![]() Make fun if you can, but I couldn't because they were part of something that I wasn't today. Unless required by law, repairs made by Independent Repair Providers. To learn more, please visit the Self Service Repair page. Our Specialists will answer your questions and get you set up. If you are experienced with the complexities of repairing electronic devices, Self Service Repair provides you with access to genuine Apple parts, tools, and repair manuals to perform your own out-of-warranty repair. You could not convince the last in line they weren't going to get an iPhone, or the first that it would not be worth the $500 plus contract. Visit the Apple Store to shop for iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch, iPad and more. They were smiling, laughing, even those that had been there all night and really could have used a bath. No matter how hard I tried to make fun of the people in line, it just didn't work. Yeah, people like me, who weren't in line, not them. Surely, some of those waiting will go home disappointed. Estimates from those in line ranged from 500 to 5000 phones, but if you asked anyone who worked in store they wold tell you they had no idea how many iPhones they had, or that they had no iPhones, or both. Considering that each customer can buy two iPhones, the store better have at least two hundred. AdvertisementĮnlarge / Second HundredThe line went around the block and was looking to go around another side when I left. Not surprisingly, there were a good number of people waiting in line for someone else. Of those buying for themselves, almost everyone I spoke with was already an AT&T customer. The crowd itself was what you might expect at an Apple Store, mostly white, lots of black t-shirts, not too many goatees though, and only a smattering of berets. Whether it's a gay pride parade, or an anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-whatever protest, somebody always shows up in costumes. Right after the initial group of tents came the typical San Franciscans. The guy standing on the left was just a nerd. The guy sitting in the back wore some kind of t-shirt about a geek ghetto squad. One can only hope no scrawny employee tries to enforce the "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy. The guy sitting in front has tattoos all over his chest and arms, and he could probably crush my head in his hands like a beer can. ![]() Further Reading iPhone in depth: The Ars reviewThe first people in line showed up at 10:00 AM yesterday. ![]()
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