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Meanwhile, In Front Of Apple Stores In New York And Around The World...
While none of these people, many of whom are unemployed and paid by others to stay in line for days, will spend the $3,600 someone in China just paid for a "gold" iPhone, they will gladly pay hundreds of dollars out of pocket, or in many cases simply lease with zero money down, the latest and greatest aspirational gadget to show they are cooler than they actually are.
Case in point: in front of the main Apple store on 58th and Fifth some 4700 people are unaware you could have ordered the iPhone online and have it delivered today...
Crowd at 5th Ave Apple Store w less than 45 min to go. One Apple estimate has 4700 ppl lined up at area stores. pic.twitter.com/4cdv9o9g1l
— Ed Baig (@edbaig) September 19, 2014
Iphone line from my office. Lots of cheering pic.twitter.com/5Pg2eFzaTI
— Peter Heise (@HeisePete) September 19, 2014
Apple Store UWS line goes 3 blocks and wraps around another. One Apple employee said there were around "1000" people. pic.twitter.com/UK0kByzllX
— Eli Blumenthal (@eliblumenthal) September 19, 2014
My rough estimate: about 125 people now waiting in line at Upper West Side Apple Store for iPhone & growing. pic.twitter.com/qhA2ij40hE
— Ed Baig (@edbaig) September 18, 2014
The #iPhone6 and #iPhone6Plus are here: http://t.co/YbDZwHngeL pic.twitter.com/c1KyeY5iKr
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) September 19, 2014
In meatpacking - the line is 4 blocks long:
The line for the iPhone 6 in NYC's Meatpacking District. 4 blocks long. pic.twitter.com/Zug9E5jykb
— Meredith Frost (@MeredithFrost) September 19, 2014
For some, it is a matter of outsmarting your significant other. From USA Today:
Chris Johnson, 53, who waited in line at the Apple Store on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the goal was to get a new phone and to get one faster than his girlfriend. "My girlfriend, she pre-ordered, so I'm just trying to beat her." said Johnson. "She thinks I'm crazy to be out here, but I think she's crazy to pre-order because you may not get yours for 7-10 days. I want to pretty much guarantee."
Others are so eager to look cool, they will beat the living crap out of the next "not so cool" guy in line next to them. As USA Today reports, one group of people was waiting to buy "10 gold iPhones" to resell to a person from Dubai. When a fight broke out among another group, said to be from China, the police were called.
Fights breaking out at UWS Apple Store. Cops have been called. Still 12 hours to go. Cc @usatodaytech pic.twitter.com/2BOaE4Hmho
— Eli Blumenthal (@eliblumenthal) September 18, 2014
It is not just New York. As USA Today reports:
Thousands of fans lined up at Apple stores worldwide as the tech giant kicked off sales of its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones.
Stores in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Europe opened early Friday, as consumers in the United States eagerly awaited the arrival of Apple's latest iPhones.
Countless customers braved lined for hours -- and days -- in hopes of securing the new iPhones, which feature a significant boost in screen size. Some customers at Apple's New York store began waiting in line for the next iPhone before Apple's announcement last week.
Found the end of the iPhone 6 line, 3 blocks away. Rumor has it that the new iPhone is, in fact, a phone. pic.twitter.com/p8Uc6K01VV
— Hockey Brunch in CHI (@HockeyBrunch) September 19, 2014
People crowd in front of the Apple Store in Munich, Germany to purchase the new iPhone
People line up outside an Apple shop in London for the next iPhone
iPhone 6 fans line the @ATT store on Dorset in S. Burlington Friday morning. #btv #iPhone6 @bfp_news pic.twitter.com/YbrCxPzcpK
— Philip Tortora (@PhilipTortora) September 19, 2014
Over 1000 people in line to get the new iPhone 6 at Toronto's Eaton Centre. #apple @BNN #tech pic.twitter.com/gQw7sWW0Mw
— Partsinevelos (@KristinaParts) September 19, 2014
The line in Burlington, Ontario
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yes iPhone! oh shit, I've got not cash just gold...
Crazy assholes.
I just traded in my iPhone 5 for the Lumia 930. I only used the iPhone from the original iPhone back in 2007. iPhone 6 was top of the line -- 2 years ago, and they want 250% more than the comparable Windows Phone?
I can buy a lot of hard liquor and stare at my mounting student loan debt with the 130€ I saved.
Not so much crazy as lazy, empty, and desperate. It's easier for them to buy an identity than to have one.
Practice herd.
iHomeless
Are they fucking payed? Or extremely useful idiots.
good slaves...
you see..., slave training works.
"""they are cooler than they actually are."""
