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Yes, even this slightly blustery and drizzly weather, there are Apple loyalists patiently waiting for tomorrow's opening of the Upper West Side Apple Store. Sure, it's the fourth one in the city and, no, there isn't a new product. Just before 10 p.m., there were about six people waiting, with about 10 people asking them why they were waiting and other passers-by snickering.
The store opens tomorrow at 10 a.m. (regular store hours will be 9 a.m.—9 p.m.).
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Bunch of maroons.
I hope they die.
do you really? If u do, I hope someone you care about is there.
why would i care about someone there?
Hahaha! Well played.
I don't know how these places make money. My Macs last on average about 5 years before I want to upgrade, and I use the same IPOd that I bought 5 years ago, it's a workhorse.
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I think you are the exception to the rule. Majority of the people who buy into apple products (partially guilty) tend to want the latest gadget they cart out. Thus the hysteria or muted hysteria depending on your perspective.
Now that they've gone "cheaper", they don't last as much as they use to. But I can testify they can be workhorses. Been using them for almost 10 years now. Doesn't justify this stupidity, though.
I got my Dad an iBook G3 (with OS X 10.3) 5½ years ago, right after the iBook G4 debuted. Apple stopped releasing updates for 10.3 quite some time ago. If I wanted to upgrade the OS, I could only go as far as 10.4. Contrast this with the HP laptop I got 5 years ago with Windows XP Home. Microsoft will support XP for quite some time into the future.
As of April, Microsoft discontinued support of XP except for security updates. That's no different from OS X 10.4, which continues to receive security updates. The only reason XP continues to be available on some new computers at all is because there was a massive outcry every time Microsoft announced a "hard deadline" for OEMs to discontinue new installs. People hated Vista, plain and simple, and put pressure on the OEMs, who complained to Microsoft. Apple was able to stop development on 10.3 and 10.4 because there's no such hatred of 10.5 or 10.6. People are willingly upgrading. In the first month alone, an estimated 20% of Mac users had already upgraded to 10.6.
Why are you saying your old HP will run old XP just fine but castigating an iBook for not running current versions of OS X? Shouldn't you be telling us whether the HP can run Vista or Windows 7 properly?
And you do know that your iBook has a PowerPC processor, don't you? It's a completely different architecture from the Intel processors used since 2006. You can't compare support after a complete changeover like that. You can't blame Apple for not devoting resources to continue developing the OS for a processor family that has been obsolete for three years. Of course it's easier for Windows to keep running on the same family of processors that it's been running on since 1985. You might as well also complain about Adobe, since some of their upcoming software won't run on PowerPC Macs, either. Bite the bullet and buy your father a Macbook, assuming the iBook doesn't still do everything he needs. Factory refurbished Macbooks with full one-year warranty can be had for $700. You've done nothing but prove Kevin Walsh's point that Macs are fine for five years before he wants to upgrade.
Security updates were all the updates I had in mind. If I want my Dad's iBook to get the latest security updates, I have to shell out for a copy of 10.4, according to you. I haven't had to do the analogous for my HP, nor will I have to for quite some time.
You talk like XP is the only version of Windows there ever was. What if you had bought a laptop that came with Windows ME? Guess what? You'd have to buy XP, Vista or Windows 7, because Microsoft stopped issuing security updates for it back in 2006, 5 1/2 years after it was released. They killed hotfixes and other development for ME even earlier, only 3 years after it was released. Good luck getting support for 95, 98 or 2000. So stop trying to make it sound like only Mac users get orphaned operating systems. XP had an artificially extended lifespan because Vista bombed big time. After three years on the market, Vista still has only about 1/3 of the market share of XP, so Microsoft had no choice but to continue supporting XP or risk the wrath of spurned consumers.
Why bother bringing up Windows Me? I'm comparing a Mac laptop and a PC laptop that were both purchased new in 2004.
