You know, one of the difficulties in being a tech blogger/columnist/writer is that when something comes along that’s big news – like yesterday’s announcement of an actually-affordable iPhone with a 3G network and enterprise application support (specifically, Microsoft Exchange and Cisco IPsec VPN,) everyone else has already covered it to death. 

Seriously, Network World.  Did we really need three front-page stories on the new iPhone?  Three?  Four if you count that duplicated story?

There’s no doubt that iPhone’s new enterprise integration is big news – in fact, we covered it when it was first announced in March.  So we could go over the implications of consumer devices on the enterprise network, but we’ve already done so.  Repeatedly. 

Anyway, with stories about the iPhone already coming up as #1 on the google search for “Jesus Phone,” I don’t think I have anything insightful to add about its second coming.  So I won’t. 

Okay, maybe this one troubling tidbit from Matt Buchanan at Gizmodo:

Supposedly the network will be ready, even if the supply won't be. I asked him four different ways if it was ready for the onslaught of millions of 3G data phones and he said "absolutely" each time, and that they've planned for it. What's unclear is how many units they've planned for the first day. He said they expected "high" demand but nobody knows what the "full demand" will be, in response to my question about meeting demand.

Discuss?