Readers of this blog will know that I hate Best Buy with a passion; I think their business practices are downright shady, and their customer service non-existent, so it pains me to find out that Best Buy will be a third party retailer of the iPhone 3G. For Apple, this is a major win for them; AT&T and Apple Stores already do their share of selling through inventory of iPhone 3G very quickly, but Best Buy is everywhere, and I suspect the iPhone 3G will perform just as well at Best Buy.
Of course, I think Best Buy will be the only place that you can get an extended warranty for your iPhone 3G that isn't Applecare. If anything, having one more location to sell iPhone 3Gs may actually help quicken the queues at the Apple and AT&T stores.
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