I start at the end of the line and walk to the store. Today’s column in PC Magazine explains this phenomenon. Click here to read.
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Besides Roger Chang, did anybody else recognise you? Did you go to the same store that Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose went to?
with a cameo by Roger Chang!
Question: Did any of the Apple stores sell out before everyone that waited go one (or two)?
Personally, I went down to my local Apple store at 8:30, and they had plenty.
#1 Actually yes all of 4 people said hi.
#4 read todays PC Mag column
#4 Only for cult like items ala Apple iAnything and yes, xBoxs
What I like about this most is hearing the random bits of conversation as people pass by.
Yeah, I like the dissociated nature of the comments too. I think I’ll do more of these sorts of videos.
Roger’s cool.
John, I like this much more than Lomography.
9. Lots of sheep in that crowd, hope you were able to avoid the droppings.
That video was surreal. I think it was sort of like how a deity would see the world, walking by catching a few snippets of existence here and there.
#10 – Considering I live over 1000 miles away – not a problem. Sheep stand around in crowds – both sides of a street, btw.
12. Sorry Ed, meant for 8.
What a nice group of people.
Mark, we’re ALL sheep for something or other… even you.
Watching the clip reminded me of a black-humor joke in the late eighties, during the notorious scarcity of vital food supplies in Poland. The joke goes like this: A Polish chap converses with his pal… “I’m going to Krakow to find some bread” he says… “Strange”, his pal responds, “I heard that it’s only in Warsaw where you can find bread nowadays…”. “That’s right”, our guy responds, “…but, it is in Krakow where you can join the tail of the queue!”
“It’s sleek, its simple and it’s got a great interface,” is the best overhead comment. Sounds scripted.
Starbucks gets the free publicity prize.
Did anyone get what the protesters or protesting?
Can’t wait for the ‘nobody is interested in the iPhone’ coterie to join this thread.
14. Maybe, but I cant think of ANYTHING that I would stand in line for. Especially not a gadget.
‘protesters are protesting”
“Can’t wait for the ‘nobody is interested in the iPhone’ coterie to join this thread.”
You’ll have to wait a while Podesta, the naysayers are out grazing. 😉
Mark, do you stand in line to vote? Do you line up at the till to buy groceries? Do you stand in line to get on a ride at a theme park? etc., etc ,…
#20,
I never stand in line to vote, but then I live in a republican district. Always a surplus of voting machines here. And we get a paper ballot, and no one checks ID’s and no one ever gets challenged. On the other hand one couty over in the shadow of detroit where just about everyone works in giant factories, totally different situation.
On the other hand, my criticisms of iPhone v1.0 stand, I will however being standing in line for v2.0
Damn, Woz is fat!!
My first reaction is I hope you will criticize the lemming like behavior of these people the way you enjoy doing the religious folk.
Of course, most religious people I know do not come close to displaying the creepy fervor these and apple zealots do.
As John mentions in his article, this is creepy in some mystical way.
Other ways also. What’s wrong here?
#20 — I do not stand in line to vote. I live in a small community and there are no such lines. I seldom stand in line for groceries as I shop when the store is empty. And if there is a lineit is one or two people not 500. Finally, I tend to get one of the fast passes at theme parks.
What initial criticisms? the one where the iphone screen would get all scratchy? A key won’t even scratch it. The pne where dropping it one would destroy a $600 phone? Sorry, dropping it many times (several on concrete) from 6 feet up, did little more than scratch the case. The glass screen survived intact and the iPhone kept on ticking. How about the impossible sales of 10 million by Dec. 2008? Here’s an expert’s opiniopn from today’s Wall Street Journal…
>> “Our checks show that better-than-expected supply and mix throughout the weekend was met by a frenzy of demand, driving our unit, ASP [average selling price], and margin expectations for iPhone higher. We now think that Apple unit sales over the weekend were at least double our prior 350,000 estimate . . . and we have increased our iPhone forecast to 5.25 million for calendar 2007 and 12 million for 2008, up from four million and 10.5 million, respectively.
–David C. Bailey, of Goldman Sachs, who has a “buy” rating
John, that’s nice for you, but that’s not the reality for most Americans. There are lineups everywhere, and most Americans can’t avoid them, and/or are simply willing to wait. Also you are over 50, but when you were younger you never lined up for a concert or movie with your like-minded friends? If not i feel sorry for you.
26. I lost my voteing priveledges when I became a resident of the Virgin Islands, My wife does the grocery shopping, and I havent been to an amusement park since I became a grown up. I wont go to a movie if there is a line out front (more than 10 people or so). Its a consequence of being in the service once, where you stand in line for everything. So, no, I dont stand in line.
#25,
It is a phone! That is it. While it does make my existing phone look clunky as hell, I just purchased transformers sneak preview tickets on it for tonight. On the other hand, my understanding is, movietickets.com does not yet work on the iPhone.
Greg, I know it’s just another gadget. I don’t even want one and if i was given one i probably wouldn’t use it. That’s not the point.
My point is that those young people are no different than you or I were at that age. A rock concert has been replaced by an entertainment unit, that’s all. There were lineups for the Wii, and the XBox 360 as well.
They aren’t hurting anyone, and they seem like a decent lot. Criticizing them show’s a person’s cranky old age. 🙂
#29
Dude!!! why can’t you feel happy for me??? I have transformer tickets!!! For tonight!
The best word to describe this:
LEMMINGS