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Survey of Regent Street iPhone 4S Line Reveals Record Crowd and Other Tidbits

azzarocks86 said:
Thought the statistics for Mac owners, PC owners and "both" owners seemed a bit odd and after 5 seconds of thought and some kindergarten math I realized why...
39% I own a Mac
34% I own a PC
12% I own both

This leaves 15% of people lining up on launch day apparently not owning a computer? I know apple are pushing to make iOS devices a replacement for a desktop or laptop but I hardly think this change has happened in the year between the release of the iPhone 4 and the 4S, certainly not amongst the consumers who are willing to line up on launch day.
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I don't know anyone that would line up for an iPhone on launch day, but I do know a couple of people who don't own home computers but do own smart phones, they both work in office jobs where they can surf to their hearts content at work, both had computers at home until they shipped them off with their kids to college, a smart phone is all the internet they need at home.

I found the iPad stats interesting. 75% of people for the iPad or iPad2 are mac owners (mac + both) but much closer to 50% for the iPhones.
 
Weird....

On Wednesday morning I arose @ 3:30 am (I am usually up around 3:30-4am to work out before work). I went and took a CPO class and then test consisting of 8 hours. I arrived @ the ATT store @ 5:10pm Thursday (I have NEVER been 1st in all the 5 years of camping out, so I intended on being the #1 star this year!). Another Guy showed up @ approximately 5:30 pm. Him and I were the only 2 until 4:30am... He even drove past the best buy and Verizon store... NO ONE CAMPING OUT! When they got ready to open the doors, there was a total of 15 people standing outside...
I was far affected from this situation, because my goal was to be 1st! I was! and The ATT staff all know me from previous years. It felt good! When I stepped out of the store there were roughly 30 people. I plan on driving passed there to see what it looks like.
Allot of people do not know how iconic this version of the ip4s is.. they will soon enough! happy camping and good luck to those that yet do not have their device
 
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rmwebs said:
jayducharme said:
Exactly. The mouse was a gimmick when it first appeared. Eventually, it became an indispensable part of working with technology. Siri will be the same.
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Theres a slight difference here.

The mouse was brand new technology at the time, never before seen.

Concepts for Siri style devices were demoed by apple in 1987. There are thousands of voice controllable AI products out there...its not new....its just new to phones (even then not really since similar products have been on Android for a while).

Give it a year and Siri will be forgotten. Give it a month and you'll no longer be using it.
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Haha wasnt that exactly what some people(you?) predicted for the ipod/iphone/ipad?
 
MacRumors said:
But 33% of the crowd viewed Siri as a gimmick rather than a truly useful feature.
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So I guess me and the others here that expressed this same opinion and yet were downvoted to double digits here weren't so crazy.

I played around with Siri for about 15 minutes while waiting for my GF to get her 32 GB model at the Rogers store just an hour or so ago, and frankly, it's slow, it's innacurate (had trouble registering some words) and after about 5 minutes, I had no idea what try to have it do since the service is limited in Canada without the maps search feature.

I did set a reminder correctly, but it took quite a while to do so that it was simply faster inputting it manually in the Reminder app. Same for e-mail or anything really.

It's like I thought it would be, Voice Control on steroids. Frankly, if you bought the 4S for Siri, you might be disappointed. I'll keep playing around with it and wait for it to get out of beta, but it's not looking real useful now.
 
People need to remember that Siri is still beta software. Of course it's not perfect on launch day, but how could you look at it and not be impressed?!

To anyone who says this is just a gimmick that we'll all forget about in time, all I can say is that you truly lack the vision to see where all this is going. In five years, you're going to wonder how you ever called a phone 'smart' before you could have a conversation with it.
 
kalsta said:
People need to remember that Siri is still beta software. Of course it's not perfect on launch day, but how could you look at it and not be impressed?!

To anyone who says this is just a gimmick that we'll all forget about in time, all I can say is that you truly lack the vision to see where all this is going. In five years, you're going to wonder how you ever called a phone 'smart' before you could have a conversation with it.
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If it is more cumbersome and frustrating to use than more traditional interaction then it's a gimmick.

I've seen too many gimmicky voice control system, including the one in iPods, to believe that Siri is the holy grail. Then again, I haven't used it yet and I might be surprised.
 
kalsta said:
People need to remember that Siri is still beta software. Of course it's not perfect on launch day, but how could you look at it and not be impressed?!

To anyone who says this is just a gimmick that we'll all forget about in time, all I can say is that you truly lack the vision to see where all this is going. In five years, you're going to wonder how you ever called a phone 'smart' before you could have a conversation with it.
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Because it's just Voice control with natural language ? It still takes a god awful long time to process what you're saying and actually do what you want it to do ? It doesn't always register the words correctly ?

Of course it'll get better, that's what Voice control has been doing for the last 10 years. But as long as doing things the old way is faster, voice control will remain a gimmick.
 
100% of the participants in the poll had never used it, since it took place in the queue outside. So the 33% figure is a measure of expectation, nothing else. The most facsinating thing about it to me is the calendar scheduling and the geo-fence feature and the fact that it learns from behaviour and remember things about you and your contacts, sort of like a personal secretary.
 
subsonix said:
100% of the participants in the poll had never used it, since it took place in the queue outside. So the 33% figure is a measure of expectation, nothing else.
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Now that's I've used it, I stick to my original opinion. Will it change over time and updates ? Maybe.
 
gorgeousninja said:
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Haha wasnt that exactly what some people(you?) predicted for the ipod/iphone/ipad?
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Um...no. Just...no.

I have an iPod, iPad and iPhone. Loved them before and after they were released.

Sorry, I apologising for annoying arrogant fanboys by not thinking Apple implementing someone else's existing technology is a big thing...
 
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