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Photograph of the line for a 3G iPhone starting from reader Anders
This Friday, Apple is releasing the next generation of its extremely popular iPhone and last week, the line for the new 3G iPhone started to form outside the Fifth Avenue store.
Some of those waiting are part of The WhoFarm, which Fortune calls a "publicity-seeking environmental collective" (with baby, momentarily, in tow; here's video). TheWhoFarm folks apparently want to both set a Guinness World Record for waiting and to play up themes like sustainability, affordable housing and more--all while using solar power and drinking NYC tap water. They are also locavores and welcome people bearing NYC apples.
Last year, the iPhone was introduced to a huge frenzy.
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I can haz life?
Like Star Trek, I admire the products, but hate it's cultish fans.
Bunch of sheeps.
why is the NYPD allowing this? in this era of obsession with "quality of life" infractions, they sure wouldn't let any other garden-variety squatters camp on a city sidewalk for a week, especially in that part of town.
fucksake
Complete idiots.
landstrider, learn how to write, that's not funny or normal English.
These people do realize that they are allowed in the store, right? And that the store will not be closing between now and the moment the phone goes on sale? And that people who are actually inside the store at that moment will be at an advantage over those standing outside it? And that store employees have neither an obligation nor an incentive to honor an ad hoc line? And that there will be enough phones for everyone, even on the first day?
Having a line is a win-win-win. The WhoFarm gets to publicize their cause, Apple gets free publicity for their product, and commenters who pretend to be cooler than people that stand on line (even though, really, the standing on line doesn't affect them at all) get to complain on Gothamist!
morons
Like everyone is saying: idiots.
cuntry, learn how to figure out that someone is referencing a popular website
iDiots?
iDouche
Cuntry couldn't have been serious, right? But looking at his past posts, perhaps he was.
And those people will be the first to complain about what is wrong or doesn't work right with their precious new phone
Baaaah: sheep
Out of work traders need something to do to pass the time...
I don't see why these people think that the phone will sell out. They never ran out of stock when the original phone came out last year.
If you really want one, you won't have an issue snagging one after work.
hey cuntry - ever hear of lolcats? for someone using web2.0, you're sure good at flaming.
for the rest of you, check out http://www.waitingforapples.com/ for what they're trying to accomplish - maybe you'll think twice before dismissing them.
Those Waiting for Apples people should picket that 3 year old for tearing the bough off that tree. She is a threat to NYC sustainability.
@rarelement: What they're "trying to accomplish" is moronic, and they deserve heaps and heaps and metric tons of heaps of ridicule and derision. Sitting on your ass and buying expensive toys is not an accomplishment.
In other news: cuntry, stop being a gaytard.
wait it out bitch! I remember the line waiters last year and how they were all crowing when they got their Iphones first but they didn't realize they could have just gone to an AT&T kiosk the next day and get it hassle free instead of waiting in a huge line at an apple store. Then apple dropped the price by 200 smackers the next 2 months and they looked stupid as fuck.
OMG! I'm going to totally Twitter my whole waiting in line for the 3G iPod service because that's the totally Web 3.0 thing to do!
maybe they are lining up so they can sell them immediately to china, where they can be hacked and then the "coolest" person in shanghai (probably some rich dummy or some ex pat) can show how great they are.
I think waiting in line is an end in itself, giving purpose and meaning to an otherwise purposeless, meaningless existence. After all, if you're not being processed, and you're not on a queue to be processed, you may have fallen out of the machine altogether. What then? What then?
"OMG! I'm going to totally Twitter my whole waiting in line for the 3G iPod service because that's the totally Web 3.0 thing to do!"
I thought Jen Carlson posted that for a second.
I don't think these people are waiting in line because they think the phone will sell out. They obviously love Apple and the fanfare of a new product going on sale. In the past, Apple has given away freebies (giftcards, t-shirts, raffled off iPods) so they're probably also waiting for that stuff, too. My boyfriend went to the Leopard release and got a free t-shirt. Which he promptly sold on eBay for $40.
Last WEEK?!!!