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AT&T Vs. Apple Store At the iPhone Launch
MBCook tips an article at Gizmodo that begins with a reader's experiences trying to buy an iPhone yesterday at an AT&T store and an Apple store. Many, but not all, of the comments on the post echo this reader's experience: Apple good, AT&T bad. "Day one revealed what all Apple aficionados fear. That AT&T, through the depths of its incompetence, could derail the iPhone."
* Apple employees desperately hyping the iPhone in forums all over the Net
* Apple fans doing the same
* All the paid for 'news' stories
* All the legitimate marketing and commercials
* And all the other crap companies do to try to generate hype for a product
All for nothing. The iPhone hit the stores yesterday and the world yawned.
It's always broken by numbnuts Zonk, kdawson, or whoever.
Is it really that hard to keep a fucking blog running?!
Maybe I should go outside or something...
I wonder how much his colleagues paid him for the privilege of buying four despite only being one person in line?
I wonder how many people who did this for the Wii/PS3 weren't scalpers.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
I bought 4 regular smartphones and made a $1.2million dollar sale in the time you wasted trying to be hip by waiting to buy a iPhone.
I have corperate email integration done on all 4 before you even got past the touchy feely trendy box.
I'm making money with my tools, not trying to impress people into thinking I'm more than I really am.
iPhone, it's like driving a leased BMW only sadder. Let me guess, you drive a leased BMW and shave your head to hide that you are actually mostly bald (monk hair ring) and older than you want people to think you are.
I feel especially bad for the people who waited in line for hours, only to have some jerk in front of them buy up the last 4.
It's a fucking phone that quite frankly, you will care NOTHING about in 6 months because the Next OMGHI2U Best Thing is being trotted out by Father Materialism. How many more bits of consumerism must you buy before you realize you are the latest in a sad parade of chumps who lined up to buy Marco Polo's tea from the Orient, tulips in Sweden, Pet Rocks in the 70s, Cabbage Patch Dolls in the 80s, Nintendo 64s in the 70s, and now this. Will your life truly be complete because you now own the most overpriced phone of the moment? Or is this just the latest fix?
It's moments like this that truly make Islam look sane.
Obviously you have no clue...
No Landscape mode outside of Safari? How about Landscape with youtube, with movies, with TV shows, with music, with photos? Guess there's no landscape mode outside of Safari.
Say Hi to Hugo, and enjoy your freely elected dictator.
iPhone User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419.
Or get on a train for that matter. Pfft. Lousy 6 digit user.
While all of you morons were waiting on long lines for your iBrick, I was out listening to non-DRMed MP3's that I just copied to the flash card in my A-707 w/o having to use some god-awful buggy and inefficient middleware app.
I looked at an iPhone and quite honestly, there's nothing special about it except that mac weenies think it's a status symbol
But how can your waste karma on /. if you are an apple whore? Your first post has apple whore written all over it.
Posting AC because I _really_ did not feel like wasting karma on you.
PS: And No, I am not the GP.