. For me the self imposed drop dead wait of this next week is just that, self imposed. But at some point, many of you will also say "No mas" as well. It is kind of sad to think of hundreds of GN's that could have been the highlight of many of our personal Christmas' sitting in inventory never to be the flagship it was designed to be.
But sometimes life is like that. Just because we want something to be with all our emtions doesn't mean it will materialize or if it does, not in the same fashion we had envisioned. I want to be wrong but regardless of my inner geek screaming for a GN or two, some times you have to decide to move on and hope for something better to come along sooner than later.
