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Apple Store Fans Camp Out for 24 Hours
Xeo writes "A bunch of dedicated Mac geeks have camped out 24 hours early at the 3rd street Apple store in Santa Monica, CA. One of them is keeping a running web site of his experience. Refresh often to check out his continuing adventures." I waited for a couple of hours to get into the Cambridge, MA Apple Store when it opened. That's one night I'll never get back.
Don't they know they can shop online?
Or they could just drive to another store quicker!
Those crazy kids.
if you've read the article and it doesn't have the info you want, how could the summary have it?
Lasers Controlled Games!
...then you could never understand!
Apparently, so do these people.
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Friday, July 11 2003
As I write this, at nearly 8 PM Pacific time..
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The new G5 is so fast, it warps time!
By my watch, it's only 5:46pm Pacific Time.
-ajb
Or Triumph rehashing his Starwars line jokes.
Decisions decisions.
It'll be interesting in 10 years, when much like new albums from popular or unpopular artists, trading cards, and pogs, this guy realizes he wasted his life persuing things when life just passed him buy.
24 hours at a time.
-n
That Los Angeles has an apple store not 30 minutes away in decent traffic.
Photos.
The kind cool thing is that these guys stayed up all night, foregoing any sleep at all -- and when dawn came there was still no one else in line. So the effort wasn't just to beat out other fanboys (there being no one to beat out that early), it was also to hold an expectant vigil on the doorstep of thier favourite fruit company. Everyone else who got a good night's sleep and woke up to condemn them is missing the point, big time.
Why would they buy their Mac online with a measly OneClick(tm) when they can have a real-life adventure? Makes sense to me... it's not like they were holed up in a line for a new Gateway Store or Attack of The Clones or something.
I'm sure I'll get modded down as a troll for this, but my god!! I was wondering what could be more pathetic than someone hanging out waiting for a new computer store to open. Then, there it was: someone who would sit there clicking refresh in his browser in order to follow the "adventures" of the person hanging out waiting for the computer store to open....
Better to sit alone in front of your computer on friday night mocking him on a web discussion board he may not even read. :-)
Having a girlfriend reduces your geek factor to a good, hard, solid 0. You simply aren't dedicated enough to be a geek if you can afford to maintain a female.
It's 5:24 am here and the last update is 2 am. What are these guys doing, sleeping? Let's get with it, folks, these fine Apple products are not going to appreciate themselves!!!!
...and some Wireless StarCraft will be had.
I know, I know. I was just taking the opportunity to be a bit "cheeky". It's the name "Boxing Day", it always makes me think of two guys duking it out over some leftover Christmas presents. But hey, I'm all for more days off from work!
Sapere aude!
Yes, but she has to know that she's your girlfriend. Otherwise, it doesn't count.