Lots of people are going out and buying the new iPhone, or the “Revolutionary Phone.”
I, on the other hand, don’t even know what the hell an iPhone is and still use my dinky little Sprint cell phone from college - it doesn’t even take video images! If it was still out there, I’d be still be using the “Zack Morris“.
These “iPhone Worshippers” were waiting in line for ridiculous amounts of time last week, just to be the first ones to snag the hot new gadget. They were sitting outside Apple stores for days, braved 90 degree heat, huddled in the rain, slept on pavement, enduring mass amounts of boredom, starvation, discomfort…damn. Do these people work/go to school/have anything, like, important going on? Apparently, not.
PCWorld.com reports the craziness that was the New York City line that formed outside of the Apple Store on Fifth Ave, as New Yorkers began camping out waaaaaay, way in advance.
But none were so determined as Greg Packer, a 43-year-old wacko who made himself comfortable in a lawn chair out front of the NY location on MONDAY AT 5 A.M. Yea, you know what time the iPhone officially goes on sale? FRIDAY AT 6 P.M. Holy hell.
This guy is what you’d call a “professional line-waiter” (and highway maintenance worker on the side) who has been doing this for years. Waiting in lines for stuff. Just because. He’s not necessarily interested in the iPhone itself - it’s just the novelty of being the first one there that gets him off. Eww, sorry.
On Greg’s website, he actually had the balls to give people the opportunity to make money “donations” to him, so he could be more comfortable while he waited. Anyone who obliged to giving this guy money is an a**hole.
Valleywag has compiled, what I think, is an accurate list of all the kinds of people who will probably buy an iPhone. I certainly am not in any of these groups, and I doubt many college kids will be, considering how expensive this thing is and that ramen noodles and tap water make up most meals of the day. But rockstars, executives and snotty b*tches with daddy’s credit card will be sure to have an iPhone by the end of the month, if they haven’t bought one already.
Oh yea, and Greg Packer, 43-year-old maintenance guy and professional line-waiter.


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