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iPhone 7 Lines Start Growing Ahead of Friday's Launch
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In New York for the past couple of years, most of the people in line were buying phones on behalf of someone else, who is selling them overseas to places with a later launch date.
I understand the rollover thing, but employers have an obligation to give all employees time away from the office (or wherever you work). Anything short of that is a crime against humanity.
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That's assuming that's the case. Either way, it shouldnt matter. You're given X amount of vacation days, you are entitled to them. I dont care how you spin it. Americans and Canadians are the most overworked people on the planet and yet they get so little time off from work. It's disgusting... and to think SOME people actually get all apologetic about it?
I actually have an easier time understanding the people who're waiting in line more than the people here who feel compelled to mock and harshly criticize. What's gained by that? A feeling of superiority?
Perhaps they enjoy the comeraderie and the experience? Perhaps they couldn't get the 7 Plus in jet black at 3am and they don't want to wait until November?
They have their reasons, just like some of us had our reasons for waking up at 3am on a work night and driving an hour out of state to pick up a jet black iPhone this Friday... yeah, that would be me.
Perhaps they enjoy the comeraderie and the experience? Perhaps they couldn't get the 7 Plus in jet black at 3am and they don't want to wait until November?
They have their reasons, just like some of us had our reasons for waking up at 3am on a work night and driving an hour out of state to pick up a jet black iPhone this Friday... yeah, that would be me.
Actually yes. Well, only in South Korea though. Not sure if the line was there for days, but they did make a line for Galaxy Not...... I mean, should I call it a Death Note 7?
I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but you won't be getting your Model 3 in 2017. That being said, you will get it sooner than if you hadn't waited in line!
Wait, what? I may have been misled as to the purpose of these lines...
equally pathetic are people who judge those as pathetic
Why do you think apple customers are supposed to be intelligent, liberals? Does owning an Apple product somehow make you liberal? Intelligent? So you can skip school, buy an iPhone and whalla you are set? Are you saying conservatives don't use iPhones?
You realize you just generalized an entire group, put down that group, and made yourself somehow better and "outside" that "liberal" group of people not realizing you just turned into the same exact people you are trying to offend.
In your own argument, you kind of made yourself a narcist, people hating, person... sorry you feel that way.
There are better ways to get the phone other than waiting there for few days.
I'd do like Fire Note. This thing is so hot, you can't find it in stores anymore.
What makes you the dictator of what people can and cannot spend their money on? For some people, these are assistive tech devices. I'm unemployed and own several Apple products. I spend almost no money on anything but food and shelter, saving the rest for these few devices that make my life a little more comfortable and convenient (and I hope eventually my tech expenditures will help me sell photography and/or music or tech contracting work for some flex money).
Yeah, and I think those are pretty foolish things to wait in line for for DAYS too... Especially sports.
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- Vacation day users who will lose those days otherwise
I don't comprehend any of that either, and it DOES have an impact: on a mass scale, this crap wastes resources that should be put to more socially positive uses. I have no problem with entertainment, but sports in specific is a multi-billion dollar waste and attention whore obsession for many populations. Like TV and church, it's an opiate that people use to avoid dealing with things that really matter.
I wouldn't. Some of it is really quite crazy, but the culture has normalized it by the craziness being near majority status. Black Friday is particularly terrible on a sociological level.
not to you or me but it's their time to waste
Its sort of an event, maybe the camaraderie etc
You can watch sports on tv but people pay money to get there, crazy money to get in, obscene fees for
drinks and snacks...heh then theres golf...
Again: that's crazy and wasteful, too. I don't even go to the movies much, and it's almost always at the cheap place, and I don't buy overpriced junk at the stands.
Is it though? Maybe you're lucky to have a decent job and maybe you didn't have to struggle a lot to get it. There are lots of people who cannot get jobs because the jobs would pay less than their social services cover and would KILL the social services, costing them their shelter (mortgage, rent, whatever). I'm talking about all kinds of people, including the highly skilled and experienced. A few months to years off the job and companies use that as a reason not to hire you. A few years older than the average job applicant and companies somehow have other people more qualified than you (of course they're not discriminating, no no no...). Haven't paid to get useless certifications from BS certification businesses in your field of expertise? Suddenly you're not as valuable as other applicants who paid for those BS certifications. Got any disabilities that can't be seen and therefore legally protected? Et cetera ... The USA is pretty screwed up.
And by some people's opinions... Yes, they are. They're at least ...bizarre and such. There was a time when only sports fanatics could get away with that kind of thing. Now geeks can do it too. I wish the "cool" geek fad had been around when I was more likely to participate in it, but I lost interest when the rest of my society was hostile and judgmental about it. Then again, I've always been pretty judgmental about sports fanatics ;-) :-D
equally pathetic are people who judge those as pathetic
Wait, but you just judged someone as pathetic!!!
Yeah, but where's the fun in NOT waiting in line? I mean, assuming your the sort of person who enjoys waiting in lines.
Almost as pathetic as one wagging a finger at something people choose to do with their own time when it affects them in no discernible way.