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa...
How True... iPhone Shit, What A Joke... I'd Pay 39.98 Max ...
This is photo proof of the sad current state of humanity....SheePPLE voluntarily to be Sheered over a stinkin phone.
Modern Western Sheeple will do anything to increase their Fuckability Index (FI)
It's fucking hilarious!
....or pitiful, I can't freaking decide.
iDork
Where the fuck do these people get all this time to stand in line for a phone they are going to invest gobs and gobs of time into?
Wait in line..?? Why..??
My assistant does that..
I love my new Apple 6...
Nuff said...
These people are pathetic.
Hilariously pitiful
For God's sake, it's a phone!
Nice to know so many people are supporting the happy Foxcon workers
http://www.poderpda.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/motorola-texasjpg.jpg
7:45 PM: "Finally got the iPhone, let me head over the the "luxury rental" center and pick up the Beemer! I'm going out tonight!!!!!"
Speaking of the Fuckability Index... I lived in NYC for nine years before moving to California (didn't wish to avoid the income tax anal I get every year), and watching pictures like those in this blog post reminds me of, as a whole, just how fugly people are in NYC relative to CA.
What is it about the gene pool on the East Coast?
I still have my Nokia flip with an antenna. I should be the "uncoolist" of all. However when I'm in Best Buy it draws small crowds to see the relic.
I wish I still had my black Motorola RAZR flip phone.... loved that phone!!
Soon to be Soup Lines.
iPhone Fail. Idiocy at its finest.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=778_1411103987
dup
So Apple paid 5000 Shills to line up to make themself look relevant. Big deal
The bleating must be deafening.
iQueue
Herd mentality. Morons would stand in line for the gas chamber next. Or their RFID chip.
Everyone needs a good obsession?
Mark my words, this shit right here will be a "feature" of furutre smart phones.
"With your iPhone 9 -- you get a coupon for a FREE microchip in your hand, and it can be used to do x, y, & z."
sheeples will be around the block.
Makes me want to throw a handful of them phones into a busy intersection....
We will have a sheeple war, they will literally kill each other for a phone
To all of you waiting on line at the 5th Avenue Apple store, if you can read this on your old crappy iPhone 5s, please head on over to the Sony store around the corner on 56th and Madison. I hear they are introducing the Betamax 2.0 today and there are no lines. It's not confirmed but I have a hunch you'd be interested in checking it out anyway.
Hurry.
No, HURRY!!!!!!!
I saw someone with an iPhone 5 and thought, wow, that really is faster than my phone. I looked up the price and nearly crapped my pants. My phone is slower but it does everything I need and more and it cost me practically nothing compared to the iPhone. And I don't have to suffer iTunes. I cannot believe an ordinary person would buy a phone at these insane prices.
You had me at "Crazy assholes"
Nothing a strategic placed nuke can't fix
many of whom are unemployed and paid by others to stay in line for days
You can't hold a Capitalist down.....no worries, they can afford it.
Don't look at me....I'm sticking with my Samsung.
i fail to see how i should give a fuck how other people spend their money. obamaphones on the other hand....
fucking idiots
of course. new i Phone 6 is out and the idiots too
iDiots
I like that!
NSA released a new gizmo that will help them monitor me... I GOTS TO GET IT!!!
Good strategy.....especially if you spend a lot of time in gun free zones.
At least they'll know where to send the bodybag......24 hours after the fact.
Let the NSA monitor those types of people. The NSA will be really sorry they did. Can you imagine listening all day to that kind of crap?
Future phones could have a little chemical chip inside, that can be activated over the net to release lethal poison.. (I should get a patent on this idea)
This is just what morons do, when your entire life revolves around tech gadgets. AAPL loves every minute of it.
this kind of crap is why i don't feel bad for moist usa people
Do you care about the dry ones?
s/
yes
I care about the tight, pretty ones.
I think you mean anti-perspirantly challenged.
Sweataphobe.
Ah its not just the US dude. And get rid of the ugly pic.
I'd love to see 4,500 people lined up for the next 9/11 documentary, but facts and reason are not our new religion, having the next cool gadget is how people feel better about their otherwise meaningless lives.
There is a new 9/11 Doku!?
Should be added to the definition of "Sheeple"
Americans are training for food handouts in the future. At least you will have some waiting stamina and crowd-smarts when it comes to standing in bread lines :)
And you can place your order while in line too! (and peruse your diet requirements.)
The Soup Nazi comes to mind "NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!!" :)
Age the people in those photos up by about 40 years and stick 'em in kilts, and it could be the Scotish voters who just chose continued enslavement.
