People are already camping out to buy the new iPhone?

[shortylickens]

more lines.

Where is this? Alaska?

Cuz right now most of the country is at least 80 fuckin degrees.

 

[bbhaag]

A crowd draws a crowd.

I have seen new restaurants have their employees park up front for the first few weeks to make it seem busy, despite taking the "best" parking away from customers.

We do this in the off season. It works but not all the time.

 

[Eug]

The problem with flipping an iPhone is that Apple won't let you buy fully unlocked no contract version til couple months after the release. So you can't buy 7 or 10 or even 100 iphones at launch unless you're willing to sign contracts for all the lines. So the person who said they bought seven iPhones at launch to flip is full of BS unless that person signed or renewed 2yr contracts on all seven lines. You can't buy what Apple won't sell. Which was the last iPhone that was available for purchase unlocked/no contract at launch? iPhone 5/5S wasn't available for purchase unlocked/no contract til like 3 months after the launch.

You can buy the iPhone unlocked on launch day here although for the 5s I believe it was limited to two per person. This is in Canada. Dunno how it works in the US.

I have an unlocked 5s. Mine took several weeks to get but that was because it is the gold. I could have had one the first week without lining up but only in black/grey, which was the least desirable colour to me. The gold demand was massively underestimated. Silvers were also short on stock but there was a fair bit of stock around for the black.

A lot of people were flipping their gold units for 3-digit $ profit on Kijiji. This went on for a few weeks. Personally I think this is a total waste of time though. Not worth the hassle.

P.S. When I ordered my gold online I was about 1 minute too late for the initial batch. At that time there was still stock left for the silver however, and lots of availability of the black.

 

[alkemyst]

Who cares?

Actually I have never camped out for anything, my life focuses around vagina in my bed.

Many of my friends have had good times just camping out and meeting people in the same endeavors and some became great friends or even lovers.

That said they can now use that iPhone to shoot their own porn together.

 

[bradly1101]

If you watch the news you'll come away with the impression that Apple just invented the larger smartphone, NFC and the smartwatch. My two year old Galaxy S3 is from the future!

ABC = Apple Broadcasting Corporation?

 

[Mai72]

Bah.

Give me an Android anyday.

 

[Mai72]

These are the same people that are going to be bitching that things cost too much, and they don't make enough money.

Priorities people.