A little comma-doctoring for the WaPo

Betting on Hype Tech
I have to get in a little comma-doctoring now and then, and when one of the nation's major dailies gives me the opportunity in the lead sentence of a Page 1 story, I simply won't resist it.

By Kim Hart and Tomoeh Murakami Tse
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 1, 2007; Page F01

For the giddy Apple groupies who spent hours, or days, in line for an iPhone, it all came down to the final reward: snagging a new technology for $600 that has yet to prove itself.

So, how does $600 prove itself, really? Or perhaps they meant to say, "snagging a new technology that has yet to prove itself, for $600." Maybe even, "snagging, for $600, a new technology that has yet to prove itself."

Ya think? I personally would dump the snazzy "snagging" and go with "spending $600 on a new technology that has yet to prove itself." But that's just me, and that lead sentence is supposed to be catchy.