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iPhone 12 I want to commend those 11 people sitting in front of my local Apple Store waiting for tomorrow... it's people like them who made Apple successful.

The only people I can imagine who would do this:
1) You somehow missed the pre-order day, or didn't think you'd want it then and in the week since (maybe post-reviews?) you decided you want one AND have to have it Day 1 AND you have the time to wait in line
or 2) Like OP mentioned, you're doing it for fun "just to say you did it" (?)
 
Christopher Kim said:
The only people I can imagine who would do this:
1) You somehow missed the pre-order day, or didn't think you'd want it then and in the week since (maybe post-reviews?) you decided you want one AND have to have it Day 1 AND you have the time to wait in line
or 2) Like OP mentioned, you're doing it for fun "just to say you did it" (?)
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I would never admit to anyone I did something like that.
 
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UBS28 said:
Thanks. I'm currently camping outside of the Apple Store for more than a week now. Going to upgrade my iPhone 11 Pro Max to the iPhone 12 Pro Max.

People actually have given me money thinking I'm a homeless person sleeping in front of the Apple store. Because of that, I got extra money for the charger that is not included in the box.
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GOOD LUCK on that---12PRO MAX orders start Nov 6
 
BlueMoose said:
His mom drove us there, in her Oldsmobile station wagon. There were 7 of us. The wagon had front bench seats, so it was his mom + 2... then 3 more in the back seat.. me and 2 others squeezed into the rear-facing seat in the trunk area.
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SUICIDE seat! oh I miss that tiny bench seat, we would wave and make faces at the people in the cars behind us. I loved it when they would make funny faces back at us and blow a kiss.
 
Nozuka said:
This seems like the worst possible time to wait in line for something....
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I'm also questioning my own decision to select in-store pick-pick tomorrow.... but I'm sure the Apple Store will take all precautions and kick people out as soon as the handover of iPhones are complete?
 
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tonybarnaby said:
I’m nearly 40, and I have never waited in line for a phone or done anything crazy for Black Friday. The only thing I have ever done is some midnight game releases back in my teenage years.
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Went to that Sega Genesis release huh? :p
 
BlueMoose said:
I'm also questioning my own decision to select in-store pick-pick tomorrow.... but I'm sure the Apple Store will take all precautions and kick people out as soon as the handover of iPhones are complete?
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Not the ones that need assistance in setting up their phones they won’t... or then want to maybe test out MagSafe, or buy an Apple Watch while they’re there... but distancing will be in place and in store capacity limits will be present.
 
oVerboost said:
Not the ones that need assistance in setting up their phones they won’t... or then want to maybe test out MagSafe, or buy an Apple Watch while they’re there... but distancing will be in place and in store capacity limits will be present.
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good to know! :) :)
 
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UBS28 said:
Thanks. I'm currently camping outside of the Apple Store for more than a week now. Going to upgrade my iPhone 11 Pro Max to the iPhone 12 Pro Max.

People actually have given me money thinking I'm a homeless person sleeping in front of the Apple store. Because of that, I got extra money for the charger that is not included in the box.
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Zaft said:
I waited overnight when the Xbox 360 came out.. I was 16. Never again
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I only do it for the excitement of talking to the other people there. I used to do it yearly for CoDs, and I did it for the PlayStation Consoles. But now I usually just buy my games digitally. I made sure to rush to get my PS5 pre-order in ASAP. I'm glad I did, Because I know these will be sacred for a while apparently.
 
darngooddesign said:
I did the line for all of them up till the 5, which is when Apple finally figured out their in-store preorder pickup.
The original line was great fun.
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Exactly my point, Sure I can wait at home for my pre-order. But when standing in line and talking to everyone else about what phone they use and what they're getting etc... Was fun. I think its was the iPhone 6/6s launch, A friend of mine stood in line, and had a mother and son behind him, He finally convinced her to upgrade from her old iPhone 3g 8Gb Phone to the bigger screen 6/s plus model. Plus he got an upgrade from his 5s haha.
 
The-Real-Deal82 said:
We all made Apple successful by buying their products. People who decide to camp outside shops for the bizarre fun of it don’t get any extra kudos from me.
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without those people, would the TV news crew show up to provide free publicity over the years?
 
I waited to get the 1st iPad in 2010 I think. That’s when I graduated so no job or anything. Anyway no way I’d wait I got better things to do. IE work!
 
NightFox said:
Never done one of these, but I think in the early days (3G, 3GS etc) they were a real event - less so these days though.
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I was 2nd in the queue at my local Apple store for the 3GS, was a crazy queue and we had Apple T-shirts given to the first 10 of us in the store.

I also queued for 4, 4s, 5 and 5s. I stopped after that, too many scalpers jumping the line or letting their friends join etc. The fun experience stopped.

Since then it’s been home delivery for me apart from 11, but I had a collection slot after work for that phone.
 
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