This week the iPhone goes on sale in Canada, officially, for the first time. Too bad most of the people who should be excited about it, myself among them, are pissed. Apparently, so is Apple. The fan-sites are abuzz with a rumor that Rogers is getting "significantly" less iPhones than originally planned for the launch as punishment for pissing off so many potential customers.

Instead Apple is rumored to be diverting units to Europe where the rate plans and data packages are actually decent and affordable. They also don't have massive online petititions and almost-daily negative media coverage over there. As of this morning, there were nearly 43,000 names on the RuinediPhone.com petition. On July 11, the date of the launch, every name and comment on the petition will be printed out and delivered to Rogers' head office. The fact that this initiative has garnered over 40 thousand names in a single week is both amazing and somewhat disconcerting.

As an aside: the RuinediPhone site became so popular in just one week that it has already sold out to been acquired by a web marketing company with a very slimey slick name called Oilchange.com, who are no doubt thrilled to get access to all those email addresses.

So now the real countdown begins. It's only 5 days till the iPhone 3G goes on sale, and my name is number 15 on the "reserved" list at the local Rogers store. I still don't know if I'll actually buy one on launch day though... I totally want the device, and it's even related to my job, but it's overpriced and politically-charged. What should I do?!?