Man, it's not rocket science. Most of the people in line at the moment are trying to promote their business or are being paid to sit in line to promote a business. Even the two guys mentioned in this story are affiliated with a website.
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I think you're forgetting a few other possibilities:
-Students who are living on mom & dad's dime.
-Independently wealthy folks with nothing better to do.
-People who work from home and can take it "on the road" (or "on the square").
The whole world is not simply "the working" and "the moochers".
Your logic and humor skills need work. Two people can't be aggregated into an entire population. Even as a joke it lacks punch b/c their isn't even a kernel of truth in it, which is what makes a joke funny.
Agree camping out at this point is dumb but I don't see a huge cross section of America in line, just a couple of opportunists.
motivation
I guess many will have some publicity agenda for their new App or something, which they will probably get. Others just want photo op?
I guess many will have some publicity agenda for their new App or something, which they will probably get. Others just want photo op?
I'm just surprised they can sit and lounge around those steps leading up. Every time I simply sit on them after a random visit to there, some security guy always comes by and has me get up and sit in the chairs off to either side.
I think you're forgetting a few other possibilities:
-Students who are living on mom & dad's dime.
-Independently wealthy folks with nothing better to do.
-People who work from home and can take it "on the road" (or "on the square").
The whole world is not simply "the working" and "the moochers".
Granted students most likely count as quite a few out there. But the number of people who are so wealthy they don't have to work really don't add up to many. And if you're running a business from home, you really wouldn't want to take a laptop/phone etc. to a square & operate in the middle of city for two weeks, would you?
That's never happened in previous years, and it isn't going to happen next week. These people have their own reasons for doing this (none of which I understand). Ha!
I'm as loyal and Apple-y as they come, but I can think of 2,000 other things I could do with two weeks.
This kind of thing was cute and novel 4-5 years ago when all this was new and exciting, and the iPhone was "the little phone that could". But it's now an accepted, mainstream product owned by gazillions, so there's no real underlying "hook" or reason for folks to be doing this kind of thing...other than good old fashioned "look at me!" and other variations of first-world boredom and/or attention-whoring.
You see, there's this thing called "pre-order" (and there are these companies called FedEx and UPS). If you know how to go about it, you can *gasp* have your new iPhone delivered TO YOUR HOUSE, day one! It's amazing.
And before I get labeled a "hater" or "fandroid", I'm typing all this on my iPhone 5 (and I've been an iPhone owner/user since mid-July 2007).
But I'm still not waiting in line for one!
Good On Ya!
I'm not the sort of person who could wait in line like that for any product, movie, etc., nonetheless I'm glad those folks are there representing. Plus they look like they're having a good time so why piss on their parade?
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes..."
I'm not the sort of person who could wait in line like that for any product, movie, etc., nonetheless I'm glad those folks are there representing. Plus they look like they're having a good time so why piss on their parade?
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes..."
It's an ancient, hoary tradition; celebrating the mythic heritage of Apple.
Like all traditions, it exists for the benefit of the celebrants.
Like most traditions, it has a self-imposed requirement for self-abnegation.
Long live tradition! Practicality rarely, if ever, has anything to do with such celebratory rituals!
Like all traditions, it exists for the benefit of the celebrants.
Like most traditions, it has a self-imposed requirement for self-abnegation.
Long live tradition! Practicality rarely, if ever, has anything to do with such celebratory rituals!
Resistance is futile, I must comment like an old man...
In the early hey days of Cupertino, the most I would hang out in a line for an Apple product was after dinner for a midnight sale (~4 hours). However, the people that were in line were true geeks, lovers of what Apple stood for when it was still the little computer company that could, the crazy ones, if you will. The stories we would swap about the things we were able to accomplish with a Mac, OS X, and iPhone OS (not iOS) were very inspiring. We weren't elitist, we embraced all who wanted in our little group. Nowadays, the lines are generally filled with hipsters, trust fundies, confused masses, brats, sellers, and destroyers. Peppered in between these people are wide-eyed enthusiasts who still want to bottle what little nostalgia there is left from the wonder years of the early century. Sadly, that time will never be relived but, man, those were the "Woodstock" days of my youth!
In the early hey days of Cupertino, the most I would hang out in a line for an Apple product was after dinner for a midnight sale (~4 hours). However, the people that were in line were true geeks, lovers of what Apple stood for when it was still the little computer company that could, the crazy ones, if you will. The stories we would swap about the things we were able to accomplish with a Mac, OS X, and iPhone OS (not iOS) were very inspiring. We weren't elitist, we embraced all who wanted in our little group. Nowadays, the lines are generally filled with hipsters, trust fundies, confused masses, brats, sellers, and destroyers. Peppered in between these people are wide-eyed enthusiasts who still want to bottle what little nostalgia there is left from the wonder years of the early century. Sadly, that time will never be relived but, man, those were the "Woodstock" days of my youth!
Pre-ordering is the way to go. From the Apple Store app, not from a browser.
The app connects to Apple's servers almost instantly, pre-ordering takes just a minute or two.
And your new iPhone is delivered on the first day of availability. No line.