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Here are some scenes from this morning's wait at the downtown Apple store in San Francisco. People stood, sat and squatted in line since late last night.
Adam Jackson (SFist commenter and he of Tenderloin Webcam fame) was the first one at the hallowed glassy doors. When asked to tell us about his time in line, Jackson explained to SFist, "I've been at every iPhone launch since the first generation and never before have I experienced such a powerful and positive group of people. The customers, employees and media were excited and when I held the phone in my hand, I shot a video and uploaded it to YouTube in under 10 seconds!"
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Or Adam Jackson could've just ordered it online and had it waiting for him when he showed up for work this morning. That's what I did. (Alas, that won't get my photo posted on SFist. Hmmm.)
I've sat in over 14 Apple related lines. I don't give a crap about the products. It's about the community, people and energy. My longest line sit was over 25 hours. It's just fun and one of my best friends was in front of me last year at the iPhone 3G release.
meeting people is easy.
meeting people is easy.
It took me all of 10 minutes to get my new iPhone today just after 10am. I walked two blocks from office to the downtown store, orange-shirted Apple employee checked my name of the rez list, then a blue-shirted employee ran through the transaction. Easy peasy.
I've never understood the obsession with electronics goods that leads people to wait in line for hours or days. go AMERICA!
I think they do that in other countries, too.
People line up for a lot things, movies, special jeans from tokyo, restaurants, etc...
like mr jackson said, some people enjoy doing that sort of thing, and the camraderie, i suppose.
they don't want what you want, so what?
Yeah, but in this case it's so unnecessary. Apple isn't going to run out of iPhones. You won't get them much (if any) sooner than if you just ordered it online or did what Davitydave did. Whereas, say, waiting in line for a movie makes some sense (urgency of getting good seats, don't want to wait and have the film spoiled), this just seems like a big waste of time. They're waiting in line for the sake of waiting in line.
It's for the camaraderie, man.
Point taken. Go worldwide obsession with consumer goods!
From professional experience, I can say without hesitation that the people who work at Apple (the corporation, not the stores necessarily) are assholes.
I deal with hundreds of electronic vendors yearly, and Apple is by far the least cooperative, least helpful and most arrogant of them all.
I won't buy Apple based on that alone.
Apple replace my work computers for free.
From professional experience, I can say without hesitation that the people who work at Apple (the corporation, not the stores necessarily) are assholes.
I deal with hundreds of electronic vendors yearly, and Apple is by far the least cooperative, least helpful and most arrogant of them all.
I won't buy Apple based on that alone.
I spoke to an Apple employee today who went out of her way to help me and was as kind as could be. It's only one example, but I was impressed by the level of care she executed in helping me. And I was just on the phone.
Just sharing. I am sure there are many nice folks who work for Apple. The ones I have dealt with don't seem very nice.
Maybe we should have asked that Marin beach masturbator to get in line. That would have thinned the crowd out a bit and sped things along.
Naw, he's been rendered obsolete by the new killer "Genital Shaker" app.
*clears throat*
ITS FUCKING CELL PHONE! Damn it! 'Experience' of waiting in line for a while? Go to a grocery store.
Sure you are surrounded by other dorks in dorksville, but isn't that what comic con and whatever con is all about? Do you need more?
It just blows my mind that people will waste their time waiting for something, where you could wait a day and pick it up whenever you feel like it.
It just blows my mind that people will waste their time trolling when they could have easily skipped over a post that has no interest to them.
I don't get why people would wait in line for any consumer product these days...much less an iPhone. But as long as they aren't bothering me, I really don't care. But...it's definitely something you won't see me doing anytime soon.