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Some sad scenes from this morning...

As a father, seeing those babies and kids having to suffer through that makes me furious. It reminds me of what happened at Greenspoint Mall here in Houston when the Jordan XI Concords released. I felt bad for those babies and kids being forced to wait in line with their parents for a pair of shoes.


Although watch this video at the 1:04 mark. Still cracks me to this day. I hope my baby never catches it. LOL.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYQ-P4bdco
 
JoshS said:
Almost that whole line look like people working for scalpers. That is NOT an Asian neighborhood and there is another apple store much closer to Chinatown.

The people with the babies are prolly hoping to make some easy money waiting online to bring the phones back to the scalpers.

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Hey Reverend Al: there's nothing racist about it. The west village has very little Asian population. It's an observation and an accurate one at that.
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Post photos of a line mainly consisting of people of a certain race and call it a "refugee camp". Then you compare that to a line of white people of and say that is what "typical" iPhone user’s look like. I have noticed a lot of racism on this forum this morning.
 
JoshS said:
Almost that whole line look like people working for scalpers. That is NOT an Asian neighborhood and there is another apple store much closer to Chinatown.
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Pretty much. I have observed this too, going back to the iPad 2 when I got in early to purchase one. China and other Asian countries tend to be second and third-wave launches, and there is a huge grey market for buying them stateside when they come out and immediately putting them on eBay to whoever will buy at the highest price, which may or may not be from China and other later-wave countries.

It's unfortunate, and I would imagine that easily half of the preorders online were scalpers, too.

Hey Reverend Al: there's nothing racist about it. The west village has very little Asian population. It's an observation and an accurate one at that.
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The photos speak for themselves, but even putting aside the apparent race of many of these people in the no-reservation line: It's still reprehensible that so many people, WHOEVER they are, are making infant children put up with standing in line for so long, with no benefit to them, and not even a guarantee that their parents will get something out of it.
 
SetHutBlue42 said:
Some of those pictures are seriously depressing. I know people say that "experience" of waiting in line on launch day is fun, but this doesn't look like fun to me at all.
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The "experience" went with the iPhone 4. Since then it's just rude, arrogant (organised, not individual) scalpers, who throw abuse at anyone not in their group. They barge, jump the queue, let their family/friends in, etc.

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budselectjr said:
Post photos of a line mainly consisting of people of a certain race and call it a "refugee camp". Then you compare that to a line of white people of and say that is what "typical" iPhone user’s look like. I have noticed a lot of racism on this forum this morning.
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It's not racist, it's the truth. Here in the UK, every iPhone queue this morning would have been compromised of probably 95% people of asian descent, all of whom are working for the same people.

FWIW: these people aren't scalpers themselves. They're paid a small sum (when I spoke to some a few years back, it was £30 per phone) for buying and passing them on.
 
This is just sad.

It's a phone people. A stupid phone. A device to make phone calls.

I don't see why anyone at all should bother even waiting in line for it.
 
Brian Y said:
The "experience" went with the iPhone 4. Since then it's just rude, arrogant (organised, not individual) scalpers, who throw abuse at anyone not in their group. They barge, jump the queue, let their family/friends in, etc.

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It's not racist, it's the truth. Here in the UK, every iPhone queue this morning would have been compromised of probably 95% people of asian descent, all of whom are working for the same people.

FWIW: these people aren't scalpers themselves. They're paid a small sum (when I spoke to some a few years back, it was £30 per phone) for buying and passing them on.
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Well here in NJ half the people in line were Chinese. I even sold one of them my extra iPhone for $100 profit. I have zero issues with what they do, we live in a capitalist society and they get in line before anyone else. Stop complaining.
 
Brian Y said:
The "experience" went with the iPhone 4. Since then it's just rude, arrogant (organised, not individual) scalpers, who throw abuse at anyone not in their group. They barge, jump the queue, let their family/friends in, etc.
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I was just thinking the other day how fun it was getting my iPhone 4 the day after launch when so many people who pre-ordered gave up on the line. Those days are gone... people will die in that line before they give up their pre-order.
 
Mostly asian scalpers who pay cash. Happens every release. Most folks are content with ordering online and having UPS bring it to them.
 
Wow, the aesthetics, the weather, the grey hues and tones.

New York really is a closed circuit $h!Thole.

Its sad because just a couple decades ago the "Big Apple" (pun intended) was still relevant....
 
Phonzoxd said:
All your images are broken.

Ill be heading down to the soho store in a hour to pick up my pre order.
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for me too

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RickMC said:
Why is it always Asians who are first in line? Bunch of nerds.
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They have the most money to make because of arbitrage. The iPhone 6 has not released in China, so it's a huge status symbol for someone to flaunt it over there, even if it's only for a few weeks or a month more. People have enough disposable income to pay tens of thousands for the ability to flaunt an exclusive Western device for a couple of weeks.
 
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