Campers Already Setting Up for iPhone 5S/5C Launch at Apple's Fifth Avenue Store

[GRuizMD]

All of you guys on the line wasting your time and looking like fools for a god damn phone, I could use your help in my local hospital, at least you would be doing something worth.

 

[MRSucks]

I am not a fanboy but I want to do this at some point once I get the opportunity to live around there and the time so maybe I can finally get a fanboy iCard. (Okay, maybe falling in line for a few hours - no overnights lol)

 

[Locoboof]

I hope apple says the new iPhone will be released October 27th. Lol

 

[D.T.]

No showers, leaving the line for bathroom, etc, or its not true camping. Oh the smells

If the phone doesn't actually release till Sept 20th, I suspect there's going to be lots of cannibalism too ...

 

[Orlandoech]

So THIS is what you do when you're an unemployed trust fund baby...

Yup. Wish I was just a trust fund baby and not to camp out for a GD iPhone.

 

[rwilliams]

I thought this foolishness had ceased with "iJustin".

 

[jonnysods]

Wow. They will be there a while.

 

[JAT]

To be fair, when a person is employed they pay into unemployment with their tax dollars. You also have to qualify for unemployment, and to do so you need to have been employed. So we aren't exactly paying for their unemployment, they paid into it, and if you're ever unfortunate enough to lose your job you will get back some of the money that you've paid into it.

Not quite. When a person is employed, their employer pays into unemployment via tax. You can ask their employers how they recoup that money, whether it's by raising prices or other.

 

[tbrand7]

I live in New York and honestly, i'd rather wake up at 3 am to preorder it on Friday then camp outside 5th Avenue for 2 weeks.

 

[notjustjay]

Well, I would never do this, but if that's how they want to spend their time, who am I to complain?

Surely for them it's as much about the experience as it is the actual product. And of course here we are talking about them... so they are getting the attention they want.

Lots of people will do the same sort of thing on Black Friday (or Boxing Day, for my fellow Canadians). I wouldn't do that, either. The longest I have ever waited in line for a product was probably about an hour.

 

[nStyle]

Apple should delay the release just to toy with them.

I live in New York and honestly, i'd rather wake up at 3 am to preorder it on Friday then camp outside 5th Avenue for 2 weeks.

Assuming pre-ordering or even ordering for that matter is worth it. I think it will be even less worthwhile for 5-5S than 4-4S.

 

[ohio.emt]

The joys of living in a small town. The original iPhone I just walked into AT&T on launch day around lunch time and walked out with an iPhone. For the 3G got in line about 10 minutes before they opened and was about 7th in line.

 

[2010mini]

ITT: people who didn't read the article before commenting.

Most of these people are getting PAID to wait in line.

 

[DocNYz]

Are they allowed to sleep on the street for 2 weeks?

Yes. And like all homeless people here, they can vote.

 

[roadbloc]

Same news... different year. If you ask me, these people have far too much time on their hands. But if sleeping rough for two weeks is worth being one of the first to buy another £600 phone that will (most likely) look identical to the last model, then so be it.

I have a hollow pity for them. At least there is no sign of that iJustin guy from last time.

 

[DotCom2]

SOME people just have to have their 15 minutes!

 

[Oldschoolers]

That's not the front of the line for the Apple store, it's the end of the line for a new never seen before Lord of The Rings movie.

 

[sputnikv]

one day, i wish people would line up for a launch they thought was going to happen but didn't

 

[ceva321]

I wonder if these people have jobs

 

[512ke]

These Apple fanatics waiting in line are crazy!

(He said, as he posted on an Apple rumors website the second time today, after doing his twelfth Google search for the new iPhones.)

Yeah, THEY'RE crazy!

 

[nazaar]

I camped out once... for a night, but this is just dumb.

 

[ValSalva]

I wonder if these people have jobs

Steve Jobs

Couldn't resist. But seriously one has to wonder. We're talking two weeks here.

 

[ceva321]

It could be stupid bug nobody is waiting in line for Samsung products... And they get crazy about that!

Becuse there is no need.

 

[yetisalmon]

who are these losers? really there is nothing better they could be doing? what a waste of time.

 

[Mrbobb]

Will Samsung send some parents over to crash the party?