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- john2kx, on 07/14/2008, -16/+142What are you waiting in line for?
- to be fleeced by AT&T
Why are you waiting in line for a phone?
- because I like being the beta tester guinea pig of questionable launch hardware.
Won't iPhone 3G still be available next week?
- (no response, just a recently vacated spot in the line)
How long have you been waiting in line?
- just a bit less than the the guy in front of me, and a bit more than the guy behind me.
What's teh difference between iPhone 3G and the original iPhone
- it's newer. And faster, maybe? I dunno.
Can I buy your spot in line?
By helping maintain this enormous line, i'm doing you a favor by indirectly discouraging you from wasting your money on something that will be put to shame by another device within a month or two. - tama00, on 07/15/2008, -17/+94OH MY GOD IM SICK OF THE IPHONE!!!!
- darkchild82, on 07/14/2008, -8/+56'Cos Steve Jobs is capable of making mortals wait in line
- MarshalBanana, on 07/15/2008, -1/+37consumer culture *****.
- Schmich, on 07/15/2008, -1/+30Sorry to ask but is this a joke or is he "super cerial"? I'm bad at detecting sarcasm as nothing surprises me nowadays...
- ZephyrNinety, on 07/15/2008, -0/+24That's cool. Hope you like your phone 'cause I like my phone. Now get on with it.
- J3EBS, on 07/15/2008, -1/+25I bet when Steve Jobs takes a *****, it comes out smooth, shiny, and communicates with the ***** he took earlier in the day.
As opposed to Bill Gates, who just ***** money. - dvsbastard, on 07/15/2008, -2/+24The way some people go on about it, you would think that the iPhone is some super exclusive status symbol that only a select elite of society has access too...
It is just another consumer product (albeit a good one), and you are just a product of marketing... - theradical, on 07/15/2008, -4/+25you misspelled morons.
- spywire, on 07/15/2008, -9/+26yea we are inferior..
two weeks later, apple will drop the price for 299 and i don't even have to wait in line. - sesstreets, on 07/15/2008, -2/+17Maddox would frown upon these peoples shenanigans.
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -20/+31I love my iPhone more than any gadget I’ve ever owned. Frankly, I can’t imagine being without it. That said, the 3G model isn’t as compelling an upgrade as I had anticipated. So I’ll be sitting on my gen 1 device for a bit to see how things play out.
- Velnich, on 07/15/2008, -0/+11I won't downplay how awesome it probably is, but in the end, it's just a really really cool tool that the phone companies are using to rape your wallet bloody.
If you are already getting raped by your phone company for roughly the same amount, congrats on this fashionably functionable step up. - YancyFryJr, on 07/15/2008, -2/+12Take solace in the fact that the money you spend on an iPhone today will finance the vastly improved iPhone that I buy three years from now.
I thank you. - str3ama, on 07/15/2008, -2/+12I like technology or else I wouldn't be here on Digg, but personally I don't see the point in waiting in line for an item I know I can get in a few days time without having to go through the crap that those staying in line are subjected to. I can't emphasize how much I HATE crowds, and if it means waiting a few days to avoid them I'm all the more happy to do so.
- ineedmotivation, on 07/14/2008, -23/+32john2kx.....well said....this waiting in line for a mere phone is just beyond pathetic. When you life is ruled by a piece of equipment like this, it's sad!
- superkendall, on 07/15/2008, -3/+12Since the price is already $100 lower than that, you hit the party kind of late buddy.
- edwartica, on 07/15/2008, -0/+8I'm hoping its sarcsm. If not, maybe we should send this guy to mars. Only, forget to bring him back.
- bluechips23, on 07/15/2008, -7/+15Wait for BlackBerry Thunder to come out in fall. iPhone fan boys will wet their pants.
- TizzleDizz, on 07/15/2008, -4/+12I have nothing against Apple, don't get me wrong, I just think waiting in line for more than a week (honestly even more than a day) is just ridiculous. Do you really not have anything better to do? I would just wait down the hype a few days and order one online or something, it's still the same phone.
- halexmar6, on 07/15/2008, -2/+9""It is the most advanced handheld device ever known to humanity and probably the universe.""
...so advanced that when u receive images from inferior "devices" you have to memorize a ridiculous code (because the "device" is so advance copy and paste is for idiots) and enter it into a site to then finally view the image sent by inferior devices more primitive people use.
