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Man I know four people who have had the iPhones lost or stolen in the last week or two and let me tell you, it is a bad time to have an iPhone stolen. They’re all suffering from iPhone withdrawal,trying to make it to July 11. It’s bad. It’s funny, too, because Apple clearly has a store of them – another friend of mine had her iPhone break, and she went to the store and the genius opened up a drawer and had a whole batch of 1st gen iPhones for repair swapout.

There should be some sort of program (he says, half facetiously) where if you can prove you owned an iphone, you can get another one in the interim. Or something. I understand Steve’s obsession with low inventories and no obsolete devices in the storerooms, but I think he took it a bit far this time. He literally took the hottest consumer electronics product out of the market for two full months. This is sort of unprecedented, isn’t it? I can’t think of any other example of it.

In any case, hold on to your iPhones, man. It’s a jungle out there without them.

Marilyn visited the Barbarians @ The Roosevelt Hotel today. She lives here as a ghost you know. Here she is with Kim

Okay! Now that Cannnes is over, we have some big news for you!

The Barbarian Group is supremely happy to announce that one Mr. Noah Brier has joined the company as our Head of Planning and Strategy. Noah is a good friend of ours, we’ve known him for a while now and are super happy to have him on board full time.

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Oh dear lord please let it be true. MMS on the iPhone right now is about the worst usability nightmare imaginable. You get a text message with an unclickable URL, and a username and password, both impossible to copy and paste into the fields in Safari. There is no reason for it. It’s awful.

Please please please let this rumor be true so I can see all the baby pictures my family members are always sending me instead of me faking it.