And so what if XP has had its useful life "artificially" extended? Didn't Steve Jobs once brag at a MacWorld expo that Apple puts out a new iteration of OS X more often than Microsoft puts out a new iteration of Windows? The flipside of that is that Apple users are forced to shell out for an upgrade sooner than Windows users are.
And again, you're apparently intentionally ignoring that Apple underwent a paradigm shift when they switched from PowerPC to Intel processors in 2006. Without that artificial difference which would force Apple to develop and maintain two completely different codebases and the artificial life extension XP has, you wouldn't see much of a difference. Note that 10.4 continues to receive security updates and runs on every Mac back to 1999, so users of Macs from the 98/ME/2000 era aren't as out of luck as you claim.
Apple releases new OSs with new features. It's not like SP1, SP2 and SP3, which brought nothing new to XP. Leopard is not a service pack and neither is Snow Leopard. Why are you so concerned about security updates for the Mac anyway? There are no viruses in the wild, only a trojan or two, and your father won't have to worry about that unless he decides to download warez.
But what do I care? You've obviously made up your mind. Go ahead and buy him a PC laptop and a subscription to Norton.
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Just keep upgrading the security.
I still have a G4 and a crappy Ipod shuffle
Really? I mean really? There are only three other stores in the city.
I've got nothing to do with my Friday night either, but I rather spend it watching tv and clicking endlessly through the internet.
Someone head over there with a wheeled crate of umbrellas and down blankets!
Steve is coming to open the store! Hurry down and wait in the rain so you can lick his iballs.
What a bunch of douchetards, must have been crowded on the train from Brooklyn tonight.
heard there was an early black friday sale
People Dying To Be Part of Something Camp Out on Sidewalk for Opening of Store
Isn't the one on 5th Ave open 24hrs a day? This is like waiting for a new Gap store to open up when there are others with the same thing already open lol
Jobs must love looking at these lemmings
I can't wait for the opening of this apple store. I'm guessing that it will be one of the world's most high tech IT store. Business WiFi
I think steve jobs is gay. I remember him at the 5th ave store opening and all he could do was stare at me for ten minutes. It made me feel uncomfortable so i had to leave
can anyone explain to me why those apple stores are always packed inside?
because people surf the internet.
It's really annoying. Recently I actually wanted to see a computer screen up close to see whether I like it. But it was impossible. People were not moving away from their emails, youtube, shopping sites, online fotoalbums etc...
I've seen assholes check their BANKING in Apple SoHo.
Banking.
What the fuck?
Unless they are giving away a free 27" iMac to the first few people in the door in the morning, these people are total fools.
you should know by now that staten island doesn't count.
Those people are always on the street, they were there before the store was built, huddled in blankets. Apple just built the store around them. Plus, they now get to be on TV when the local news breathlessly reports about the 'buzz' on the new Apple Store.
They usually handout free t-shirts for the first couple people in there, but geeze.
I hope this Apple Store has public restrooms, the SOHO and 5th Avenue ones do...but the Meat Packing District one doesn't.
Even as a Mac/iPhone owner, this is one store too many. Each of these stores is reducing from the neighborhood ... at least build something more interesting.
I hear what you're saying, but the store that was there before—an ugly 2-story Victoria's Secret—was no gem.
Well, it could have been worse...
It could have become one of those Arby's
You mean the fact Arby's is gonna open in a building that's been sitting empty for over 2 years? That's suppose to be bad?
Actually, yeah.
I AM SO SUPERIOR TO PEOPLE WHO STAND IN LINE OVERNIGHT THAT I MUST ANGRILY POINT OUT MY SUPERIORITY ON GOTHAMIST!!1!!
hahahaah
besides, this store is surrounded by a gap, gracious homes, banana republic, and barnes and noble! i'm not going to miss the lame victoria secret that was there (lame b/c they never had good sales at that location).
it's not apple's fault the entire corner is a homogenized disney of retailers.
This is the best response so far.
I'm sure the first place these people will go once the doors open at 10am, is the Apple restrooms.
