LONDON iPHONE 5 MADNESS: 'You must be CRAZY to buy Apple'

Re: Just one question

I wouldn't usually answer my own question, but I have just been told they poop in their hands and then clap?

Dumb fookers

Re: Just one question

"Just one question

The line of sad individuals queuing, where do they poop?"

Out of their mouths.

Re: There's a 'queuing' paradox here.

I, too, deny my British heritage and refuse to queue unless absolutely necessary.

I don't queue for products. I buy something else, elsewhere, which is readily available, or wait for the queue to disappear (and get on with my life in the meantime)

I don't queue for food. If you can't be bothered to serve me in X amount of time, or put enough staff on, there's a high chance the kitchen is understaffed, the food is undercooked, the floors are under-washed and the stock under-checked.

I don't "get" queuing. If your product is so fabulous, you'll have made it easy for me to get. If your restaurant is so great, you won't keep me waiting or let a queue build up without informing people of their waiting time. If your bank is so wonderful for my savings, why can't you afford another cashier on the front-line?

I generally leave others to queue if they want (even people I'm queuing with - I have walked away from friends in queues in the past, got something else and came back to stand with them while I eat it. Their willpower seldom holds out to the front of the queue so they can buy something for themselves to eat...). My patience is limited in that, despite being near-infinite in other regards. I have not only left queues, I have left them vocally. I have stood in the front of a queue of 2 for ten minutes before being served only to tell them, quite clearly and unnecessarily loudly, to stuff it (because they were messing about behind the bar with a makeshift paper-ball football rather than serve me, despite having seen me waiting), and have them chase me down the street to try and serve me (I pointed out that if you take ten minutes to say a word to me, how long are my food/drink going to take after I've paid you?). The guy behind me was silly enough to want to take advantage and I hope they served him quicker than me, I really do. I'd *hate* to think he was in there for 20 minutes still waiting for his order after managing to gain one place in the queue.

A queue is a useful, necessary concept in some things. Other times it's wasteful and insulting to your customers. I'd rather go back to a place that closed the queues off once they hit ten minutes so they can actually serve people without disappointing than one with an eleven-minute, unmanaged queue.

Not once have I personally felt hard-done-by by this principle either.

Re: There's a 'queuing' paradox here.

I think that the real queuing paradox regarding the iPhone release is that if there was no queue, people wouldn't queue. People only queue because there is a queue. If that makes any sense at all.

In other words, it's a feedback loop - people only queue, because there is a queue and if there is a queue it (the product) must be worth queuing for. Or something.

Re: Apple = cult

Agreed.

"Apple is crazy, you have to be crazy for Apple"

Substitute Jesus for Apple, and that's exactly what members of whacko evangelical cults say.

Steve Jobs appears to have studied the manipulative psychological techniques that cults use, and applied them systematically in Apple's marketing strategy.

Re: Moonies, Scientologists and Apple Fanbois ...

So Android users aren't like that either?

I would say many of them are, many of them will not look at a Windows Phone either. So they are just as obsessive about Android despite WP being better for those who are into gaming and Google being pretty evil too.

Re: Sensationalism

Maybe she was beaming as she shrieked. Quite probable, actually.

quite the same level of piss take

you do from me!

now that its being done more the level of derision will rise

especially games - that black ops queing was sad indeed.

Wasnt there a video of someone coming out the shop with their Xbox and smashing it to pieces in front of the horrified queue?

I used to think that was a waste but now i think its money well spent. maybe it'll make some of those morons think what they're doing.

But we doo take the piss out of them!

The big difference is that the main stream media don't wet themselve over the "news" to the same degree.

Re: apple fanboys

> I hope android kills apple

That's hardly pro-choice is it? most of us want competition and choice to keep prices down and to stop monopoly abuse.

Your beloved Android would have been like a primitive Blackberry OS with a tiny screen, qwerty keypad and a stylus were it not for the iPhone 1.

Search for "Android prototype" and look at the images. It was never originally going to become a large touch screen phone until the success of the iPhone 1 (which everyone said would be a failure and it wasn't).

mega geeks...:)

they are very like this...ROFL LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZwx1zDTsSI

Re: Imported Americanisms

I was thinking along similar lines myself.

Whatever happened to the concept of the good old British "stiff upper lip"? —where, upon hearing that he had just been diagnosed with terminal cancer and that his entire family had been killed in a train crash, a "chap" might permit himself a slight furrow of the brow and a "dashed bad luck!", uttered between clenched teeth.

OK. Maybe that kind of behaviour is a bit stultifying but surely there's a happy medium that folk could adopt? Somewhere between expressing all the emotion of a cardboard cut-out and the 'Merkin style cavorting round, whooping and hollering like Steve Ballmer on LSD, every time someone waves the appropriate flag or badge in your face.

Re: Whatever floats your boat!

Most people just order them online. The online ordering this time had much more capacity so was quite quick and of course easy. Phone arrived today - job done.

Re: Maidstone didn't have queues

No just people are happy to order online - I queued once but after that just order online. My iPhone 5 arrived just after 9am - job done.

They pre-sold 2x more than the iPhone 4 which was already well up on the iPhone 3 so I suspect many more are doing the same.

Re: Maidstone didn't have queues

I remember the original iPhone launch. I worked at CPW head office and we were all asked to help with the iPhone launch.

The launch was as 6:02 (o2 were the launch partner) on a Friday evening in november. Stores had shut at 4.00PM to allow time to put the Jesus phone on display and set up the marketing materials.

I was assigned to a large CPW store on a retail park to help with queue control. Unfortunetly the rest of the retail park had shut so there was nobody around. We had 3 people in the Queue, 1 was waiting until the store reopened to pick up a repair, and the other 2 wanted Blackberrys.

I was almost having to drag people off the street to have a look at the bloody iPhone, we gave it until 7.30pm then shut up and went home.