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The whole queue thing I think is accepted more stateside. Try doing it over here and most places will call security and have you removed !
Also lots of the Apple stores / O2 stores over here are in shopping centres that close outside of normal hours so the closet you can get it queuing outside the mall itself - which is even crazier looking !
Nige
The 3G ipHone is really no big deal, but it's fun to wait in line with other people with the same interests.
Have fun.
Apple better hope that the lines are not long this year, because they won't be moving as fast as an Apple employee swiping a credit card and giving you a phone. In-store activation is going to slow things down ten-fold.
Lines will not be as long because the 3G iPhone AT&T plans are too expensive and the cost of the phones are too high for people who do not qualify for an upgrade.
There are more details on my site here:
http://www.joeranft.com/2008/07/6-more-reasons-...
From FF: Actually, I'm considering waiting in line again. Someone at Apple has already guaranteed my order (we're buying our entire company 3G iPhones just like we did last year). So why would I wait? Because it's fun. Like Robert, I had a blast last year and met some great people. I don't need "famous" anyone to have fun - I just like meeting new people who are passionate about things, especially technology
I built you that mockup we discussed at IO. See the bottom right section of this mockup of your blog:
http://iphone.uds.googlepages.com/scoble.html
The little feed control I added takes a pile of feed descriptions and displays the linked titles, can auto-refresh to select a new subset of feeds, etc. We use this on our blogs to eliminate the long blogrolls, and we have several commercial sites using this control as well. For more info: http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/partnerbar/
also, is it just me thats strangely reminded of the food queues of the Soviet? a very paradoxical thought, but i cant shake it...
Monkeyleader: actually I've waited in four of Apple's lines (three for store openings).
Yeah, thats the ticket. You see a news photo of a family in line, and you immediately think child abuse. Christ. You have no idea how long that child was in the line, or whether it was being "abused".
And Robert, I agree. I didn't wait in line for the iPhone, but have done so for rock concerts and the like in my youth-the most fun is just being in line with others who share your passion, not sure why people get so bent out of shape about what OTHER people choose to do with their time, not to mention immediately getting holier than thou about their children.
Jaguar
Tiger
Leopard
iPhone 1.0
iPhone 2.0 (next week)
3 Apple Store Openings.
For me, it was fun watching you and Thomas Hawk on Ustream through the night as you chatted with random people walking by and answered questions in the chatroom. I just googled and found Brian's blog on the Palo Alto experience, I wish I had been there - It looked like a fun and magical experience. http://bub.blicio.us/?p=248
What a difference a year makes!
"Oh yeah and hey âTâ you obviously are better then everyone here but I have a hard time seeing what value of any amount you have added to the world maybe you should start working on that then saying we need to get lives."
Well, we now know the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. Since your Dad is King, you can be Prince of the non-sequiturs. What does that comment have anything to do with "T"'s comment? If you feel foolish about waiting in line for a product and think "T" struck a nerve, have the guts to say so. "T" does have a point. Waiting 30 hours in line for ANYTHING (except maybe a vital organ) is really pretty foolish.
Robert, name one "famous CEO" you saw that anyone on Wall Street would recognize immediately.
Update 2: According to a Fortune report on the group, five of the ten have already hit the road, and New York City cops sent the baby packing not long after we visited the scene.
The v2 is a phone worth buying...GPS, apps etc. The v1 - not so much.
Until Vodafone NZ released the price tag and the contract plans! :-(
More info - http://www.vodafone.co.nz/iphone/index.jsp
Won't be so cold that way!
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