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

[Gromit]

And if people want to rightly rip the fuck out of this ghastly PR manufactured feast of high-fivin' corporate consumerism, let them...

Thats easily achieved. Don't go and buy your phone during launch week when all the rabbid fan boys are queuing.

Or do you think that they'll whoop and high five every iPhone sale from now until the next launch?

Do you think they'll take the phone back off you if a staff member puts their hand up for a high five and you ignore them? Is it a compulsory part of the contract that you must return the high fives? Treat em no different than you would a survey taker with a clip board who are also paid to annoy members of the public who just want to be left alone.

 

[revol68]

To you. For some others with real geek gadget lust the reverse could be said and for a third group who are into flower arranging flowers are more important to them than music or gadgets. Its different strokes for different folks innit.

If people want to enjoy the hype let them, if companies want to pay people to provide that big event hype for them let them. Okay its not for you guys cause you aren't into the product the same way but i better for the things you are into you enjoy making a big event out of it.

Just like Harry Potter fans queuing up at premiers all dressed up. Not my cup of tea but doesn't make em scum or the event producers scum for putting on a big red carpet show does it? For shame on them making those actors go out and put a show on for the crowds.

So Apple have put on a big show for their fan boys. Shame on them. Don't they know they should be reserved and stiff upper lipped. Whilst we are at it spread the message to those ten pin bowler high fivers, all you did was knock some pins down saddos.

A new Harry Potter is at least a new story, people are obviously eager to know what happens next in something, it's not comparable to a piece of hardware that doesn't do anything new or exciting that isn't available on some other phone or platform. Oh look you can check your email, oh you can wifi connect, oh look it plays mp3's, how fucking ground breaking. The fact is the hype isn't about the actual product or it's uses it's about a brand and image that Apple have made and which alot of fuckwits seem to think is really creative, revolutionary and individual, like they like to think of themselves. That's why you don't get tossers queuing for a week for the LG and Nokia phones that are just as capable.

At least there is something endearingly dorky and sad about the Star Wars fans who camped out for the new movies, or the Harry Potter fans, the Apple lot on the other hand are a bunch of smug pseudo hipster cunts who have bought into Apple as some zeitgeist shaping technological style house and their products as facilitators and extensions of their 'lifestyles'.

 

[Iam]

In fairness, getting on the wrong side of a complete, utter knobber like you makes having one all the more worthwhile.

 

[revol68]

In fairness, getting on the wrong side of a complete, utter knobber like you makes having one all the more worthwhile.

wrong side of me.

right on with these legends,

anyway i'm off for an iDump.

 

[paolo]

Somewhere along the way - of hunting down videos and photos - there is a fine line between it being a healthy counterpoint to obsessive behaviour, and it becoming obsessive behaviour itself.

 

[revol68]

Somewhere along the way - of hunting down videos and photos - there is a fine line between it being a healthy counterpoint to obsessive behaviour, and it becoming obsessive behaviour itself.

all first page results for Apple fanboy google image search.

 

[SK.]

Sums up iPhoney fanboys nicely for me.

 

[Gromit]

I left my phone at home today so if the O2 store rang or the CPW emailed I missed it.

O2 store had a delivery. Sold out. They wouldn't tell me how mnay units they recieved. More than on Launch day? He wouldn't answer.

CPW aren't answering their telephones in Merthyr Retail Park, Town Centre, Pontypridd or Newport Road Cardiff.
North Road Cardiff answered. They didn't receive any today.

So still no 3G phone for me yet.

I thought hey why don't i order online off Apple. They don't have an online store for iPhones.
How about a retail outlet. They don't have one in Wales. The one in Cardiff must have shut up shop.

This is the reason i wanted to get one on launch day. So i wouldn't have weeks of chasing rainbows. Oh well.

 

[Sunray]

Could just get a 8Gb one, plenty of those round this and on the website.

 

[TitanSound]

A friend of mine queued from 5am at his local O2 shop. He friend got one (at the expense of a shitload of ridicule from me) but they only had 14 phones in stock but let a massive queue build up anyway. That would have fucked me off royally.

 

[jæd]

A friend of mine queued from 5am at his local O2 shop. He friend got one (at the expense of a shitload of ridicule from me) but they only had 14 phones in stock but let a massive queue build up anyway. That would have fucked me off royally.

