Line Forms At Apple's Always-Open Manhattan Cube 445
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?
The reason is marketing (Score:5, Insightful)
Improv Everywhere? (Score:5, Insightful)
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].
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?
Re:Mass Hysteria (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Ah, the wonderful, screaming world of retail. (Score:3, Insightful)
The Onion (Score:5, Insightful)
Nothing to see here... (Score:2, Insightful)
Hype! (Score:-1, Insightful)
Windows 7. Hyped because Vista is a failure.
Re:Meanwhile, at the Sony Style Store... (Score:2, Insightful)
How is a laptop or computer capable of running all three major OSes "absent of value"? How is an iPod?
Re:Ah, the wonderful, screaming world of retail. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Improv Everywhere? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Ah, the wonderful, screaming world of retail. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Don't worry. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Mass Hysteria (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Mass Hysteria (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Ah, the wonderful, screaming world of retail. (Score:2, Insightful)
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
Re:Mass Hysteria (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:They got a shipment of iPhones in (link) (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Giant orgy (Score:1, Insightful)