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Line Forms At Apple's Always-Open Manhattan Cube
Posted by
timothy
on Thu May 22, 2008 04:58 PM
from the they-serve-the-best-anticipation-ice-cream-here dept.
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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Mass Hysteria (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mass Hysteria (Score:5, Informative)
It's usually better to wait for a while when a new product is released - that way someone else will have all problems.
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Re:Mass Hysteria (Score:5, Funny)
OS X and commodity x86 architectures living together?
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Re:Mass Hysteria (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Mass Hysteria (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but when we Apple fans do mass hysteria, it's in a hip, cool, stylish kinda way.
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The Onion (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Mass Hysteria (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but it's mass hysteria with hipsters and threesomes with hot vegetarian girls protesting the war.
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Re:good computers (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, it must be tough to deal with such huge crowds.
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The Time Machine (Score:5, Funny)
Apple... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Apple... (Score:5, Funny)
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The reason is marketing (Score:5, Insightful)
It's back! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's back! (Score:5, Interesting)
I once visited the Apple campus at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino. There was a big open, quadrangular courtyard. Each side of the quadrangle had a huge banner, like 20 feet tall, displaying an Apple product: there was a iBook, a PowerBook, an iMac, and a Power Mac. The huge banners made me think of something the Soviets might have put up to glorify Stalin and Lenin at Red Square to celebrate the revolution. And certainly, Steve Jobs is a bit like Stalin or Kim Jong Il in creating a cult of personality, and you could argue that his product announcements are like the Communist Party rallies held in the USSR, China, or North Korea.
Obviously there are limits to such an analogy. I don't imagine Apple-manufactured tanks, made of polycarbonate and brushed alumninum rolling into Eastern Europe. And I don't imagine Apple getting the bomb, or starving millions of people to death, or locking PC users into re-education camps where they are taught how to use a mouse with a single button. Still, the way Jobs and Apple appeal to people is oddly similar to the way totalitarian regimes do.
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Re:It's back! (Score:5, Funny)
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And verily, Our Lord Jobs Did Come Unto Them (Score:5, Funny)
And then did the Lord Jobs hand out the Holy 3G iPhone unto the chosen who harkened unto him, and it was good.
Improv Everywhere? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Improv Everywhere? (Score:5, Informative)
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Apple's newest product... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe they're British (Score:5, Funny)
Nothing that the British like more than moaning and queuing.
What's worse? (Score:5, Interesting)
OR
That this story gets media attention at all and has anti-macheads all in a sweat shouting "sheeple!" and trying to put various political/religious/fanboi spins on the story?
Meanwhile, at the Sony Style Store... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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Re:Ah, the wonderful, screaming world of retail. (Score:5, Insightful)
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].
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Re:Ah, the wonderful, screaming world of retail. (Score:5, Insightful)
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?
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Twitter (Score:5, Funny)
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