July 11, 2008
iPhone Frenzy Reaches Hobo Fight Stage
Photograph by djmac on Flickr
As reader djmac captured an iPhone 3G-related fight outside a Lexington Avenue AT&T store, the customers who managed to snag the new device were bereft when problems prevented their phones from activating both in the physical stores and on the iTunes store. (Gizmodo has tips for fixing some problems.) Many AT&T stores are reporting they don't have anymore iPhone 3Gs; some remain at the Apple stores.
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Remember apple loves you money and nothing else. To go crazy over a technology piece is idiotic and stupid.
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I love it. Fight fight fight!
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I also love fights, but what I see here is four white dudes beating up a black guy.
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One is better off to buy an Apple stock. No need to wait in line.
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I'd love some video on this one.
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Oh noes! It's the Geek squad. Better cheese it boys.
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wow the homeless guy had balls to beat another person infront of these many people.
i hope he got a good beating and where were the cops?
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LMAO! nice
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yuck, i would never touch some disgusting bum, especially just to break up some fight between him & some apple fan boy.
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Looks like one of those crappy 2 megapixel iphone shots.
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Are there actually any 'bums' in this photo? I can't tell, they all look like children to me.
And the headline of this post is not really backed up by any information regarding the fight. So how can anyone assume that there are bums being beat up here.
Need more info, stupids.
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the photo would be a lot better if somebody set them all on fire.
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What's more pathetic, people waiting in line for iPhones or people who have nothing better to do with their lives than to post how stupid it is to wait in line for iPhones?
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So is there an actual story or is a picture all we're gonna get?
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Tension and drama over the release of some new gadget. Did this sort of thing happen decades ago when Remington released a new model typewriter?
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I passed by the 5th Ave store at around 7 something and there were probably 1000 people in line.
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Also, a hobo is a person who rides the rails...not the right word. I guess you mean "bum"?
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Apple would have you believe that you're purchasing a hip lifestyle when you buy mac but really you're still a dork - and a dork with less money.
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Three cheers for matty!
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Really? Then no less an authority than PC World, ever the advocate for Macs over PCs, must have been lying when they wrote only three days ago that assumptions about the high cost of Macs are usually wrong. In fact, I must have been imagining the conclusion that said, "Don't buy into the old argument that Mac laptops are categorically more expensive than Windows machines. Sometimes that's true--but they're often on par with, or cost less than, their closest Windows laptop equivalents."
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losers.