#peasants.... Why on earth would you not just have it delivered to your house from pre order...
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iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Go On Sale in U.S. and Canada to Huge Lines
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Are these people just completely unaware of the Internet?
Do they also beat their laundry on a rock?
Do they also beat their laundry on a rock?
It was Dell Streak, the first phablet. Also HTC had some pretty big phones 3-4 years long before Samsung.
Whats wrong with these people waiting in lines when they can use perorder? Either they are not working, addicted to apple products or just missing something in the their lives. No phone is worth waiting hours or days in a line. Sorry buts that how I fell.
I guess they are since you're talking about them even with no one talking about samsung
Not enough... Apple said they are planning to sell 80-100 million units in the the next 3.5 months, until the end of 2014... They better ramp up the production
Android is getting better with the fluidity stuff (Andoid L should be pretty good) but it is barely keeping up.
The Android world can be very frustrating. When I owned an S3 as my primary device (gift from dad), I actually switched back to a spare original iphone, because although it was "slower", I could actually get things done faster (for example, Android, when the S3 had come out, had this ridiculous issue where you tap a text field, it would first show a cursor there, and then the keyboard would slide up, and the keyboard would activate a few ms after the keyboard had slid up, so I'd type something and it would miss a few chars, so I would have to erase and retype. OTOH, my original iPhone eerything would happen simultaneously and smoothly, so even though they keyboard would be visible later, I was typing out stuff faster).
OTOH, today, the Android OS has become smoother, but the HW makers cannot match what Apple is doing. Apple has superior CPUs, GPUs (especially when considering the dev APIs and integration with the OS), cameras (while the Android guys are playing a megapixel race, Apple is developing better cameras. Nokia is the only other company also developing great cameras on phones), fingerprint sensor, etc.
With the iPhone 6, the one legitimate complaint would be the 16GB memory on the lowest model. IMO, this really should not exist, especially since iOS8 consumes more space. On the flip side, with cloud storage being such a bigger deal now, maybe people will be able to manage with the lesser storage better than they could a few years ago.
The same goes for the "retina display". LG Arena had a 311 ppi screen back in 2009, no one really cared... because the phone and LG's "homemade" OS, so the whole package was nowhere near to an iPhone. A huge screen alone is nothing, it's the combination of a big screen and iOS that a lot of people craved.
Not enough... Apple said they are planning to sell 80-100 million units in the the next 3.5 months, until the end of 2014... They better ramp up the production
damn at those numbers they will be caught up next August
I was pointing out the logical fallacy of the post I was responding to. I don't care who came out with the first phablet. It doesn't matter who came out with one first. His statement was illogical.
Cool, I take it you feel the same way about apples contribution to the fingerprint scanner, the tablet, multi touch, app stores, and soon smartwatches and nfc, then? I can't think of one thing apple actually invented but boy do they know how to make the world notice.
I apologize for the confusion.
anyone see a video or photo that shows the 6 on top of the 6 plus to see a true difference in size?
Fingerprint scanner, yes.
Tablet, no.
Multi-touch, yes.
App stores, yes.
Smartwatches, no.
NFC, no.
It's not scalping. That's how the market works.
1- Buy item at $X
2- Sell item at $X+y%.
3- Reinvest in your business
4- GOTO 1
That's what walmart, Best buy and millions of companies around the world do.
What tablet, smartwatch, and nfc implementation did the world notice before apples?
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Thats sick!
Samsung: Thank you Google for creating an OS for our phones because frankly we don't know how to do it like Apple did.
Google : Thank you Samsung for taking our OS and making it mainstream. Honestly it was loosely cobbled together as a reference project and not for consumer use.
I see a lot of people asking this question, and bashing the line sitters. If you've not waited in line, then you really shouldn't bash them... its a personal choice. I think we can all agree that Woz doesn't have to stand in line to buy an iPhone, but he has for years because he enjoys it.
I did it one year and it was actually a lot of fun. I took the day off and looked at it more or less like entertainment. I have done it since because I've been too busy at work each time a launch happens, but I wouldn't rule out doing it again at some point. When you go to a theme park and ride a roller coaster, you might stand in line an hour for a ride that lasts a minute and a half. The waiting and anticipation can actually be better than the actual ride in some cases. At least waiting in an Apple line you are with people that have something in common and can have conversations.
Its definitely not for everyone, and I wouldn't do it if I had something else important to do that day, but it can be a lot of fun if you go in with the right attitude. I don't think I'd wait in line at one of the other stores though... just the Apple store.
Microsoft and HP had tablets way before iPad.
Pebble and Android Wear (and even calculator watches) came before Apple Watch.
NFC has been a thing in the tech sector long before Apple's very-limited implementation of it in iPhone 6. Additionally, a large number of chains have had tap-to-pay stations for years that take advantage of NFC.
ESPECIALLY the tablet. I mean, come on. They weren't anything like the iPad before it. And it changed tablets forever after it. That's a big reason for all of the law suits.
But hey we all have our opinions. Cheers.