Left: my photo of Apple Birmingham as it opened to sell the iPhone Duo. Right: this article. Using split screen on an iPhone Duo.
It was the pre-order failure that really sold me. I'd spent weeks figuring out the finances to buy an iPhone Duo and had set up the pre-order perfectly, but it went wrong.
I had got onto the online Apple Store unusually quickly, and pressed that Buy button unusually smugly, but it didn't work. Instead of buying the phone, it reset my entire pre-order so that it just forgot the crucial trade-in, it forgot the financing I'd set up.
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