10 reasons I'm buying my first iPhone

1. There's a critical mass of cool new apps that can't be ignored for sheer productivity.
2. I would stick with open standards if phones based on them offered all these cool new apps, but they don't.
3. People who insist on dissing the iPhone now remind me of people who rejected the IBM PC in favor of S-100 bus systems running CP/M. They said standards were better, but they lost that argument.
4. My wife River has let me see all the good and bad of the iPhone as one of the earliest adopters, and I like what I see, mostly.
5. Apple fixed some things that needed fixing, such as: now you can invite people to meetings from within the iPhone's calendar, instead of having to do it from Apple iCal or (shudder) Microsoft Outlook.
6. AT&T offers cheaper service for two under the Family Plan.
7. Google's Android promises more freedom but less privacy.
8. I can now lobby hard for a more open iPhone; before, I was just an outside heckler.
9. I don't have time to roll my own solutions to the extent I would have had to without the iPhone.
10. My existing phone is a piece of worn-out junk that barely makes calls anymore!