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Lines Swell at Apple Stores Around the World as Customers Prepare for iPhone X Launch
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Lucky dog! I'm sure the 8:1 split a few years back also helped immensely since the stock after the split was $80US and jumped to $100US within less than 4 days!
Today: UP $1.22US potentially I'm estimating and reading it could be higher still over the weekend
I just realized the Starbucks at the mall (100 feet from Apple store) is going to swamped tomorrow morning. I am going to have to go to another location. Damn you apple!!
Those are local resellers buying off the entire stock and waiting to flip them for a giant profit right before New Year's Eve. Common practice.
[doublepost=1509670373][/doublepost]Was at the Boston store around 6pm and there were like 5-6 people there. Somebody also brought a seat from a minivan to sit in.
Lucky dog! I'm sure the 8:1 split a few years back also helped immensely since the stock after the split was $80US and jumped to $100US within less than 4 days!
Today: UP $1.22US potentially I'm estimating and reading it could be higher still over the weekend
I believe it was 7 to 1, but yes it was nice. But there were a lot of years of drought while I held on. The stock bounced in the teens and 20s for a long time until the late 2000s or so.
Luckily I owned Microsoft, and it was going gangbusters. Then the Balmer years set in.
But now with Satya. Happy days are here again!
I believe it was 7 to 1, but yes it was nice. But there were a lot of years of drought while I held on. The stock bounced in the teens and 20s for a long time until the late 2000s or so.
Luckily I owned Microsoft, and it was going gangbusters. Then the Balmer years set in.
What no love for the monkey "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, developers (gasps frantically for air) ... Developers, Developers, developers, developers" (voice fades into laringitus).
Yeah Satya is a genius and the company has never been better. I still think the stock is far too high currently for Microsoft. We'll see though.
I will confess that I have waited in line to buy an iPhone. But you have to admit this is really stupid to video the first people coming out with a new phone... Like they are a rock star or something. I remember the kid a few years back that became the first to come out and then a few seconds later the first to drop his new iPhone and break it.
yeah I recall that too ... was beautiful. Like Charles Wiggam's son after Bart's sister dumping him you could just see the moment his heart broke into a million pieces
lolDoes the iPhoneX really cost 1000 dollars, is it correct? (I'm not joking, I trully would like to know).
If it is indeed 1000 dollars, I'm astonished, I can't believe how so many people can afford such an expensive mobile phone.
Or are they buying it throug a plan (is there such a thing via Apple?)
Anyway, good for Apple, the gain will be tremendous.
If it is indeed 1000 dollars, I'm astonished, I can't believe how so many people can afford such an expensive mobile phone.
Or are they buying it throug a plan (is there such a thing via Apple?)
Anyway, good for Apple, the gain will be tremendous.
Nice. Does Apple provide these, when customers spent their last monies on the X?
Exactly. Any consumer desire I’ve had has been artificial, thrust upon my reluctant brain by forces beyond my control. I realize now I’d be much happier in a yurt in the woods with no phone service or plumbing. I feel so used.
The cheapest model in the US is $1,000... without AppleCare... and it goes up from there. AppleCare and copay fees are also crazy expensive. I do think a lot of people buy them on a monthly plan. And the crazy part is that the only thing it really does different from the other phones is a controversial FaceID vs. TouchID, and animated emojis. Otherwise, runs the same stuff. And the notch. Its like getting a designer purse or jeans or something.
Straw men aside, most people could survive perfectly well with the phone they already have or with a lower cost replacement. BTW, you can still get cellular service to your 5s inside your yurt. So you should be good.
So an iPhone X represents a superfluous source of synthetic happiness, but an iPhone 5s is fine?
Or were you just as indignant over the buzz and line-waiting when the iPhone 6 came out?
Or is the cut off between justifiable technology investment and manufactured hype somewhere between $700 and $1000?
Actual questions, not rhetorical, not straw men. Where does your righteous indignation come from? Why do you judge that excitement about the new iPhone represents deluded people in pursuit of some false God? Have you always felt this way? Do you have investments in technology, including an iPhone or two? Or a nice car? Or a higher end blender? And if you do, are you a victim as well?
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It looks like the tents are from "professional line-sitting companies" where you pay someone to sit in line for you:
http://www.sameolelinedudes.com/home/
https://placerapp.com