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Line Starts at 5th Avenue Apple Store
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Remember, it's one iPhone PER PERSON... Baby makes two!
Seriously, for those of you are criticizing waiting for one week, but saying one day is okay... remember, a lot of us think YOU were crazy for camping out for a day, too.
All this wasted time to save time with a potentially faster phone. July 12th you'll be able to walk in and buy one, and they'll have worked the activation bugs out.
Wait in line to buy something you will be able to buy WITHOUT waiting in line... makes LOTS of sense. ANYONE standing line to buy a 3g Iphone is a DUMBAS*.
Last Year
Last year, the original iPhone launched at 6pm. I went to the 5th Ave store at 9pm and I was able to stand in line, get in and get out with a shiny new iPhone in a matter of 20 minutes... which was very reasonable I say. But this is just insane!
I am curious about the productivity losses some companies would face. Some people stand in line for days, others would stand in line overnight for the 8AM launch (at least by AT&T). If Apple launches the iPhone 3G at midnight on July 11, it'll work, but 8AM on a working day is a bit weird IMHO.
Either way, I'll be in line at 5th Ave about 3 to 4 hours after launch time to get my hands on an iPhone 3G.
Last year, the original iPhone launched at 6pm. I went to the 5th Ave store at 9pm and I was able to stand in line, get in and get out with a shiny new iPhone in a matter of 20 minutes... which was very reasonable I say. But this is just insane!
I am curious about the productivity losses some companies would face. Some people stand in line for days, others would stand in line overnight for the 8AM launch (at least by AT&T). If Apple launches the iPhone 3G at midnight on July 11, it'll work, but 8AM on a working day is a bit weird IMHO.
Either way, I'll be in line at 5th Ave about 3 to 4 hours after launch time to get my hands on an iPhone 3G.
lol people are blowing the baby thing out of proportion, Engadget pushed them into that. I'm pretty sure she's not going to be there the whole time. They even say they doubt she's going to stay the night, depending on how everyone feels.. Did she look distressed there? No she didn't. She's getting passed back to her mum for regular nappy/diaper changes.
Saying that - a lot of babies respond well to social stuff, and hanging out with a tribe looking out for them is probably more evolutionarily normal than keeping them home in the quiet.
.. I want to know what the non-partisan petition is about! Haha.
Saying that - a lot of babies respond well to social stuff, and hanging out with a tribe looking out for them is probably more evolutionarily normal than keeping them home in the quiet.
.. I want to know what the non-partisan petition is about! Haha.
Engadget held a gun to their heads and made them an offer they can't refuse.
Nope they are doing this because they want to. Pure and simple.
Is it getting blown out of proportion? I am sure each will make his own decision on that issue regardless of what is said on MacRumors.
Bottom line, no pun intended, is that to wait a week outside a store that is going to release a new gadget is a bit surreal if not weird.
I'm going to start queueing now at the Regent Street, London store for next year's iPhone launch, taking my 3 year-old daughter, my 85 year-old grandmother, both my cats, standing on my head!
Alternatively, I'll just pop over the New York and go queuejump in front of this iDiot.
Alternatively, I'll just pop over the New York and go queuejump in front of this iDiot.
Sushi; No i mean the idea that the baby would be in the queue for any length of time, that was Engadget asking leading questions..
"is the kid staying?"
"I doubt it"
"if she can hack it will she?"
"maybe.. i doubt it"
some other guy: "She's a trooper!"
Then engadget/mr comments are like..
OH NO CALL CHILD SUPPORT SOMEONE'S HOLDING A BABY OUTDOORS IN A MODERATE TEMPERATURE SURROUNDED BY SEEMINGLY FRIENDLY PEOPLE!!!
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I was mostly joking about the evolutionary normal thing, 1 week iphone campers strike me as a bit nuts too, but they've got laptops, they're doing exactly what we're doing now, but in the fresh air, with friends. WTF are Macrumors posters doing judging people for dedicating a lot of time to pointless apple excitement? We're on MacRumors! What exactly are WE doing?