Apple. Proving every day that the young are just as brainwashed as the old.
The thing that pisses me off most about Apple is the massive amount of tax dollars that is funneled into its coffers to buy its products. Then to hear people praise Apple as a great American company that did it on its own.
An article appeared on MarketWatch in the middle 0f 2012.that was titled "Ten Things Apple Won't Tell You" It was penned by Quentin Fottrell who writes for SmartMoney.com. I thought it had a lot of merit. You can chase the article down or see the bulk of it below and that will give you the general idea of its message.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2012/09/10-things-apple-wont-tell-you.html
Stop pimping your fucking blog, would ya?
Thank you, brother!
Downvotes!?!? Hit a nerve me thinks with the iPhone on full vibrate down the front of the pants crowd.
loooool
Tickle me Elmo.
Dickle me apple.
man O man....
I've never really understood all that crap. For me those are idiots in need of a good lap on the back of their heads and a kick on the back of their knees.
I recently had a argument with a friend of mine who bought his kids a iPhone 5. they're 8 years old for heaven sake and those things still cost over 500 euro's a piece!
I mean, it's not even a price discussion, it's the fact that you give those phones to kids and risk them being robbed or beaten up because of it!
And than comes the "they need it to belong in the group"...
I'm sorry but I don't give that to my kids. Big nono. And don't even try to use savings or grandpa or grandma to get one. I'll just confiscate it and it becomes mine.
Need it to belong in the group, heh heh. Lemmings, all of them.
My kids are starting to enter the teen years, and not one of them has ever owned a cell phone. Hell, I don't own a cell phone. We all get along with our peers just fine.
The cops in Chicago have even given a name to the act of robbing someone for their iShit. They call it applejacking. I prefer my applejacks in a bowl with some milk - but that's just me.
Applejacks for Applejerks. Perfect!
(not that I condone robbery)
I don't have a cell phone and love it.
Don't need one if you don't have a car either.
I have a few cars.
Don't need one if you don't have a car either. Or any friends. Mom is right up stairs, so no need for much.
Well you'd better damn well have health insurance.....or you're gonna be paying a fine bitch!
I do not have a cell phone... true freedom.
The iPhone has turned into the very symbol of sheepish moronitude.
Be smart, be cool and show it: don't have one.
Wow people still line up for this shit? I don't get it I would never do that... I have to ask does apple pay these people to line up? Maybe just some of the people so they can lure some more idiots into doing it because it seems cool. I can see this happening in the early days of the iPhone, because die hard apple fans were very into it, but most people that I know who were die hard apple fan boys have become disillusioned by generation after generation of poorly performing products. From the lines you might suspect they are running some kind of soup kitchen out of the apple store, around where I live that is the only reason you would see lines like that.
What the hell are wrong with these people? It's a phone that doesn't do anything more than the previous version. These iSheeple love being ass raped so much they'll wait in line for it.
It's just an alternate life style......I say let them marry each other.
Actually you guys, this whole thang kind of creeps me out. I wrote a short essay about how we will accept the mark of the beast not by force or coercion, but by seduction...and here we have people camping out to get these devil's mints.
Also, I did a little rummaging around on the web and came up with the sense that over 80% of internet activity is entertainment and shopping. i.e. consumption. The world is going to die of consumption... FB wastes away over 300 human lifes a day. AAPL is a poster child for everything that is wrong with the information age. Shun them and treat them like the greedy self-seving psychopaths they are.
Socio-economic manipulation, indoctrination, and tyranny. That will be the legacy of the internet. It may very well be the end of humanity.
Sorry to be so negative, but the truth needs to be told about the "real" value of the internet. IMHO: The internet is a net liability.
I do own a cell phone...bought a Nexus 4 when google dropped the price before the nexus 5 came out...I do not have any cell contract I only use it VoIP over wifi and that works most places...not when I am hiking but if I am at my consulting gig or almost anyhwere else...just like a cell phone (almost). It's convenient and cheap.
Have thought about that for a while...what app do you use for VoIP?
Was using GrooveIP Light (free) with google voice but the google voice thing was changed and now they use something called RingTo (another free service)...not sure how well that works...I signed up with VoIP provider Vestalink and they license a GREAT VoIP client...so I am paying maybe $50/year for their service using an ATA at home but it also rings the cell when I am on wifi...has been working great. I still use an un-upgraded version of GrooveIP Light for a google voice number and as long as I don't upgrade I am OK...so I have not tried ringTo.
The only one that looks like thousands of people is London. Sorry but that crowd outside the NY store might be 650, but 5000 people is a far larger crowd than that.
