iPhone Frenzy Reaches Hobo Fight Stage

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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By Jen Chung in News on July 11, 2008 3:29 PM

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Spirit of 76

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."

matty

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.

smitty

Also, a hobo is a person who rides the rails...not the right word. I guess you mean "bum"?

smitty

I passed by the 5th Ave store at around 7 something and there were probably 1000 people in line.

NannyState

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?

Spirit of 76

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?