Lines around the block for iPhone 6.

[trumad]

Just drove by my local Verizon store and saw a line around the store. I immediately let out a chuckle.

People love their gadgets... me...I can wait.

[Earth_First]

1. Is this for a product-in-hand sale or presale?

I don't follow along closely enough to know...

[trumad]

2. In hand...

[yeoman6987]

55. I feel so outdated. I still have my I-phone 4.

It works and does what I need so I haven't had the desire to update. Apple makes a stellar product which is part of the appeal.

[notadmblnd]

3. I think Apple pays people to show up and stand in line

Do you know any people that are standing in line for it? I don't. Does anyone know anyone personally that spent the night outside in line waiting or a silly phone?

[Recursion]

5. "Nobody I know voted for Nixon"

A line of 800 people is amazingly long, and the chance that you know a given 800 people in a decent-sized city is vanishingly small.

[notadmblnd]

23. I wasn't saying that anyone should know any of the people that were actually standing in the line.

I was asking if anyone knew among their friends and acquaintances.

Among my friends and acquaintances, I know no one who even spoke about the new I-phone let alone mention that they were going to go stand in line waiting for the store to open to get one.

[former9thward]

39. How many of your friends voted for Romney?

Yet, 61 million people did.

[notadmblnd]

41. I'm certain that I do know people that voted for Romney

Out of all the people I encounter on a weekly basis, I'm thinking I could name a dozen maybe two.

[still_one]

53. I am sure some do, because people have to work don't they?

[Sherman A1]

4. Got an email

from my cell company late last night letting me know that they would be available for sale today.

I bought an older model direct from Apple and had the cell company install their sim card, a little over a year ago and I think I will hang on to it for the next couple of years. When you buy the phone outright, I find that one is a bit less interested in chasing the latest and greatest.

[hobbit709]

6. Proving once again the i in any iPOS stands for idiot.

[malaise]

7. The only thing I ever lined up for was ice

during the eight weeks without electricity following Hurricane Gilbert in 1988.

[Downwinder]

8. Stood in enough lines in the military to last a lifetime.

[stevenleser]

9. The apple store on 59th st and 5th ave here in manhattan has a line over 4 blocks long.

I work some of the time in the GM building. The apple store is right in front of it.

[Le Taz Hot]

10. Just an FYI:

Last year I happened to be at the AT & T store with my husband and asked the clerk if they had a good deal on a smart phone (espoused one was getting one and I wanted one too but we couldn't afford two). He replied that, since the iPhone 5's had just come out, they were selling the iPhone 4's for $1.00. Those of you who still have 4's might be able to get a deal for a 5 with your carrier.

[bettyellen]

21. yep- the 5s are now a dollar or a hundred for the nicer one for upgrades

[ScreamingMeemie]

34. It was free at ATT, but I don't do Apple products.

I went with a MotoX (also free because the new one is out), and I love it.

[CaptainTruth]

11. I would never buy the first new products off the assembly line.

I used to work in consumer electronics as an engineer. Part of what I did was oversee the testing of CE products. There were many, many, many (a LOT) of times we found problems with new products & the manufacturer would tell us they would fix it with a running change after 50,000 units, sometimes 100,000 units.

If I want a new CE product I make sure it's been on the market at least 6 months before I buy it. The people who line up to get the first units off the line are just asking for problems, those will be the most bug & defect-laden products.

[Jazzgirl]

24. ^^^This^^^

i have learned never buy a new model right away and wait a few months for a few batches so they work the bugs out. I have a 5 now but will wait to upgrade.

[steve2470]

28. so true

It's the same way with desktop graphics cards. It pays to wait or buy the last generation.

[Boom Sound 416]

12. Agreed. Never understood it.

[snooper2]

13. Shots Fired: Samsung Disses The iPhone 6 In New "Note 4" Advertisement! (Video) HD

Hilarious

[JNelson6563]

15. Fun stuff!

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. Is that the "one speaker, and I'm sitting on it" one?

Good stuff.

[Logical]

50. They are way ahead of Apple. But don't have the cult following Apple does. nt

[B Calm]

14. Just went to AT&T and bought another flip phone.

[Blue_Adept]

16. Ah, the fun smug superiority of people

in threads like this always amuse. The whole "I'm better than those people" take that we get every. single. time. one of these new products are out.

