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Line Forms At Apple's Always-Open Manhattan Cube

Posted by timothy on from the they-serve-the-best-anticipation-ice-cream-here dept.

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?

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  1. Mass Hysteria by Erioll · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's apple people. What ELSE could it be but mass hysteria? ;)

    1. Re:Mass Hysteria by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's apple people. What ELSE could it be but mass hysteria? ;)

      OS X and commodity x86 architectures living together?

    2. Re:Mass Hysteria by flyingsquid · · Score: 5, Funny
      It's apple people. What ELSE could it be but mass hysteria? ;)

      Yeah, but when we Apple fans do mass hysteria, it's in a hip, cool, stylish kinda way.

    3. Re:Mass Hysteria by Pollardito · · Score: 5, Funny

      nothing to see here. just a bunch of people seeking iGuidance, looking for an iPurpose to live

  2. The Time Machine by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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
  3. It's back! by fstolze · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

    1. Re:It's back! by stableos · · Score: 5, Funny

      Anyone wanna come stand in the Zune line with me?

    2. Re:It's back! by argent · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't imagine Apple-manufactured tanks, made of polycarbonate and brushed alumninum rolling into Eastern Europe.

      They never do, not until it's too late.

  4. And verily, Our Lord Jobs Did Come Unto Them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Apple's newest product... by hyperz69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The ILine :)

  6. Twitter by twatt3r · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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!"

  7. Meanwhile, at the Sony Style Store... by techsoldaten · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  8. Re:Apple... by Selfbain · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whatever is in there, it's the only thing I've ever wanted! - Fry

    --
    Well, it has never been successfully tested.
  9. Obligatory Borg Comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've never seen people waiting outside of a cube to be assimilated!

  10. Re:Apple... by mrslacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Guess you haven't seen this ;-)

    http://www.misterbg.org/AppleProductCycle/

    hth.