iPhone 4 launch Madness!!!!!

[PQ]

Originally Posted by Havok

What people will do when they see something shinny.

Case in point..............................

[JChen]

I originally tried to walk-in on Thursday morning but had to leave for work before I would have gotten to the front of the line so my plan was to get any leftovers from those who did not pick up their reserved phones this morning...

I called my local Apple Store just around 9pm last night and confirmed with them that all unspoken for reserved phones would become walk-in stock the next morning. I also confirmed that they would be actually closing at 9pm.

So I decide to go to the mall at 1:30am to wait it out. I'm the only one there and shut my eyes and fall asleep in my Camaro. At 2am, I am woken up by a tap on my window... It's a security guard checking to see why I'm there. I explain that I'm waiting for the Apple Store to open at 8am, he doesn't know that they're opening early again but we chat it up for a while. He tells me he started his shift at 9pm and the Apple Store was still selling phones to those who were in line. Roughly 10 people were still there at closing. I'm thinking that it's a good chance that more than 10 people didn't pick up their reserved phones. So I should still be in good shape for the morning. He then says, "Do you want to wait inside the mall?" Sure as hell beats sleeping in my car. He unlocks the front doors for me and tells me just to go find a couch and make myself comfortable! He also says that the mall will open at 5:30am so be sure to be in front of the Apple Store by then. Cruise control from here on out, right?

After a nice nap on a plush couch, 5:30am rolls by and I head to the Apple Store and am first in line. 30 minutes pass by and a few people have the same idea as me and start up a queue. Shorty after, an Apple employee comes to unlock the doors to the store and I ask him if there's any reserved phones that weren't picked up last night (all the walk-in stock was burned through by 4pm Thursday). He said he'd check and would be right back. The employee comes back and says "Unfortunately, we are all out." Heart. Sunk. He then goes on to say how they did stay open past 9pm and sold reserved phones to those still waiting in line. Now get this... He then says that he and a few other Apple employees purchased the reserved phones as well!!! Come on! Is that allowed??? I was a bit peeved but he did give me a Special K breakfast bar as compensation for getting screwed over.

In any event, I was placed on a new reservation list where I'd receive an email once new stock arrived and I could pick it up without waiting in line by the end of business the following day.

What chops my ass even more is that I was able to get a preorder in for my wife but not for myself on the 15th so she's been strutting around with the new iPhone since Wednesday

[topgun1]

Originally Posted by 2ndgenz28

Ill get one when they cost $20, Im no sheep that follows the useless trend herd ;0

a phone wont make you cool.

I don't even know if I'd pay $20! Just what everyone needs, something else to make them more distracted from families, jobs, and life itself. something else to deter people from enjoying the world outside their phone and actually physically communicating and talking to people or buying something in a walk-in store. Apple is laughing all the way to the bank with people that think they have to have the latest and greatest, do everything phone. Give me a phone that freakin makes calls and has voicemail, i'm good to go. Grown adults acting like 10 year olds at Christmas with these things.

yeah, like PQ said in other words, you'll be way more popular with your Camaro than your iPhone.

[lee]

pq, thats the first time ive seen your car without bonnie next to it, whats up with that man your slipping lol

[JChen]

Originally Posted by topgun1

I don't even know if I'd pay $20! Just what everyone needs, something else to make them more distracted from families, jobs, and life itself. something else to deter people from enjoying the world outside their phone and actually physically communicating and talking to people or buying something in a walk-in store. Apple is laughing all the way to the bank with people that think they have to have the latest and greatest, do everything phone. Give me a phone that freakin makes calls and has voicemail, i'm good to go. Grown adults acting like 10 year olds at Christmas with these things.

yeah, like PQ said in other words, you'll be way more popular with your Camaro than your iPhone.

Spoken like someone who's on Verizon. To each his own. I use my iPhone for work 90% of the time. Call or text my wife with it the other 10%.

However, having the new iPhone in addition to my Camaro won't make me more popular with my wife, or get me laid more often.

[TaylorRyanSS]

Originally Posted by topgun1

I don't even know if I'd pay $20! Just what everyone needs, something else to make them more distracted from families, jobs, and life itself. something else to deter people from enjoying the world outside their phone and actually physically communicating and talking to people or buying something in a walk-in store. Apple is laughing all the way to the bank with people that think they have to have the latest and greatest, do everything phone. Give me a phone that freakin makes calls and has voicemail, i'm good to go. Grown adults acting like 10 year olds at Christmas with these things.

yeah, like PQ said in other words, you'll be way more popular with your Camaro than your iPhone.

I don't buy these phones to be cool, I buy them because I love technology, the design of the phone and all the features and cool apps. Just because you aren't into it doesn't mean you have to put people down for it. And I am not a grown adult, i'm 20

[n!ght r!der]

Originally Posted by topgun1

I don't even know if I'd pay $20! Just what everyone needs, something else to make them more distracted from families, jobs, and life itself. something else to deter people from enjoying the world outside their phone and actually physically communicating and talking to people or buying something in a walk-in store. Apple is laughing all the way to the bank with people that think they have to have the latest and greatest, do everything phone. Give me a phone that freakin makes calls and has voicemail, i'm good to go. Grown adults acting like 10 year olds at Christmas with these things.

yeah, like PQ said in other words, you'll be way more popular with your Camaro than your iPhone.

Thats like saying "give me a car that has 4 wheels and a windshield, i'm good to go." but you're driving a camaro (top of the line, in fact).. not a ford festiva. Its not about popularity, people will always want new stuff no matter what it is.. its just a way of life.

[topgun1]

more power to you guys, we still share our same like for the Camaro at least!

[FenwickHockey65]

[TaylorRyanSS]

Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65

Haha so true but the iPhone is worth it

[xxbrankxx]

I'm still rocking my old 2006 RAZR phone , I'd really like to upgrade to the iPhone 4. I'm on T-Mobile and I moved and get no reception at all in my new place and my RAZR is on its last legs, I could always buy a new phone from T-Mobile but it would be pointless since I get no signal with T-Mobile. So hopefully when the iPhone 4 is more plentiful I'll switch to AT&T which actually gets good coverage in my new area.

[Maa107]

Well just got back from my weekend vacation and man the iPad is awesome! No I was not on it 24/7, I did enjoy myself a lot! The main reason I bought this was bcuz I'm always on the go and I'm always needing to do homework (I'm taking 3 online summer classes) and it has 3g so I really didn't want to get a contract with verizon or Att. On iPad all I do is pay for the month I need 3g the most and I'm good to go! And those of you who say "People just buy these useless gadgets just to jump on the band wagon or to look cool and impress people"...have you ever given thought that maybe some people buy things such as these to make their life easier? I could care less what anyone thinks of what I do or don't have, if it makes me happy and/or my life easier than I'm buying it! All I gotta say is that this thing is cool and if your thinking of getting it then get it...

[PQ]

Originally Posted by lee

pq, thats the first time ive seen your car without bonnie next to it, whats up with that man your slipping lol

I thought about taking a pic with her on her knees and they'd BOTH be without 'wheels' lol

[motorhead]

Iphone 4 sucks. Better stick with the 3GS until they fix all the problems with the i4.