If you want it to be you just drop out of school and do it, these people clearly don't have any jobs, or else they couldn't camp out that long....
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Campers Already Setting Up for iPhone 5S/5C Launch at Apple's Fifth Avenue Store
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If you want it to be you just drop out of school and do it, these people clearly don't have any jobs, or else they couldn't camp out that long....
MacRumors has a iPhone Lauch Meetups subforum – if it's not in there, it didn't happen.
In rather completely unrelated news, the number of homeless people in NYC just went up by ~5. I think that this is called the "balance of the universe".
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Nope. You couldn't be more wrong about what I wrote. Go back and read it in context to the post I was responding too. It was simple devil's advocacy. I'm sorry you took it so personally, and also baffled.
I assure you I am not concerned one iota about campers. You are correct it's their time. And, I fully understand, and stated in another post, that anyone camping at this point is just a publicity stunt. I am unable to be critical of those who have camped for hours because I've been among them at times.
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That would actually be a pretty funny gag -- though lost on anyone that isn't a super geek or tech freak. Also, just an aside in case some are confused about your reference to Nestles, in the U.S., Hersheys has the Kit Kat license.
100% correct. I'm not leaching off society. I'm getting back what I put in (but not nearly as much).
But these line waiters are still idiots.
Haha, I'd rather finish school first. I'm doing Engineering so I figure I will be able to eventually. Gotta get the money to pay for my Apple Obsession somehow
Lets face it, Apple only cares about the China Launch, the US sales will be dismal.
I will wait till the Rumored Spring iPhone event for the iPhone 6 with the bigger screen and comparable 1024 Nokia camera. If I get board waiting will just pick up a Nokia 1024 Windows Phone.
I will wait till the Rumored Spring iPhone event for the iPhone 6 with the bigger screen and comparable 1024 Nokia camera. If I get board waiting will just pick up a Nokia 1024 Windows Phone.
LOL wow. Honestly I never understood the whole "camping out" thing. It doesn't matter if its for a new iPhone, Black Friday sale, or the newest Xbox. Why not just order your stuff online? Lol there's no way in hell I'd ever wait in line for an iPhone or any other gadget, considering I can just order it online and have it delivered to my house. With the 5s, I'll simply preorder it and then go on with my day. Hell I'll probably be able to go into my local Verizon store and pick one up. I remember when the 5 launched, I actually drove by said Verizon store. Lol no lines. And that was at about 7am (was on my way to class) Say what you will about Samsung, but those commercials are spot on LOL
I seem to remember that almost every iPhone launch people on here predict that the sales will be bad, then the sales end up going up over the previous one. Even if there aren't a ton of people who have the 5 who want to upgrade most people in the US are on two year contracts so those who bought the 4S when it came out will be wanting to buy this one since they are up for another upgrade. With all those people plus the apple fans that want to have the newest device no matter what the sales will be pretty good even if they don't grow over the 5 launch although I wouldn't be too surprised if sales do end up slightly up.
You did of course read the article and see that these guys are actually part of a publicity stunt to advertise their company, right?
So these people are camping for a product that (technically) doesn't exist yet, have no idea what the (official) features are, and may or may not (probably may) launch 2 weeks from now?
Well, it does exist.....and the as far as what and when, most people can make an educated guess.
But like the story suggested, the early campers are most likely being paid to sit in line for 2 weeks.
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if the servers don't crash and you are fast enough to get one of the available pre-orders.
Misread yours, then. And no, I didn't take it personally (the last time I waited in line for anything longer than an hour, not counting taking my kids to Disneyland, was for Star Wars Episode I, and friends paid me to wait in line there.) Others had been more negative, and I suppose I hit reply to yours seeing it as "in-kind". It is the over-righteousness of the complaints that bugs me.
Meh, I'm not worried. I'm confident that I'll be getting my iPhone without much hassle or waiting. The Verizon store in my area never gets lines for iPhone launches. I could probably just walk in there on launch day and get one. And even if I do have to wait, it's still not that big a deal. It's just a phone
As the article noted, the publicity stunters weren't even the first in line.
Look behind them in the picture, and you'll see the first two.
That was true even in 2007. There NEVER was a reason to camp in front of a phone store just to get a phone that you could always order online. I wonder how much of Apple's marketing money goes into this campaign...
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That would be my bet.