I like everyone's judgements on the weirdness of the queuing, but I don't think anyone has any right to call anyone's parenting into question based on a likely misrepresentation of whats happening.
"is the kid staying?"
"I doubt it"
"if she can hack it will she?"
"maybe.. i doubt it"
some other guy: "She's a trooper!"
Then engadget/mr comments are like..
OH NO CALL CHILD SUPPORT SOMEONE'S HOLDING A BABY OUTDOORS IN A MODERATE TEMPERATURE SURROUNDED BY SEEMINGLY FRIENDLY PEOPLE!!!
..
I was mostly joking about the evolutionary normal thing, 1 week iphone campers strike me as a bit nuts too, but they've got laptops, they're doing exactly what we're doing now, but in the fresh air, with friends. WTF are Macrumors posters doing judging people for dedicating a lot of time to pointless apple excitement? We're on MacRumors! What exactly are WE doing?
I like everyone's judgements on the weirdness of the queuing, but I don't think anyone has any right to call anyone's parenting into question based on a likely misrepresentation of whats happening.
Wow. I only waited in line 12 hours to see Star Wars Episode II. There's nothing like being at a show and the theater manager coming in to thank everybody for being so patient, and asking that everybody turn off their lightsabers. It was fun.
We tailgated, hung out in excellent weather and enjoyed not going to work that day. My boss thought I was nuts, but she was the type that would skip work to go watch baseball. I'd stab myself with a fork if I had to watch baseball. So, to each their own.
If these people are really spending a week in line to get a product that will be in stock everywhere in a week or two, that's their deal. It's a pretty cheap way to spend vacation time when gasoline is so expensive.
We tailgated, hung out in excellent weather and enjoyed not going to work that day. My boss thought I was nuts, but she was the type that would skip work to go watch baseball. I'd stab myself with a fork if I had to watch baseball. So, to each their own.
If these people are really spending a week in line to get a product that will be in stock everywhere in a week or two, that's their deal. It's a pretty cheap way to spend vacation time when gasoline is so expensive.
Sitting in our homes/offices checking a message board (some obsessively, perhaps, but surely still getting on with our lives), surely you can see the difference between that and camping outside for a week?
OK maybe it's a representation, but assuming it's not, do you think it's a good environment to keep a baby outside for a week? Maybe if you're staying in the countryside, it's very healthy, but in a city centre, on a very busy road, cars and trucks racing past 24/7? I wouldn't want to do that to my own lungs, but I'd imagine it'd be very harmful to a young childs immature lungs.
Personally I laughed when I read this on Engadget this morning, more power too them, as for CPS, I'm sure someone has already called them.
ROFL wow thats the funnyestist ist ist thing ever
Do they NOT shower? Brush teeth? EWWWW
"So the next day, Steve Jobs went to see them; only this time with his poor old customers. An' within an hour, the customers each signed certified checks for $199(+ tax) for the 8GB Model or $299(+ tax) for the 16GB Model. ["How'd he do that?"] Steve made them an offer they couldn't refuse. ["What was that?"] Steve Jobs held a gun to their heads and assured them that either their brains, or their signatures, would be on the contracts. That's a true story."Engadget held a gun to their heads and made them an offer they can't refuse.
I'd love to know what these people do for work that they can afford to take the entire week off??
Hell with that, give me the Italy or Hawaii for a week!
Hell with that, give me the Italy or Hawaii for a week!
Complete Idiots...... anyone standing in line for the 3G iPhone now.... might just possibly be the most ignorant human being(s) on planet earth.
No doubt.... Apple has been making a trillion of these things every nano second for months.
No doubt.... Apple has been making a trillion of these things every nano second for months.
Come on. This is NYC. This is the most mundane thing people here do. You want to see weird stuff, head down to the Village.
I regret waiting 3+ hours for the first model last year after realizing they never ran out of units at any location in my city.. except for maybe our only single Apple store.. but all the AT&Ts were in stock.