The one-week iQueue. The saddest fanboys of the lot

[editor]

These sad iFuckwits intend to queue for a week to get the 3G iPhone. Which they could probably buy on the day anyway.

So we heard some really over-eager folks have decided to get a jump on the iPhone 3G line -- a really, really big jump. Obviously, we had to head down and see if it was true... and it is. Right now, about ten people have started a line outside of Apple's flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York. Word is that the family at the head of the queue are attempting to break some kind of record which involves their baby -- which kind of sounds a little intense if you ask us. On the other hand, you didn't hear Greg Packer complaining, right? We're going to wrangle some of these cats for an interview and video, so stay tuned! For right now, check some more pics after the break.!

http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/iphone-3g-lines-start-at-the-apple-cube-one-week-early/

 

[DotCommunist]

lol, dickheads

 

[Iam]

Oh dear.

 

[Crispy]

Weirdos

 

[Gromit]

I think its more about getting on telly than worry about not getting their phone.

 

[Iam]

His Macbook's never gonna last a week on batteries!

Unless he has a *lot* of them...

 

[DotCommunist]

he has wanky facial hair too

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I'd love to be at the front of one of those queues, but be very obviously using a windows laptop. Then walk into the store, buy the first phone, and smash it to bits with a hammer in front of all the cameras/staff/fanboys.

 

[Yossarian]

A week waiting in line? Aren't their relationships and social lives going to suffer?

 

[DotCommunist]

A week waiting in line? Aren't their relationships and social lives going to suffer?

 

[FaradayCaged]

I'd love to be at the front of one of those queues, but be very obviously using a windows laptop. Then walk into the store, buy the first phone, and smash it to bits with a hammer in front of all the cameras/staff/fanboys.

Have you happend to have seen one of these?

 

[Lottie]

They are all employed by Apple as marketing monkeys, you do all know that?

 

[onthebrightside]

iWasteofalife

 

[longdog]

I'd love to be at the front of one of those queues, but be very obviously using a windows laptop. Then walk into the store, buy the first phone, and smash it to bits with a hammer in front of all the cameras/staff/fanboys.

Or be first in the queue and buy all of the phones they have in stock

 

[pinkmonkey]

They are all employed by Apple as marketing monkeys, you do all know that?

It wouldn't surprise me - when Skechers first launched in Europe they booked the biggest booth at the trade show and employed loads of actors to pose as buyers, to make it look busy.

Apple fanboys give me the heebie jeebies but Ekins are far sadder (Nike employees who get swoosh tattoos on their ankles)- although I wonder if Apple fanboys get Apple tats.

Brand worship is sad innit?

 

[isitme]

Gives them something to do

There is so much stuff that is mystifying. like people spending hundred of pounds to go and stand in a crowded muddy field listening to shit music

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Apple fanboys give me the heebie jeebies but Ekins are far sadder (Nike employees who get swoosh tattoos on their ankles)- although I wonder if Apple fanboys get Apple tats.

Cory Doctorow had an Apple tattoo on his right bicep, but he's switched to using Ubuntu now because he didn't like the way Apple's DRM was going. I am not sure whether he still has the tattoo, or has had it removed, or even has somehow turned it into a penguin.

 

[dervish]

Be quite amusing if Apple had to delay the launch by a month...

 

[Hi-ASL]

I might get a McDonalds tattoo. Or Pot Noodle.

Yeah, Pot Noodle.

 

[dlx1]

why the fuck to mock. It up to them what they do with there time!

 

[editor]

why the fuck to mock. It up to them what they do with there time!

And we're equally free to to take the piss out of them for being fanboy cocks.

 

[pinkmonkey]

Be quite amusing if Apple had to delay the launch by a month...

I'd like to set up an it's a knockout style assault course on the street which they have to complete to get a phone (all painted white of course). Make them jump through some proper hoops....

 

[editor]

I'd like to set up an it's a knockout style assault course on the street which they have to complete to get a phone (all painted white of course). Make them jump through some proper hoops....

Let them *prove* their love of Apple or it's no phone for them!

Those in the iQueue should be compelled to lick the sole of Steve Jobb's dog-poo drenched iShoes before entering the hallowed iCathedral of iConsumerism, else they'll only be allowed to own a WM phone.

 

[pinkmonkey]

<wonders if Steve Jobbs does white i-poo>

 

[Gingerman]

Defines the word "sad"

 

[Cloud]

I queued up to buy the world of warcraft expansion, mainly for my son ofc, but it was only a 1 hour wait. Quite suprising thou, only 8 copies at the local 24 hour tesco and we got the last one, 7 local nerds beat us to it (wanted two copies).

erm thats about all I have queued up for on a launch day.

Seems to be a common thing with gadgets now, started off with toys in the late 80's, early 90's. Now the brats have grown up

 

[Voley]

I queued hours for Nirvana tickets. Not overnight, mind, but I did get out of bed at 4am. I imagine this lot would find that equally sad.

Particularly when you consider that the gig never happened as Kurt Cobain rather inconsiderately topped himself.

 

[editor]

I queued hours for Nirvana tickets. Not overnight, mind, but I did get out of bed at 4am. I imagine this lot would find that equally sad.

Duff comparison. You queued for a few hours for a one-off event with limited tickets. These tragic fanboys are queuing for a week to buy something that they can probably buy by just turning up on the actual day, or - at worst - by waiting a little while.

 

[Silva]

And I thought it was bizarre when a lot of 15-yr olds waited in front of the Pavilhão Atlântico for the Tokyo Hotel gig for a week. At least they have the excuse of being teenagers with too much hormones.

I don't remember queuing for anything. Except tickets for some match a few years ago, and it was about 30 minutes.

 

[editor]

I'm mighty keen on my phone, but even if they announced a new super-duper, do-everything new version, there is no way on earth I'd queue up for days for it if I could get it over the net or by turning up at the shop on the release day. Or any day a week later in fact.

And if some iFuckwit tried to highfive me after I bought a phone I'd laugh in their pathetic face, and I'd never, ever, ever run out of a shop whooping like an over-active schoolboy waving products in the air.