Apple uses the same count as Obama rallies. I remember when they said 35k people showed up at a school rally in a gym that could only fit 5000 people.
Where are the police in sniper towers? I thought any crowd that numbers in the thousands needs full SWAT teams. A friggin parade is grounds to have the bomb squad, snipers, SWAT, hundreds of plain clothed officers. Hell if ISIS really wants to cripple the USA, bomb an Apple store on iPhone day. It wouldn't even matter if they killed anyone. The images of smoldering gold iPhones would send more people to tears than seeing an elementary school burning.
The Apple propaganda machine is in full overdrive. How many millions of iPhone 5s that were booked as sold are there still sitting in warehouses? I fully expect a crazy number like 15 million iPhone6 sold in five days. It won't be true, but Apple is the Obamanation of the gadget world. They get a pass on everything.
I'll continue to toss my phone in standing water in front of the smug iHoles. The screen may match after three years, but the iPhone still can't even make it through a rainstorm.
Its funny that the vast majority of that crowd looks middle-aged at best... iphones are the new sports cars
No, this crowd still believes that one's personal wealth is determined by one's wheels. Betcha they're all in hock for the next six years for their Beemers.
Oh shit. This reminds me that I need to get in line somewhere for the Blackberry Passport.
Consumer zombies. Or should I say lemmings? Because they will fall off the cliff for sure.
Bush 43: "You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."
God help us.
A society of broken minds is broken
I assume that these are either
a) idiots
b) people paid to sit there by other idiots
c) people trying to flip one today on ebay to idiots
by monday no one will care that they had it first, and you will be able to just walk into the store and buy one unimpeded.
Why doesn't Apple just call it the Me Phone? Because it's apparent that the crowd that follows this, subscribes to the popular philosophy, that it's all about me. They are making powerful statement in their choice of consumer gadgets. It´s not just any chance gadget, after all, it's an Apple gadget!
TOTUS should offer everyone free apple phones since his party is expecting losses at the polls.
Each free phone could come with a voter card and pre-filled absentee ballot.
This really shows live the fall of the Roman empire
It was right after amnesty.....if I remember right.
It's like we're following the playbook.
The poorest quality computing hardware I've ever bought are my "top-of-the-line" Macbook Pro, and my "top-of-the-line" Imac 27 desktop, bought for my business.
I call them $400 worth of hardware in a $2000 box. Stuff goes wrong that should never, ever go wrong.
using an iMAC at the consulting gig...i5...27" display...display is beautiful but the rest is junk...my HP laptop..i5 and slower drive but running Linux is MUCH faster and easier to use...OSX really sucks if you have to use it....wish I could install Linux on it ans see how it runs but it's a MIC machine...and it's locked down.
Wow, you have stuff
Where are the deadheads now who made it their practice to 'moo' when filing in/out of the jerry shows?
Oh wait, I think I see "pajama-boy" in the pics.
So what else is new? Remember, "MONEY FOR NOTHING AND THE CHICS ARE FREE".
www.traderzoo.mobi
The human race is doomed.
Viva Ebola!
Just build your own and separate from the crowd. You might actually learn something useful in the process at the same time while spending money you don't have on something you really don't need these days especially in a city with the amount of wifi hot spots and voip calling and texting options to choose from.
http://blog.arduino.cc/2013/08/12/diy-cellphone/
The next BIG Apple gadget will be an iDick with anal eLubrifiant.
"My girlfriend, she pre-ordered, so I'm just trying to beat her." said Johnson. "She thinks I'm crazy to be out here, but I think she's crazy to pre-order because you may not get yours for 7-10 days. I want to pretty much guarantee."
Your both sheeple.
If Hitler just had the iPhone he would have had a much easier time monitoring and controlling people.
Read that some 'American' flew himself and his wife to Australia to be able to get the first phones. These people are really annoyingly stupid. In the words of Frankie Boyle "...they are all morons who I'd leave inside a burning house to save a pig."
Unbelieveable. No wonder people are so easy to control.
This is what we've become. What a bunch of zombified fuckwits.
S H E E P
Life must be good when your main focus is getting the latest i-gadget.
I see waves of Obama voters. Someone pull out a flame thrower and clear the street.
Useless idiots that in time will be culled. Don't know one productive person that would stand in a line for a phone. This chickie is way to busy getting the last of the crops processed and have no time for an igadget.
+1 for the astute obervation
+1 for the astute obervation
iPhones. The most hacked and surveilled of all the zombie gadgets. Enjoy your soft tissue cancer from sticking that goddamned thing to your ear all goddamn day.
To the dumbasses standing in line like Jim Jones followers: Ammo is where it's at. Silver is dirt cheap. Re-evaluate and prioritize, fuckos.