Yep...? A mate got told about the shipment to CPW yesterday (he was in CPW on Weds) and was told to go in 11 am. He didn't turn up until around 2pm, and got the last one...

 

[PA68]

I pre-ordered online on 7th July. Still haven't recived mine yet and 02 customer services give no indication of when they'll send it out. They even claimed not to know anything about this delivery of stock that their website says they'll be getting today. I'm pretty unimpressed with the O2 experience so far.

 

[Gromit]

Could just get a 8Gb one, plenty of those round this and on the website.

I could have gotten a 8gb by now. Places have had them and still have them. Only problem is, I don't want an 8gb.

Ideally I want a 16gb White but I know that I'm going to have to settle for a 16gb Black as I don't live in an area with an Apple store as 02 and CPW don't seem to be ordering the white, at least not around here they aren't.

 

[editor]

None more tragic.

http://www.ipopwear.com/

 

[Iam]

Yeah, I pity the kid whose parents get them that.

 

[Structaural]

oh dear, but then any branded t-shirt is wank.

 

[boskysquelch]

 

[Iam]

Lol

 

[jæd]

Lol

They're both kind of amusing, but we have to sneer at everything on here, obviously...

 

[editor]

They're both kind of amusing, but we have to sneer at everything on here, obviously...

How dare we sneer at tiny babies being dressed in corporate brand labels!

 

[jæd]

How dare we sneer at tiny babies being dressed in corporate brand labels!

They are slightly amusing renditions of icons from a popular gadget. Please point out the corporate branding...? Hint: Apple have good lawyers...

 

[Kanda]

Yer..

 

[Iam]

They're both kind of amusing, but we have to sneer at everything on here, obviously...

What the fuck are you on about?

What you've quoted is me being amused, by the TCP/IP one. There's no branding at all on there, you divot.

I thought you had me on ignore, anyway.

 

[jæd]

What the fuck are you on about?

What you've quoted is me being amused, by the TCP/IP one. There's no branding at all on there, you divot.

I thought you had me on ignore, anyway.

Fixed that for you...

 

[editor]

They are slightly amusing renditions of icons from a popular gadget. Please point out the corporate branding...?

Err... hello? Are you a bit thick today? It's a clearly identifiable Apple iPhone. Apple is a corporate brand. The shape and design of the iPhone forms part of their 'brand.'

Yer..

Hideous. And a bit tragic too.

 

[editor]

What the fuck are you on about?

What you've quoted is me being amused, by the TCP/IP one. There's no branding at all on there, you divot.

LOL.

 

[jæd]

Err... hello? Are you a bit thick today? It's a clearly identifiable Apple iPhone. Apple is a corporate brand. The shape and design of the iPhone forms part of their 'brand.'

Of course... If someone disagrees with you lets "brand" them as thick.

If Apple thought it was a copy of their branding, I'm sure they'd be the first to complain...

 

[Iam]

Fixed that for you...

Thanks. The more self important, puffed-up little coders I don't ever have to speak to again, the better.

 

[editor]

If Apple thought it was a copy of their branding, I'm sure they'd be the first to complain...

I don't think you understand what branding is. The iPhone's shape and icon design are as much a part of Apple's branding as the iconic silhouetted dancers for the iPods, the white headphones and the logo itself.

Here. Read and learn:

A brand is a collection of images and ideas representing an economic producer; more specifically, it refers to the concrete symbols such as a name, logo, slogan, and design scheme. Brand recognition and other reactions are created by the accumulation of experiences with the specific product or service, both directly relating to its use, and through the influence of advertising, design, and media commentary.

A brand is a symbolic embodiment of all the information connected to a company, product or service. A brand serves to create associations and expectations among products made by a producer. A brand often includes an explicit logo, fonts, color schemes, symbols, sound which may be developed to represent implicit values, ideas, and even personality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand

 

[Gromit]

Well after 25 iDays of iTrying iGot my iPhone 3G 16gb.

No high fives or whooping but I was told 'Well Done'.
I nearly replied well done is that it? I want a fucking fanfare after the hassle I've been through.
But she was well fit likeinnit, so I didn't. Not her fault.