Picture if you will…

People around the world are lined up in anticipation of the upcoming release of the iPhone 3G. Meanwhile, those of us with our second generation phones are fervently clicking the ‘Check for Update” button in iTunes after spending the previous afternoon browsing the AppStore and downloading our favorites.

Finally this morning around 9AM, the 5th click on the update button caused my heart to skip a beat… Version 2.0 is here! It’s finally here!!! Chants of “Huzzah!” ring through the office as all of the have-iPhones prepare to update and rub all of the iPhone-have-not’s noses in the ease of the update and the cool new toys that we’ll all have (in the traditional iPhone smugness reserved for such occasions). A few even throw the gauntlet down in preparation for a Saber Battle.

Then, a dark cloud descends over the crowd as one-by-one, the horror sets in. Through the din of whispered “WTF!” - we all realize that our phones are BRICKED! I felt like Cindy Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas watching iPhone-have-nots smugly making phone calls on their plain ‘ol phones.

Way to go Apple… Probably the most highly anticipated software update to-date, and you shoot yourself in the foot… How very Windows Vista of you. Hopefully you’ll figure it out, or at least give us an idea of when we can have our phones back (at the time of this post, this was the top story on Apple’s Hot News.

Sadly, our epic Saber Battle will have to wait.