iPhone 3G mania- line forming a week early in NYC
You couldn’t make this stuff up and it could only happen in New York but engadget is reporting that a line has already started outside the Fifth Avenue Apple Store. The iPhone 3G won’t go on sale for a week but there is photo documented proof that at least 10 people are already in line to guarantee they can pick up the new iPhone next week. We haven’t heard any word on lines forming near podcast co-host Matt Miller’s home in Washington but no one’s heard from him for a few days. He usually waits until the night before to camp out for an iPhone though.
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Wait in line a few hours?
Wait in line for a week?
Hmm… Hard choice.
Well, I have heard he’s been seen loitering within tent.
In some countries people are making line for a fistful of rice… And maybe get nothing at the end… And in some others places, people do the same thing for the last gadget… The world is walking on the head !
Crazy or so stupid ?
all this over a phone…
can someone please point the way out of bizarro-world?
All this for a phone that will not be sold out anyway?
In Italy a lot of people are trying to boicot the 3G iPhone.
Vodafone’s base price is 2184 USD for 2 years, with only 600 MB/month of data.
http://www.areaprivati.190.it/190/trilogy/jsp/programView.do?contentKey=37335&pageTypeId=9607&channelId=-8665&programId=10066&tk=9607%2Cc&ty_key=fdt_pri_iPromoIPhone_Vodafone_Facile_per_iPhone
http://www.iphoneaffossato.com/
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Are we sure this isn’t a photo from the day before original iPhone launch? It is hard to imagine people actually camping out for a week.
Are you sure that’s not matt under the green tarp James?
Losers