Also, you forgot to mention that "real GPS" is what has replaced traditional GPS....the difference?..."real GPS" is using cell(sorry for the primitive language) towers to give a position rather than...well, forget it.
Sincerely,
insomnia/boredom - enzomedici, on 07/15/2008, -4/+11
Anyone waiting in line for an iPhone is a complete loser. - waydee, on 07/15/2008, -12/+19Shut up about iphone, fanboys. Buried as spam.
- kroni, on 07/15/2008, -2/+9I'm sure that the guys diggin' down comments against iPhone are fanboys that waited in line for hours all smelly and sweaty just to buy this piece of *****... get over it, is a ***** phone and does not supply your lack of real life, you are not special by having one... is like the Juanitas and Tyrones on their damn Scalades thinking they are the *****... well, they are *****, not the *****... you, iPhone owner too, you are *****
- kelsosmythe, on 07/15/2008, -3/+9I'll hold onto my JVC RC-M90 and walk the streets with my Motorola DynaTAC securely holstered to my waist..
Thank you very much. - d686, on 07/15/2008, -1/+7pnunn: nice rationalization... so the only people who could afford the iphone waited in line and now own one and everyone else is just jealous? damn. someone tell apple, cause i'm pretty sure they expect to sell a bunch more of them to people who bizarrely think they can survive just sans iphone 3g even though it is available. (did i just blow your mind?)
- inactive, on 07/15/2008, -1/+7erm, yes it did
- Radan, on 07/15/2008, -2/+8Well, it was actually a bigger change for us Europeans who couldn't even buy one before. Going from a hacked G1 iPhone with EDGE with the speed of maybe 200kbit/s to a 3G enabled iPhone with speeds of 3-7Mbit/s was a big upgrade for me.
Also, the utterly retarded headphone jack that the old one had, was by itself enough reason to buy a new one. - Table16, on 07/14/2008, -14/+20I like this article because it's true. Kind of the same way around Black Friday when all those people wait in line at stores all night and people ask them why they are in line.
If I had money to spend, and AT&T service, and 3G support where I live, I would have definitely went and waited in line for one. But guess what, I don't have any of those things. So I get to see everyone else with one. Why does God hate me..... - unionaire, on 07/15/2008, -1/+7Waiting in line is a cultural thing. I think Americans love waiting in line the most.
- j2002, on 07/15/2008, -2/+8Surely this guy is taking the piss - its too early in the morning for me to tell :
"We are honoring beauty, imagination, childlike wonder, and all that is pure and good in the world."
No.. you have turned brand loyalty into a lifestyle. I don't usually care when people do stupid stuff like this, I've done it as well, but "beauty, imagination, childlike wonder" - you're queuing up to buy an over priced phone!
There's nothing wrong with liking gadgets, but Hitler is to Gandi what the iphone is to "all that is pure and good in the world".
You are living in my personal hell so I have to feel sorry for you but reading that, I just cant - Omis, on 07/15/2008, -0/+5Not really the same as Black Friday. That's a one day sale and supplies may be limited. The iPhone will still be out the next week and for the same price. So why wait weeks in advance for one? These are pretty much the same people that camped out a week before the launch of the original iPhone, then cried when apple cut the price a few months later.
- mrdjames, on 07/15/2008, -14/+19Ummmmm, it's an iphone. The Samsung Instinct pretty much kicks it's ass, unless you're married to the Mac Logo and think that just because it's an iphone you're cool. An Iphone doesn't make you cool, understanding technology does.
Why do you think Mac's still have less than 5% of the market? - mannymix03, on 07/15/2008, -4/+9because the instinct has done so much to kill the iphone, Last I saw on the news they were talking about the "2nd generation of Apple's groundbreaking touch phone" (Direct quote BTW) not about the instinct which the only people who bought were people stuck with sprint (I was at that point once) and realized that its possible the best phone they offer, not to mention the browser is abysmal and it has a $100 dollar a month plan to get the unlimited Data and GPS and other stuff in addition to your regular plan.
I own an iphone but don't consider myself a fanboy as there are plenty of problems with the iphone and i will be the first to point them out, but for now its still king and those who say otherwise are just delusional because they either hate apple or they own the other phone and are trying to defend their purchase. - locojones, on 07/15/2008, -0/+5Anybody who waits in line for days or hours to hand their money over to a corporation complicit in the warrantless spying on American citizens deserves to be mocked.
