For the record I will be one of those idiots tonight standing in line. I will definitely order a phone online depending on where the line is at when I get there.
What a miserable life only being happy when only positive comments are made about your religious devotion to an electronics company. Traditional religion is bad enough, but is this now where we're heading: where we think of corporations as infallible and where they can't be criticized (if it's the religion we've chosen)? Is there going to be a civil war within ten years between Apple and Samsung devotees? Will they have to live in different neighborhoods? Will they then eventually demand independence from each other?
The fact is that Adonis is completely correct. It looks like about 30 people on line. I've seen more people on line at fashion shops for teens when they have a flash sale. That doesn't mean the new iPhones won't be successful -- I'm sure they'll be enormously successful, but it does mean that it's perfectly reasonable to state that a small group of sad looking, badly dressed morons who are waiting on line overnight for a phone that they could have ordered online is not a legitimate news story. I'm no Samsung fan, but when they make fun of these idiots, I have to admit that they're a deserving target.
And if you're interested in positive spin, the media has pretty much become anti-Apple, looking for any fault they can find. My bet is that they use this small line as a negative story, not a positive one. Today's NY Post has a cover story about the server problems at Apple, expressed with all the glee they would have if a Democrat got caught with their pants down.
Oh how horrible for anything to be at all "uncool!"
You jaded skeptics keep using the same old tactic of exaggerating something into something which it isn't, and then refuting that exaggeration. It's NOT a religion, for cryin' out loud.
It's simply love of a company and its products and a little enjoyable camaraderie with other like-minded people.
I've stood in such lines myself, once for the opening of Apple retail store #9 in Tampa, and once at an AT&T store for the first iPhone. There were five ahead of me at the Apple store, and there were 13 in front of me at the AT&T store. The numbers don't matter to anyone in line, so they certainly shouldn't matter to anyone else.
It's up to the line-waiters whether or not it's worth it, and not to anyone else.
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For the record I will be one of those idiots tonight standing in line. I will definitely order a phone online depending on where the line is at when I get there.
Hope the 5S isn't out stock for too long. Want one, but not nearly enough to sleep outside in London in September.
If the queue was only an hour long outside I'd still be put off. It's f**king freezing out there.
Hope the 5S isn't out stock for too long. Want one, but not nearly enough to sleep outside in London in September.
If the queue was only an hour long outside I'd still be put off. It's f**king freezing out there.
Do like me and pitch a tent.
Around 12:30am in China, the Apple Online store said 5s was shipping within 7-10 days. 30 minutes later, it said shipping in October.
Must have been English people, they always wait in lines.
Do like me and pitch a tent.
Won’t you get bagged for public indecency?
Not indecency ... indetent
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Thank you hill60. Is that taken with your new phone, or an 'old' 5? They look good.
Do you guys think I'll be able to get a silver 64GB 5S on-line tonight at 3am? Or is this a hopeless gesture?
Retina iPad, I finally figured out how to post photo's
The line now disappears around the corner, one and a half hours to go.
They just announced the gold has already sold out
This is looking grimmer and grimmer by the second.
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Thought you already got 2. Family perhaps? Anyhoo, congrats!
What a miserable life only being happy when only positive comments are made about your religious devotion to an electronics company. Traditional religion is bad enough, but is this now where we're heading: where we think of corporations as infallible and where they can't be criticized (if it's the religion we've chosen)? Is there going to be a civil war within ten years between Apple and Samsung devotees? Will they have to live in different neighborhoods? Will they then eventually demand independence from each other?
The fact is that Adonis is completely correct. It looks like about 30 people on line. I've seen more people on line at fashion shops for teens when they have a flash sale. That doesn't mean the new iPhones won't be successful -- I'm sure they'll be enormously successful, but it does mean that it's perfectly reasonable to state that a small group of sad looking, badly dressed morons who are waiting on line overnight for a phone that they could have ordered online is not a legitimate news story. I'm no Samsung fan, but when they make fun of these idiots, I have to admit that they're a deserving target.
And if you're interested in positive spin, the media has pretty much become anti-Apple, looking for any fault they can find. My bet is that they use this small line as a negative story, not a positive one. Today's NY Post has a cover story about the server problems at Apple, expressed with all the glee they would have if a Democrat got caught with their pants down.
Oh how horrible for anything to be at all "uncool!"
You jaded skeptics keep using the same old tactic of exaggerating something into something which it isn't, and then refuting that exaggeration. It's NOT a religion, for cryin' out loud.
It's simply love of a company and its products and a little enjoyable camaraderie with other like-minded people.
I've stood in such lines myself, once for the opening of Apple retail store #9 in Tampa, and once at an AT&T store for the first iPhone. There were five ahead of me at the Apple store, and there were 13 in front of me at the AT&T store. The numbers don't matter to anyone in line, so they certainly shouldn't matter to anyone else.
It's up to the line-waiters whether or not it's worth it, and not to anyone else.
That Store is open 24/7; why don't they wait inside?
Because they're not buying right away, and they have some manners.