Apple fans are posted up and ready to spend the night at the Carlsbadistan Apple store at the Forum Stores to be the first to get the new Apple iPhone 4.0. By 10:15 PM tonight (June 23, 2010) there were close to 80 people waiting. Some in chairs, others in sleeping bags, and a few even brought aero beds so they could sleep on the sidewalk in comfort.
“I’ve been here since 2:30 this afternoon,” said the girl at the front of the line. She was in a chair with her laptop and wrapped in a Snuggie blanket ready to stay all night in front of the store.
The rest in the crowd were doing much the same thing. Some played cards, others worked on laptops while their batteries lasted. Apple for there part had done nothing but put up a couple signs and covered the front windows with heavy black drapes. Inside, Apple employees busily set up the store for tomorrow morning’s sales rush.
Apple, which has sold 3 million iPads in the last 80 days, pre-sold 600,000 on June 15 and could sell and estimated 42 million of the phones during 2010, according to story in Fortune. With the looks of the line in Carlsbad, Apple seems to be right on track.
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Because you just can’t wait to multitask all your solitaire apps…. You gotta hand it to Apple. ‘Ol Steve Jobs sat down in a meeting and said “How can we cyphen money from idiots that define themselves by theit comuter and telephone?”
I’ll bet not one of these people in line can tell you who their congressional representative is, or who the mayor of Carlsbad. But they know how to facebook!
Andwe wonder how misfits like Obama, Pelosi, and Boxer get elected….
ALL OF YOU ARE WHY THIS COUNTRY IS SO SCREWED UP!
Ah, but I bet they can spell ‘siphon’…..
Almost as bad as leaving a bitchy comment about people “wasting their time” lining up for a phone…. oh … wait…