- edwartica, on 07/15/2008, -0/+5No kidding. I mean, life is too short to stand in line for a stupid phone. In the time some of these people spent, one could do a lot of good for there fellow man.
- kimcheefreak17, on 07/15/2008, -5/+10*I would have...
Sorry, for being a Grammar Nazi, it's a bad habit. - RebornInFlames, on 07/15/2008, -0/+4iphones are for losers. sorry.
- Maximillan007, on 07/15/2008, -3/+7Nokia E90, the best there is! Full keyboard, FAST 3G, Wlan, everything you need from a cellphone with a decent batterylife.
I tested the iPhone, it really did nothing new or faster or better then any of my previous phones.. Ok, the safari browser was great and the touchscreen was fun for about 2 days until it got "old".. And when i bought the E90, i paid only for the phone. Still using my existing service provider that i have been using for the last 4 years. (I pay 20euros to use 3G for 24/7 with no extra costs and have a signal cover of 98% of the country, can you guess where i live ;D) - BristolMyLove, on 12/21/2008, -2/+6After being in line for hour, I really wanted to leave. But I figured that I had just wasted an hour of my life so I couldn't turn back. Then the second hour rolled around and I was like, "I've been here for two hours, I can't leave." Little did I know I would be there for four more hours...
- internalEr0r, on 07/15/2008, -1/+4http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ip ... a wee bit old, but still has a valid point, but hey I'd get an iPhone too if it didn't make me a hypocrite, make me drown in debt, and make me think I'm better the other people because I have the newest out of date gadget.
- subliminalurge, on 07/15/2008, -1/+4He's punishing you for your lack of iPhone ownership.
- ajwinder, on 07/15/2008, -0/+3Well, shoot, I have no clue anymore. In case it isn't sarcastic:
So in this story we've:
- Insulted foreign tourists as ignorant. Yeah, that'll pay down that big Californian debt.
- Insulted people in red states as ignorant. Yes, New Hampshire, you bastion of ignorance. And yes, Ohio, you're all full of ignorant people too. Floridians. Virginians. Excusing the huge list of states this encompasses (I think theres what like 11 true-blue states, but I'm just pulling this off the top of my head, we might be in the high-teens), this is the kind of BS that liberals pull all the time. Which is partially to blame for the last 8 years.
- Pigeon-holed everyone that couldn't understand a 5-hour wait for good ole American consumerism as technophiles illiterates. Yeah, thats reasonable.
- Assumed the future would be filled with truly evolved human life-forms. The kind that, instead of solving the problems of idiotic distribution methods and borderline-obsessive tendencies, instead devolve into line-dwellers and trend-obsessed mouth-breathers. Yeah, I saw Idiocracy too, and just couldn't shake the feeling of "God, if only we could be so blessed".
All this for a rant on people ***** on what they think is important. In the future, not insulting the other 99% of the world is probably a better path if you're pissed over people belittling the fringe. - 1gunners4, on 07/15/2008, -0/+3The iPhone was arguably eclipsed before it even came out: the new iteration's main upgrades are a 3G network and real-time GPS, both of which are things that the Helio Ocean has had since before the iPhone was released, with the only advantage the iPhone has over the Ocean being that it has a larger screen.
- koko775, on 07/15/2008, -2/+5Because they are concerned more with changing computing than maximizing their share of the market. That 5% you quote is enough to sustain them. I use OS X, Windows XP+Vista, and Linux (Ubuntu) alike. Many of the good points of those came about on their own, but there are also things that Apple pushed into the mainstream. They were the first to push for USB in earnest (or have you forgotten that the first iMac lacked serial ports and pushed adoption of USB mice and keyboards?). They experimented with new GUI features (I like Spaces' equivalent in Compiz). They opened up a large untapped market for well-designed mp3 players. They woke sleeping giants -- phone companies -- and forced them to start innovating again, whether or not those companies cooperated with Apple.
Apple's done good in my book. You needn't antagonize their products; just use a better one. - herbertstrasse, on 07/15/2008, -0/+3Apple users sure are smug.
- FreshPineSent, on 07/15/2008, -0/+3Your a towell.
- birdman14, on 07/15/2008, -0/+3no. just no.
- ProfessorFoo, on 07/15/2008, -0/+3We really do.
- sixlaneve, on 07/15/2008, -2/+5this is sad...
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