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Apple Mac OS X Tiger Launch Events

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Got my preordered copy today :D

Also went to visit a White Plains, NY Mac:Store to take a shot at door prizes, took my family, we got:
- 3 free itunes songs
- 10% off coupon [which I used to get a sleek 20" cinema display, price drop-10% cool!]
- we all got spotlight keychains
- plus Ben&Jerry's was handing out free ice cream to the people waiting to get into the store,

nice pleasant evening.

Now if i could only get a G5 PowerBook :cool:

**also got Tiger Mousepads :p
 
cgundlach said:
Probably not a lot of people excited by this, but I am. I was going to hold off on Tiger, now I guess I am going to be buying it tomorrow.

:)
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I agree, this is great news. I've been looking forward to Java 1.5 on OS X for some time now. I can't wait to get Tiger and try it out to see if Apple has done everything they promised us. In fact, this is the only reason I'll be getting Tiger.

Sorry the release party wasn't better. I didn't go this time, but I remember having a good time at the Panther release with some nice giveaways and discounts. It is lame that they didn't offer the 10% discount to everyone there.
 
I went to both stores in the Dallas area, and got a 10% discount and a free iTunes card. Of course, my 10% card is less than my student discount would be in most places, and resllers online who offer free shipping and no tax on the Mac Mini are even cheaper in net cost than a student-discounted Mac Mini, so...

Still, it was okay, for my first (two) launch part[y|ies]. The Willow Bend employees were almost friendly instead of rude, this time, even. (The Knox employees were fine and helpful, but I expected that)
 
worst release EVER!

Man I have been wating too long for these apple t-shirts, keychains, and mousepads. i was so hyped up when i got there but all they had were these stupid operating systems.....

seriously folks... keychains or not... TIGER IS HERE!
*does happy dance* :D
 
Just got back from the local Apple Store. There were about 50 people in line and the place was packed. My friend wanted to buy Tiger, but I decided to hold off. I would rather wait for a few upgrades plus I will get it with the new G5 when ever they come out.

I will have to play with it before I decide to get it instead of waiting for a new machines.
 
dmelgar said:
I must admit too that as a stockholder, I was underwhelmed. Apple can't afford to be making this type of collosal marketing blunder. The stock price is too high for this type of mistake. Encourages me to ditch the stock before more iPod competitors come around.
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could be worse, tiger could be 2 years late, missing 3 or more of it's core features and cost $300.

oh and as for you "wanting to buy a mac" give it up, if you had really wanted one you'd of ordered one online, you're just looking for excuses.
 
Lame launch but Tiger is hot

Went to the local store in Huntington, NY. Quite a few people but no free stuff. Don't care much about the 10% discount because of EDU eligibility, but would have liked a t-shirt (even if they were selling them), or at least dog-tags.

But played around with Tiger. I really like Dashboard and can see Spotlight becoming very-very useful.

My copy of Tiger has been shipped and the PM order is being processed. Looking forward to a more powerful system compared to my current PB. Good that I did not get everything by today - this way I don't neglect the kids over the weekend :)
 
St Soichiro said:
Went to the local store in Huntington, NY. Quite a few people but no free stuff. Don't care much about the 10% discount because of EDU eligibility, but would have liked a t-shirt (even if they were selling them), or at least dog-tags.

But played around with Tiger. I really like Dashboard and can see Spotlight becoming very-very useful.

My copy of Tiger has been shipped and the PM order is being processed. Looking forward to a more powerful system compared to my current PB. Good that I did not get everything by today - this way I don't neglect the kids over the weekend :)
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Funny thing is that I ask for the EDU discount, but was told I couldn't get it.
 
WORST. LAUNCH. PARTY. EVER.

I feel for the people who actually waited in line for 6PM to roll around. I stopped by the Michigan Avenue Apple Store around 10PM after a night out with my friends, and all I got was one of the scratch 'n win cards. Oh yay, a free iTunes song. Not even keychains, dogtags, t-shirts, anything.

Boo.