What if you buy silver and ammo on your 4-year-old iPhone 4? I'm reforming, I promise.
so sad to see these sheeps doing the line for just a freaken phone
sometimes i tell myself they deserve what is coming
Think of it this way. If they are being paid to wait on line by the same people who pay for their EBT cards for no money down phones that they are later going to pay by the month for using the same EBT cards well it is is win win all around for the winners of a rigged system including Apple since they are the darlings of hedge funds who hold the pension funds monies which in turn those pension fund holders will keep voting the same shit enabling EBT to be abused as long as their pensions remain intact. It is one giant circle jerk between entitlements aka pensions (at least they worked for them), Apple aka wall street and government, EBT card holders and government itself.
Looks like a 50-1 ratio guys to gals.
No thanks. If I am going to stand in any line, I need eye candy.
"My girlfriend, she pre-ordered, so I'm just trying to beat her." said Johnson. "She thinks I'm crazy to be out here, but I think she's crazy to pre-order because you may not get yours for 7-10 days."
They're not crazy. They're just 21 century douche-bags.
A lot can happen in 7-10 days. Ha ha.
This is nice too see when you own a shit ton of apple stock.
The end of an empire.
Usury - money-lending for consumption - front loads and increases consumer demand in the short term but increasingly reduces it in the long term. One consequence of that is the ever more feverish marketing and advertising campaigns to grab a slice of that shrinking demand - like beating a dying horse.
"She thinks I'm crazy to be out here, but I think she's crazy to pre-order because you may not get yours for 7-10 days. I want to pretty much guarantee."
They are both crazy.
"Oh gawd, Madge, I don't know what I'd do if all my friends had theirs and I had to wait. I think I would slit my wrists!"
Shallow. New phone does what, exactly?
Maybe the draw is that it can now track you within inches of your gps position, plus monitor and report out your blood sugar levels and degree of inactivity.
"Countless customers braved lined for hours -- and days -- in hopes of securing the new iPhones"
No need to. They will be on sale for the next year or so.
iKrap
What? They are not in line to buy Ali Baba stock?
For compensation that I still use my 2yr old samsung galaxy I will buy a 1oz goldbarzzz
sorry oh masters that I do not behave as Im supposed to.
Time is too valuable to be wasting waiting in line for a phone that will be easy to get in a few months.
These people want instant gratification.
I would be embarrassed to tell someone I was foolish enough to wait in line for this.
faith no more
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN9ky04SOMk
"Mic Check!"
"Mic Check!"
"You're all idiots!"
"We're all idiots!"
"You're all sheep!"
"Baaaahhhhhh!"
I find this to be sad. If Americans cared a 1/4 as much about their country and the direction we were going.....not gonna happen.
"Check it out dude, the screen is bigger than last year's Galaxy!"
These geniuses are waiting in line for a crapple product that does what my Droid has been capable of for the last 3 years?
Really?
I knew fanbois were losers but this is beyond the pale.
"...to show they are cooler than they actually are. "
And there you have it, the real cause of so much mass stupidity: That playground crap of cliquish pressure so successfully manipulated as an extraordinarily powerful social control mechanism. Marx's "opiate of the masses" never did and never will cow so many potentially active and aware members of society.
Slightly out of date as to the particular actors, but well worth watching: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/ , and certainly not just about "the kids".
And as the 1/2 mile wide asteroid slams into the ground a mile away from them
they will be videoing it on their Iphone 9 and sending to their friends saying
"watch this shit"
And the android lovers will be safe in their stocked bunkers
I'm barely into my 40's, but I must be getting old because I don't understand this AT ALL. I haven't had a cell phone for a year and I don't miss it, but I see people my age running into other people on the sidewalk because they are looking at their phone while they walk. Everyone looks like they are talking to themselves while they drive. It seems like pure madness to me, but you're in the minority if you like to do one thing at a time.
Not understanding this describes the vertical silo of your specialized & socially reinforced "education". Spend a few hours googling psychology, propaganda and media, then think about it for a week and you'll get it.
KILL YOUR TV
And keep coming back.
Anyone remember 3 years ago when your typical Apple cum guzzler couldn't shut up about how the Android rigs were too fucking huge?
Now those idiots are in line for one. Faggots.
Is it really that cold? And are Americans really getting that big?
Excuse me, is this the line for the Obamaphone?
Shelter in Place?
Haha - or should I say : BaaBaaa
do not fear sheeple
i am willaim wallace
today the rest of you
will be spared.
go back to england and tell them
scotland is freeeeeeeeeeee
dumb
up's sorry wrong movie