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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?
So the link is "iphone-line-forms-at-apples-flagship-for-absolutely-no-reason." It seems quite obvious that the reason is marketing. Same as when there were lines at Apple stores selling iphones but not at AT&T stores selling iphones.
This post climbed Mt. Washington.
Maybe it's the same people who pulled off this stunt? http://improveverywhere.com/2006/04/23/best-buy/
I think that's up for debate, and really, this is most likely a social prank, not a mass gathering to encourage Apple to speed up production of the i[newest-product-name-goes-here].
Twitter, you need to learn the basic rules of social interaction.
That Apple employee did NOT care about your stupid canned lecture about Free Software(tm).
They didn't demonstrate setting up dual-booting with Windows, not because there's a vast corporate conspiracy against Free Software(tm), but because the display was already set up with all the steps laid out, and the employee wasn't going to spend 3 hours of a workday setting up Free Software(tm) for the sole purpose of demonstrating software that works the same with any 2nd OS.
The employees didn't like you, not because they're part of a vast corporate conspiracy against Free Software(tm), but because you went to an Apple store for the sole purpose of harassing employees about information you could have obtained much more easily with Google, JUST so you could give an absolutely retarded canned lecture about Free Software(tm) to an employee who didn't give a shit at all.
They kicked you out because you were acting like an obnoxious prick, not because you were asking too much about free software and/or you were embarrassing them with your superior knowledge of software and/or they were ignorant or forbidden to tell what they knew. In the future, just shut the fuck up, 'kay?
"Line forms spontaneously at NYC Apple Store" It sounds like a headline on The Onion! I guess we've been at the point where The Onion sounds like real life for some time now.
please move along.
What an odd post. An iPhone certainly isn't a month's income, nor is an iPod. Nor is a MacBook Pro for that matter.
How is a laptop or computer capable of running all three major OSes "absent of value"? How is an iPod?
I've never noticed twitter's trolling, assuming it exists. I have noticed the constant barrage of "you're a twitter sockpuppet", which is the only way I ever really notice the posts in question. So if twitter is trolling, they're not so trollish that they stand out above the background noise (I read at -1, so there's a fair bit of background noise). So, can you please shut the fuck up and stop polluting Slashdot with your whining? If I was a troll I'd have great admiration for twitter - they have succeeded where most fail in that every one of their posts gets numerous "stop trolling", "you're a twitter sockpuppet" replies. It's you and your ilk who need to stop feeding the trolls.
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
"I" have an iPhone "and a Macbook Pro for that matter" its a nice phone, but its a PHONE for fucks sake! I bought mine a month after the line standing dimwits got bored. What drives people to stand in line like like this? I may get a 3G iPhone at some point. I probably will, when the old phone is two years old. But to stand out on a street corner like a kid waiting for a new video game console? And don't just blame Mac users, just like iPods. There are plenty of iPhones hooked to PCs. "Can you blame them? I mean, have you LOOKED at Windows Mobile?"
Performance art, perhaps? Has anyone checked to see what Improv Everywhere is up to?
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
Ha, that's the funniest write up I've read. It seemed like a euphemistic way of describing how some guy walked into an apple store, stood on the Pulpit of GNU, and wondered why he irritated the hell out of people.
Geniuses are just college kids, nothing special there (specially in Louisiana). Sounds to me like they said their not trained to demo Linux and so couldn't do so. Makes sense, Boot Camp is just a boot loader. Anyone using linux can likely figure it out without issues. If they can't, the first hit on google tells you how.
Wonder if I ever ran into that pompous ass when I lived in LA.
His signature says it all: "Liberated in 1999." pffft
No actually, I'm on disability, I have very little money. So I bought a computer I'll get at least five years of real use out of instead of a two year throw away HP or Dell. As to replacing the phone, most people replace their phones every two years or so, the trendies replace them every six months. I'm certainly not discarding an 8 month old phone for GPS and faster networking. Sometimes buying the cheapest is not the best way to save money.
Okay, so that confirms that they're idiots, right? I mean, by all accounts the 3G iPhone will be in stores in less than a month. For the same price as what is currently available.
There is nothing wrong with #1. You don't have to ashamed of it. Its the other four, and you should really do something about it.