[PasadenaTrudy]

18. Yep.

Gets old and so not amusing...

[wickerwoman]

30. +1

How insecure do you have to be to keep popping up in every bloody Apple thread putting people down for being enthusiastic about a product. Grow the f'ck up people.

I would never wait in line for concert tickets or sports tickets or to get a body part signed by a famous person but that doesn't mean people who do are idiots. It means that they're into something I'm not that into. That's not actually a crime or an indication of their intelligence. If they want to spend their own damn money on it, it's none of my business.

We need more enthusiasm and happiness in the world, not less.

[JI7]

45. in the case of tickets for live shows they are limited unlike phones where you can

get one a little later.

[Logical]

51. I assume you are in line when you posted this! LOL!

[Blue_Adept]

60. Nope

I tend to stay about a year behind on my upgrades for various reasons when it comes to the phones. Some I'm more near the front, others the timing doesn't work well for me.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. I'm sure they all just want to be prepared with a good phone so they can phone bank before Nov 4.

[bettyellen]

22. works for me! my 2 1/2 year old phone has had a workout for sure, time for a fresh one!

[PasadenaTrudy]

19. I have to wait until March

when my contract expires. Not sure which one I'll get, but leaning towards the 6+. I used to camp out for concert tix. It was fun and I made new friends. I don't see what the big deal is.

[maryellen99]

25. I have to wait until December I'm getting the 6

[PasadenaTrudy]

36. I may end with the smaller one

I'll play with them both and see.

[maryellen99]

20. It's not a gadget but

The only thing I plan to stand in line for is to see Star Wars Episode VII.

[LanternWaste]

26. I stood in line for seven hours to see Star Wars in 1977.

I stood in line for seven hours to see Star Wars in 1977. Had no idea at the time I was being smug.Although it was a fun afternoon, I now recognize my sins for what they were, and stand in humble awe of everyone too clever to see the film that summer.

[still_one]

27. In New York on 5th avenue they said it was 13 blocks long. Here in Northern California the lines

quite longs also. I agree with you, why waste your time waiting in line, and worse yet, what happens if you get up there and they are sold out

[FrodosPet]

44. 1998. Jimmy Buffett.

I learned my lesson about long lines when the show sold out in 7 minutes.

[still_one]

52. I hope they told the people in line that it was sold out, they didn't need to wait until they got to

the front

[NuclearDem]

29. ...

[hifiguy]

33. Perfect!

I still have an iPhone 3 of some sort and it does everything I need and zillions of things I will never need.

[jambo101]

31. Its called techno addiction

Which will in the not too distant future be relegated to a simple chip implant that will enable you to meet all your techno needs by a mere thought.Techno junkies

[SummerSnow]

32. The future of iPhones...

[Codeine]

37. If the iPhone6 is out

then it's time for me to get an iPhone5. Being one generation behind is much less expensive.

[jambo101]

38. Some iPhone humor.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=iphone+addiction&safe=active&biw=768&bih=484&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=yLccVNLXOM-cyAS95IHwAw&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

[MoonRiver]

40. Same here,

plus physically I cannot stand in line anymore. Makes things simple.

[cwydro]

42. I know, it's so funny.

People always do this. I don't get it.

[denbot]

43. I stood in line, and got one today.

After many years of not carrying one, my wife decided to get a cell phone due to a trip she is taking with her friend next month. We have three phones with verizon, and we're going to add Alley (my wife) to the plan with the new phone first being offer to our daughter as a birthday present (actual B-D next month).

She declined holding out for a car next month when she turns 18 and finally gets her license. So off to the verizon store we go even though I had just got home an hour earlier from a couple of weeks on the road. We get there and see a cordoned off area with about 5-6 people standing in line.

A store employee asks me to fill out a short form asking me if I am a new customer or adding a line and which phone I wanted.

We (my wife and I) found out from the people who got in line behind us that today was the first day the iPhone 6's were being offered, and that even though the local Apple store was out do stock already there was still a huge line (50 or so people).

It took about 15 minutes before we had a store rep bring us in, the only hitch being that the 16gb phones were out of stock so I had to pay extra for the 64gb model.

