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Line Forms At Apple's Always-Open Manhattan Cube
SpectreBlofeld writes "According to EngadgetMobile, a line has formed in front of Apple's flagship Cube store in Manhattan. From the article: 'So word on the street (literally) is that a large number of people are queuing in line outside of Apple's flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York City — keep in mind the Cube is open 24 hours a day. Our intrepid girl-on-the-scene reports that the group is more than 60-deep, though most people seem confused about what they're waiting for, but some believe they're actually camping out for a 3G iPhone.' Prank, or mass hysteria?" I wonder if the crowd already has its own Flickr group set up -- if not, what are they waiting for on that front?
It's apple people. What ELSE could it be but mass hysteria? ;)
Does this remind anybody else of the Eloi gathering to be taken underground by the Morlocks?
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
You know Apple fandom is getting excessive when a product doesn't even need to exist to get hyped...
People lining up in front of stores in the hope that maybe there will be something for sale that they are after - sounds like the Soviet Union to me!
And the Lord Jobs did address the faithfully assembled masses, saying "Unto you my loyal supplicants I do bestow the bounty of the 3G iPhone, that ye may use it at all times, and in sickness, and in health, and in times of pestilence and low bandwidth, and it shall comfort thee."
And then did the Lord Jobs hand out the Holy 3G iPhone unto the chosen who harkened unto him, and it was good.
To beg for gasoline money.
The ILine :)
Cant wait until they perfect cloning.
I've been calling Apple fans lemmings for years. Finally I have clear and irrefutable evidence of herd behavour!
(Hint: This is tongue in cheek humour, you want to mod it funny not troll. Either that or there's nothing to see here, move along. The secret history of star wars says so, so it must be true).
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"Hi, I'm Twitter! I refer to my^H^Hhimself in the third person! I bother a busy store about products they don't support! I have a journal!"
Are they moaning as well?
Nothing that the British like more than moaning and queuing.
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
...line forms at supermarket checkout. More at 11.
Meanwhile, at the Sony Style store, 5 blocks away, the glow of HDTVs illuminated the vapid faces of salespeople in tshirts as they stared across the racks over empty aisles. Aisles of laptops, PS3s, CDs and other items went unpurchased, and no one was there to see it.
Brand name computer stores are the outlet for those too weak to resist the urge to make impulse purchases in excess of a month's income. The fact Apple has been able to capitalize on this trend so well speaks to the fetishistic appeal of those shiny laptops and the absence of any real value in their products. Convinced the worth of something that is not even there, people are literally waiting in line to buy nothing.
Truly, they are the dead.
M
Twitter is a tool.
Yes, it must be tough to deal with such huge crowds.
60 people? NYC's entire Mac-using population has shown up!It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
I've never seen people waiting outside of a cube to be assimilated!
A giant fanboy orgy is going to take place inside the cube. Steve Jobs will allow them all the blow him 10 seconds each.
Jokes aside, an Engadget story on slasdot, about Apple, on a queue. I know Apple is worshiped here, but can it go lower than this?
I saw this at the Soho, NYC apple store earlier today. People just getting in line for... what?
Is Apple really going to release a 3G iPhone with no advertising? *rolling eyes*
I'd be interested to read your references for the "historical fact that Mohammad dictated the Koran while in what modern people would call a seizer."
Not a lot of historical documents from that time period have survived, so I'm curious about your hidden stash of medical records. I'm also curious about your apparent collection of criminal (or are they professional?) records establishing the prophet as a baby-raper.
The God you worship may not like baby-rapers, but does he know how to spell "seizure"? I don't really care about the answer; I just want to use this opportunity to be a condescending punk and point out that you're not only delusional, but also can't spell properly.
You may also want to review the rules of English capitalization.
I mean; when people to queue up to buy something when they're not even sure what it IS that's a whole new level of success.
"Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation." -R. Feynman
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Let's see.
The French invented the modern tank in WWI, based on an original idea by the British.
Apple invented the modern WIMP UI in 1981/82, based on an original design by Xerox.
The French didn't really improve their tank after WWI, and were totally taken by surprise by German tank warfare.
Apple didn't really improve their OS after the '80s, and were totally taken by surprise by Microsoft Windows 95.
Yeh, sounds right.
Turns out the line was actually for the store bathroom, after the New York Times deemed it the "cleanest in Manhattan". Unfortunately it did not live up to this moniker for long.
Whispers are circulating concerning a new Apple offering, to be known as the "iNull". Apple's latest tech blockbuster is said to involve no hardware or software, will not be offered as an online service, will not be encumbered by DRM, and in fact will have no actual existence at all, either physical or virtual.
"Apple will change the way we look at nothingness as a society," said one industry insider. "This is game-changing. Everything you think you know about nothing is going to be swept away."
Mac enthusiasts are eager to be among the first to have an iNull, despite the inherent philosophical difficulties in "having" one. "I can't wait!" blurted one blogger, "Apple has once again shown how they 'think different'. In a world of gadgets, doodads and useless techno-gimmickry, they've brought forth something of unrivaled simplicity and elegance. Way to go!"
From a business perspective, the profit potential is limitless -- the iNull will have the lowest production cost of any Apple product to date, requiring no manufacturing, shipping, or inventory, although there will be a "significant" marketing campaign. Of the $499 price tag, Apple is expected to reap the lion's share as pure profit, with an unspecified percentage paid out as a licensing fee to the Sartre estate.
Soylent Green is peoplicious!
Ah, I wouldn't know. There's a certain advantage to talking to yourself. For a start, you have more common topics than with anyone else, although that's somewhat offset by the fact that you're not going to hear anything you didn't know already. It also takes all the fun out of telling jokes, lemme tell you.
You're also almost guaranteed to have the same moods at the same time. When you're in a mood to go see a movie, for example, so are you. I mean it's not like you're in a mood to watch the game, while you would rather talk about moving the furniture instead. No need to nod absentmindedly and go "uh-huh". Which is just as well, because you'd know it anyway. And when you're depressed, you can always cry on your own shoulder. (Come to think of it, more of the people on the Internet should be encouraged to use their own shoulder for that;)
And if you want to call yourself to dinner, but you're still at the last boss in a MMO raid... well, chances are you'll find a way to accomodate and understand yourself.
You can also save yourself not just the phone bill, but also the internet bill. You can just use Notepad as IRC, IM and pretty much any other text chat medium rolled in one. And you know you can accept any files or attachments. Heck, even if you sent yourself a virus, you had it already anyway.
Buying gifts for yourself is fun too. It takes all the guesswork out, and it's not like you'll buy yourself a tie you'll secretly hate but pretend to like so you don't offend yourself. Downside, it ruins the whole surprise big time. Plus side again, it'll probably be something both you and you can use, and you won't get into ownership disputes about it.
Romance tends to not work too well, though.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
"...though most people seem confused about what they're waiting for..."
So idiots line up at an Apple store, what else is new? How is this News?