Sunday, August 24, 2008
People with nothing better to do Saturday lined up outside new Fort Worth Apple store
There's an Apple product worth lining up for.
We've seen the lines before outside the Apple store when some new product is released. Such was a similar scene in Fort Worth when the latest Apple store at University Park Village opened its doors Saturday morning. This is the fifth Apple store in DFW.
One can just groan silently thinking about the trendies lined up outside a store to buy products they can easily acquire elsewhere (oh, I don't know, online store? AT&T store?). But among the more upsetting quotes in this S-T story is from a 41-year-old man who had gotten in line at 6 a.m. with no intentions on buying anything. He just wanted to be part of the "phenomenon." There really is no hope for the human race.
Posted by Erin
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AnnMarie Wilson says:
I have to admit, we stood in line for about 1.5 hours when Apple released Panther umteen years ago at (stop I have to remember where)... Willow Bend!
Anyway, we hadn't gone to <b>'buy'</b> either - but to just experience the complete electricity of fellow Apple fanatics.
And let me tell you it <b>WAS</b> electric! From teens to seniors, talking, laughing, iPods on, laptops in hand.... card games... it was worth every single minute to both of us just for the <b>sheer experience</b>.
We did it once, I can't imagine ever doing it again. But everyone should do something like this (for what ever item, if only one time) to ride that electric wave.
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snowboard9 says:
Yeah, but interacting with people in-line is better than interacting with people on-line, if you get my drift. We are a generation of anonymous hacks hiding behind our keyboards. At least these people are interacting face to to face!
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Scott Doyle says:
Only if you're an Apple fanboi, snowboard9. Otherwise, you find yourself fighting the urge to slap every person around you...and then yourself for thinking it wouldn't be that bad.
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Scott Doyle says:
Also, We are a generation of anonymous hacks hiding behind our keyboards.
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Just sayin'.
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jtmbls says:
Such a barbarian! :-)
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Jason Rice says:
I gotta think "interacting in line at" an Apple Store is the ultimate echo chamber.
For the two of us that haven't printed this out already:
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AnnMarie Wilson says:
I'm officially ignoring you from now on Jason.... :PPPPPPPPP
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Jason Rice says:
I do that to girls I get a crush on too ;o)
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Pavel Lishin says:
There's a reason I usually prefer to interact online rather than in-line. And that reason is people.
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Jason Rice says:
I thought it was restraining orders.
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Pavel Lishin says:
Which are served by <b>people</b>!
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Jason Rice says:
Set, Game and Match goes to Pavel Lishin
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