Are they giving things away to the first customers?
Group of fanatics waiting in line for a day walks into the store at 10am. At 10:10am a group of tourists walks into the store after a good nights sleep and breakfast. How does waiting in line make any sense?
those people in line are such losers!.
I'm also a loser for sitting here on a saturday morning commenting on Gothamist, but not as big a loser as they!
I concur. They are on another level of loserdom we cannot dream of equaling, unless we stay on line for over an hour at Shake Shack.
EXACTLY, JULES1000 WHO IS A LOSER BUT NOT AS BIG A LOSER AS THE APPLE STANDERS-IN-LINE!
WHY DON'T WE, AS ANGRY GUY AND NOT-QUITE LOSER GUY, JOIN FORCES AND HEAD OUT TO THE NEW APPLE STORE TO PROTEST THE SHOPPERS WHO WERE IN LINE ALL NIGHT BUT ARE NOW NICE AND WARM INSIDE THE NEW APPLE STORE BUYING WHATEVER IT IS THEY COULD HAVE BOUGHT HAD THEY JUST HAD THE SENSE TO WALK OVER TO THE 5TH AVENUE STORE? THOSE PEOPLE ARE LOSERS AND THEY MAKE ME SO MAD!
AFTERWARDS WE WILL CELEBRATE OUR PROTEST ACROSS THE STREET BY EATING THE FINEST EXPENSIVE CHEESES AND BREADS FROM BOBOLINK DAIRY! I WILL HAVE TO ASK MY MOMMY FOR PERMISSION TO RIDE THE SUBWAY, HOWEVER!
sounds great!
but why are you screaming?
The people camping out in those pictures look like they could be homeless. Were they really camping out for the Apple store opening or just sleeping on the street because that's what they always do?
About a year ago my Sony All-in-One Vaio crashed. I wanted to replace it with a Dell. Their biggest dealer, Best Buy, had one on display in the 5th Avenue store. I asked someone to demonstrate it for me and they said Best Buy has a demo disc built into the unit. They couldn't get it to work. The next day I had to be on 86th Street and went to the Best Buy store there and they were even worse. On the urging of friends and family, I made an appointment with a person in the Apple 14th Street Store. The guy spent an hour with me and I was convinced. I haven't been sorry either, it's a superior product with much better after service. That's why their stores are so crowded.
are you fuck^ing kidding me!???????? Don't these people have better things to do than wait for a store to open??? What is apple doing? Giving away free stuff for the first 50 customers????
I KNOW DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU ANGRY THAT PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIFFERENT INTERESTS THAN YOU CHOOSE TO SPEND THEIR TIME PARTICIPATING IN ACTIVITIES DIFFERENTLY THAN HOW YOU CHOOSE TO SPEND YOUR TIME???!!?!? I MEAN WHO WOULD WASTE THEIR TIME STANDING IN LINE AT THE APPLE STORE WHEN YOU COULD BE SPENDING YOUR TIME WAITING FOR A CUPCAKE AT MAGNOLIA BAKERY LIKE I AM?^?? I AM OBVIOUSLY BETTER THAN THOSE APPLE LINE-STANDERS BECAUSE THE MAGNOLIA BAKERY LINE HAS BEEN AROUND MUCH LONGER THAN APPLE'S PLUS IT'S FULL OF COOL PEOPLE WHO LOVE SATC RATHER THAN COMPUTER NERDS AND BLOGGERS.
Your caps lock is on...
It's stuck from being out in the cold weather for so long last night.
Do you enjoy being known as a screamer.
what's the employee discount at Apple?
because that's the only way I can afford one.
Schools and their employees (teachers, etc) can get as much as 30% off the prices of Apple products.
In all fairness, that big box store was so brightly lit it's a miracle ships didn't try to dock in front. They could have been selling used condoms and it still would have attracted a crowd.
No wait for me. Walked in in 5 minutes, grabbed two shirts -- to ebay, of course.
Nerd alert!