The first thing I noticed with the phone is the computing power runs my fantasy football site noticeably better then my 5c, which is now Alley's. Also the video chat, camera, and sound is also quite improved over the 5c.

I am fairly new to Apple products, introduced through using iPads as a very portable personal internet/communication device and especially, as a tool for my job as a trucker.

Say what you will about Apple products, I have found them to be solid, trouble free, and very versatile communications platforms.

[Initech]

46. I can't upgrade until March so I'm in no hurry.

Although I like Stephen Colbert when he said that Satan's contracts are easier to get out of than AT&T's.

[davidpdx]

47. Never had an iPhone, probably never will

They are too expensive. I had a regular cell phone since I started using one in 2001 and finally got an android phone last December. My last phone was 5 years old when I retired it and it still works(yeah I'm cheap). The main reason was so that I could use Skype as I have a phone number back in the US where people can call me here in Korea.

Jon Stewart was making a crack the other day about people spending too much of their life looking at their cell phone. He hit the nail on the head about that.

[jambo101]

48. I dont get it

I think i've finally become old as i view cell phones in general as new fangled contraptions and as yet havent owned a cell phone to date.I'm still trying to figure out who would i call with such a device and what would i say,
My phone on the wall in my house hasnt rang or been used in 5 months.

[ksoze]

49. It's not a phone

For many, the cellular phone capability is secondary to its capability as a digital communication device that doubles as a computer, game console, GPS and instant link to all friends and foes. Most communication involves no voice, but text, VM and FB posts. Welcome to the future.

[lumberjack_jeff]

54. A smartphone is a slick device.

When I consider all the functionality baked into such a small device, (dig camera, watch, e-reader, laptop, pda, mp3 player, phone, pager, gps) it's like magic. I'm old enough to consider each of its constituent functions to be pretty novel.

But the functional differences between a cheap smartphone and an expensive one are subtle.

[wickerwoman]

59. I rarely use the phone on my phone.

What I use all the time is the GPS and some of the other apps. It's basically a little computer you carry around with you. It was a total life saver when I was apartment hunting in a strange city with no car. I could pull up the real estate listings, map them and find my current position relative to the place I was looking for. I do site visits for my job and don't have GPS in the company car so it's a great help there too. And it's great for finding restaurants, shops, movie times, etc. when you're on the go.

At bus stops, you can type in the stop number and it will tell you what time all the next buses are coming, even out in the sticks. You can pull up all the route info, etc. I've also got a quiz app on my phone to kill time until the bus comes. Or I can read the news/check DU.

It's also great as a back-up when my computer isn't working for whatever reason. I was able to look up the service centre on my phone and book the computer in for repairs. And then I could still check emails and do some important financial transactions at home while the computer was being fixed instead of having to schlepp to the library or furtively do personal stuff at work.

I was a late, late adopter (still had a very basic flip phone until 2012) but I'm completely hooked on my iPhone now.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

56. I don't understand why people do this.

There must be some cachet for being the first to have these things that I totally don't get. I have an iPhone; I like it; but I was perfectly happy to wait until I could just waltz into the Apple Store one afternoon when there wasn't a crowd and just buy the damn thing like any other bit of merchandise.

I used to know somebody who always had to be the first to have the latest new thing. Never understood why it was such a big deal for her, but she was sort of a show-off in other respects as well so I guess it was consistent with her personality.

[bobGandolf]

57. Didn't you mean "lemmings" around the store? (I know story's not true.) n/t

[3catwoman3]

58. I decided to get an android phone when our younger son...

...started college. I knew he was much more likely to answer a text than a call of a voice mail. His voice mail message even says, "Hi, this is Taylor. Don't leave a message.

I had a little flip phone for just shy of 6 years. One of the things I liked about it was that it reminded me of the original series Star Trek communicators. Nerdy, I know. I kind of miss it.

My "smart" phone, an HTC Evo, is smarter than I am. I am somewhat techno-challenged, and still don't know everything it does. I just now, after 3 years, finally got around to recording a personal greeting on the voice mail function. It does take fine pictures of all our cats -

I will not be standing in line.

[brooklynite]

61. I stood in line at the Apple Store in Denver...

Got there at 5 AM and got my phone at 1 PM. The people there were -not- plants. I recommend trying it (once) as a sociological experience.