And they had abnormally loud (bad) music blasting. What was that about? I've never been less excited about being in an Apple Store, and I love going there!
 
johnnyastro said:
Was it just me, or was this the most disappointing launch party ever? no cool t-shirts, dog tags,or mouse pads, not even anything on sale. I won a free iTunes song. Big whoop. I could have stayed home and drank a pepsi and gotten the same thing.
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To be honest I’m not overly surprised. Apple IMHO has turned into IBM as of late. e.g all business, no fun. The company seems to have gone corporate in a BIG way which is a shame. Apparently someone at Apple felt it was time that they grew up. :( Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to stop at the Apple store. Hitchhiker ran past the closing time in the adjoined mall so no chance to play with Tiger. Of course there is tomorrow. :D
 
Beaverton, Oregon Store had Many Big Winners!

I only received an iTunes song, but in less than 10 minutes of opening I saw one powerbook winner, 3 30 GB iPod winners and at least 5 shuffle winners...it was unbelievable! It as my first Apple event and it was well worth the trip. :D
 
I won and 1GH iPod Shuffle and the funny thing is, I was going there to buy one along with Tiger and iLife 5. The trip to Stanford Shopping center was well worth it.

Some of the employees were scary nice. A really cute asian girl works there though.
 
As a partial mac switcher, today was my first time at apple store party. So I can't really compare it to other parties.
It was a bit dissapointing. I got the 10%-off card BUT THE TIGER CANNOT BE BOUGHT WITH 10% OFF. WT***.
I tried to keep positive attitude though so I checked some computers + The new OS.
 
ichabod said:
Now if i could only get a G5 PowerBook :cool:
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Stop tormenting me. :( ;)
 
i was at the one in troy, michigan - somerset. if anyone remembers the spikey haired asian guy with blue sun glasses! :cool: anyways it was the first one i attended and for some reason kept thinking something cool was going to happen... as if i was missing out on something. bleh. not so. got the 10% card and bought an armband for my shuffle. also lame. the only good thing that came out of this was that i didn't spend much time there, ergo i decided to be social for once and attend a party and got a girls number! :eek:
 
Tuned MP5T said:
I did the line was around the corner past the Hugo Boss store.
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Me too, I won a free Itunes song and then gave it away cause i got no iTunes account. :(
It was pretty nice though :D
 
Mac_Freak said:
Me too, I won a free Itunes song and then gave it away cause i got no iTunes account. :(
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No iTunes account, eh? I think I know why Apple was giving away so many iTunes songs. I was at the Apple store inside the Glendale Galleria and there were a lot of people there. Many people passing by wondered what was going on, went inside to see, and were handed a scratch card. Most likely, they got a free iTunes song as well since it seems like only the early people in line were the ones who won anything worthwhile.

Anyways, those people were probably PC users (since they had no idea what was going on) and have never used iTunes before. The free song is Apple's way of introducing them to the iTMS. They get the first song free and then if they like the experience, they buy more and more (like a drug dealer giving away a free sample with the hope that the person will become addicted). They then decide to buy an iPod to listen to their new music. And that's when the iPod halo effect kicks in, and then next thing you know they're buying their first Mac -- probably an iMac. So,...

1) Give away free iTunes song
2) User gets hooked
3) User buys iPod
4) User likes iPod so much, they buy a Mac (their first?) = iPod halo effect
5) Profit!

Or, maybe I'm just bored and reading too much into Apple's marketing scheme. :p
 
Dissapointing launch No iMac updates.

It was cool to see the launch, but all I got was a free iTunes song. Man.. I thought there were going to be free t-shirts. :confused: There were none. :( I didn't even see anyone win anything special, either and I had good odds of winning the big stuff. I went to the Valley Fair Mall Apple Store in Santa Clara. And I was ready to be the first person to buy the new iMac. Oh well. Hopefully, it's tomorrow so I can just come back and buy it.
 
anubis said:
I bet I got my copy of Tiger in the most unique way.

I got it through my University's bookstore. The bookstore on my campus also runs a small J&J type convinence store on campus adjecent to the main bookstore. The main bookstore area closes at 5:30, but the release party doesn't start until 6, so what is the bookstore to do? Well, sell Tiger at the J&J of course!

So I've got some sweet pictures of me getting my copy of Tiger as well as a 512MB iPod Shuffle for $50 (that's what the bookstore got to do as a promotion, as opposed to the Apple Store's giveaways) at a small J&J-type convinence store!

People are going to see the pictures and be like, "wow, your 7-11 sells Mac stuff? sweet!"
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I was there too! :D
 
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