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Some sad scenes from this morning...
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Yeah they are a closed-circuit and out of the loop cultural cluster of garbage because they dont keep up with the times or evolve and lost any trendsetter status in art and culture since the dawn of the internet era sorry if you live there nothing personal.
It's no longer fun because of the scalpers.
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Have you actually been in one of those lines? It DOES look like a refugee camp.
It's not due to the race alone. They look like poor foreigners probably working for some shady business people. Your typical iPhone geeks do NOT look like that and are NOT in Apple nor Samsung...nor Microsoft's ads. All of those ads feature people of various races who look affluent or young and geeky.
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Pictures moved to Google Drive as host because Dropbox has a traffic limit
Nice, thanks.
Geez, those are sad. Honestly some of those people look like the Chinese mafia forced them to scalp for them or something. I know they've been there awhile but they don't look happy AT ALL.
Scenes like this would have been common in most cities. It's disheartening when every second or third customer you serve is blatantly there to try and flip whatever they get.
Paying with precisely loaded gift cards or cash, then asking how to get more.
It's so hard to even get mad at these people, mostly they've blatantly been put up to the task because they need whatever meagre cash they get paid by someone higher up.
Paying with precisely loaded gift cards or cash, then asking how to get more.
It's so hard to even get mad at these people, mostly they've blatantly been put up to the task because they need whatever meagre cash they get paid by someone higher up.
Capitalism = The Great American Dream. What did your fore fathers endure when the first arrived into this country in order to scrap by? Most of these people don't seem affluent to me, and might be barely making ends meet. As long as they are not doing anything illegal, who are we to judge them? Just saying...
PS. Keep in mind that should one choose to, one could have lined up with them instead of preordering online.
PS. Keep in mind that should one choose to, one could have lined up with them instead of preordering online.
I was going to say the same. It didn't seem like most were there to get an iPhone for themselves. Was this a bad stereotype?
I'm so glad I don't live in New York. Sorry if that offends anyone, but that city is such a cesspool and this is just another example. We had a nice orderly lineup with lots of decent people and camaraderie over in my neck of the woods.
Who cares if they are offended, it's true. Ridiculous real estate prices, and all of it inflated by illicit overseas dollars, looking to park cash. NYC is overpopulated, many areas are pretty gross. Trash everywhere, smells like garbage. Can't move, can't breath, zero space to yourself.
Some urban paradise. You can keep it.
Pictures moved to Google Drive as host because Dropbox has a traffic limit
The pictures still aren't loading for me.
Link to the individual folder they're in on gDrive? After reading these posts I really wanna see those photos!
Depends the day of the week where the trash is laid out in the sidewalks all over the city for the garbage truck to pick it up. You can find from regular and recycling garbage to used and fully working electronics and furniture.
I'm pretty sure that the city would give s fine to the store if they don't clean up because of this.
As a New Yorker, I'll just point out that what you refer to as NYC is actually the borough of Manhattan. Some areas of the city really are gorgeous, and others like the one you see pictured are not. NYC is made up of 4 other boroughs, which really are very different from Manhattan, and can be a quite nice place to live
That being said, there are some really ugly areas of the city, including the one you see pictured above.
That being said, there are some really ugly areas of the city, including the one you see pictured above.
Thanks for sharing the pictures. If I were Apple I would send some employees to record history out of their stores because the only way to record history is taking pictures or video like you
Why the police is taking the serial numbers of the boxes? Is to stop theft of iphones in New York?
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New York is beautiful I would love to live there. It is a magical place and the central park is amazing
Why the police is taking the serial numbers of the boxes? Is to stop theft of iphones in New York?
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As a New Yorker, I'll just point out that what you refer to as NYC is actually the borough of Manhattan. Some areas of the city really are gorgeous, and others like the one you see pictured are not. NYC is made up of 4 other boroughs, which really are very different from Manhattan, and can be a quite nice place to live
That being said, there are some really ugly areas of the city, including the one you see pictured above.
New York is beautiful I would love to live there. It is a magical place and the central park is amazing
It's obvious that Apple needs to re-evaluate how they launch future products. China needs to be a part of the first wave of product releases so that the market is flooded with enough product to quell the demand. Scalpers need to be brought to their knees. Sick of it.