“You’re invited to the biggest Apple store grand opening in 18 months: the Fifth Avenue store in New York City this coming Friday. General Motors Plaza will be home for an overnight camp-out on Thursday night, a busy Friday socializing with each other and curious passersby, and then the count-down to the exciting 6pm entrance into the new store. Bring your laptop, camcorder and digital camera to blog, podcast, iChat, post photos, exchange e-mail, listen to iTunes and surf the Web. I expect people will attend from all around the country, as well as from the metro NYC area. Plan to be among them,” ifoAppleStore writes.
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I’m a Mac fan, but I’ve never stood in line overnight for an Apple Store opening. That’s just sad.
I’ll see everyone there, I am already at the plaza lighting the candles for this vigil!!!
That’s just sad.
Agreed. GET A LIFE, people!
Maybe everyone in line can IM each-other. Doesn’t anyone TALK anymore?
Anyway I’m not that impressed with the Apple Store layouts. Too UFO-like, and hardly worth camping out for.
Been there, done that, when boyfriend worked for Apple (later forced out by a “”family values” store manager for being gay). It’s too much hype and crowds for a free t-shirt. Too many new employees not having a clue about the products. Yea, a few big store openings still offer the “grab bag” at a reduced price, but most of those end up on Ebay because Mac fans already have the stuff inside.
— Warning: Rant Approaching! —
I, now, only buy the Macs and a few other select Apple products online. The rest are over-priced and I’d never go into an Apple store again after the troubles my boyfriend and I went through, the financial problems from his forced dismissal and Apple’s inaction about it. The only reason I buy anything Apple is that there is no other viable choice for my new graphics business, otherwise I wouldn’t.
Our neighbor has had a similar problem with Apple’s hiring/firing practices, and has offered the idea of starting a website to support and console those of us that have been wronged by Apple. They are NOT the God you think they are. Granted, no one is perfect, but they are unwilling to acknowledge or repair any damage they inadvertently cause. As with all corporate juggernauts, they are willing and able to exploit the weak to gain a few bucks.
Why would anyone camp overnight then wait all day to be first into yet another computer store? You’d have to be nuts. Crazy. Insane. Moronic. It’s the “First Post!” mentality of those like-minded idiots, who at least don’t need a concrete sidewalk and muggers to obtain their Apple religious high.
Join the army or go bowling or something.
If you think it’s about being first to get a look inside the new store..then you’re missing the point of why people go to these things.
“Mac users to converge on NYC”
I pictured this George Romero-style. Frothy-mouthed, arms flailing, dead eyed Mac zombies with Apple logos burned into foreheads branding style converging upon an unsuspecting Fifth Avenue. The National Guard is on alert.
“M-U-S-T G-E-T F-R-E-E S-H-I-R-T argggghhh. . . . and a Half Caf Half Decaf Double Latte to go please?”
To I Have A Life: Or bowl for the army? Sounds safer.
Mike Buonarroti “later forced out by a “”family values” store manager for being gay”
Mike, this is unheard of. Company rules (and legal) are that you cannot discriminate employees because of sex or sex orientations.
In our team two colleagues different sexual orientation (one gay, one lesbian). It is known and they cannot be fired of forced out because of that.
Not saying what you say is not true but simply it is not legal and I suggest you find a layer and sue: it’s a hands down win.
Peace
I can maybe understand people waiting in line for an hour if they live out in Podunk and have never had any kind of local Apple presence. Overnight, I don’t think so.
Put down your geek toys and get a GF/BF and go DO something.
To Mike Buonarroti: Maybe Apple store manager did not feel secure with his back turned to your boyfriend?
MW: theory. As in: it’s just a theory.
I don’t think the comparison is with the ‘first post’ loonies is fair. They’re beyond help.
There are certain advantages in these all-night vigils
1. There’s no better way of making new friends than staying up all night with a lot of other people.
2. It usually creates publicity for the store and Apple, and that can’t be bad.
3. Controlled and voluntary sleep deprivation is an established therapy against depression.
4. Then there are the goodies at the end, but they’re not so important.
Nemo,
you’re beneath contempt.
Nemo:
You weren’t afraid of the rainbow striped Apple logo, were you?
Hey Mike don’t you know that:
“One bad apple don’t spoil the whole bunch, girl!”
Ooooooo!
Ampar: Apparently Steve Jobs did not like the association and cut the rainbow in favor of monotone logo. Good riddance.
An all night party with creative people? I see glow sticks, strobe lights, and dance beats in my future.
…or at the very least it will be “The Blogger’s Burning Man”.
Either way, how is this any more a waste of time than going to a concert, a sports event, or an all-night party?
Tedious:
Or even worse, a movie.
Charko said: “2. It usually creates publicity for the store and Apple, and that can’t be bad.”
But it’s the wrong kind of publicity. Look at the contempt created by those bozos who waited day and night for Windows 95 or 98, or whatever it was that the M$ publicity machine rolled out, among people who cared not a whit for M$’s Second Coming. Those idiots were up all night, too. But Apple, more than M$ does, needs all the otherwise potential customers it can get, bu who now will only laugh or cringe.
It’s good publicity only for those without foreheads. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together would treat them with contempt and avoid the store and Macs because these lemmings are seen by too many as typical Mac users.
I avoid the official Apple-run stores for the same reason, having been in one once. It was like an Apple church, with the customers as well as the employees being genuflecting priests.
Sexless,
Do you have proof of that? Or is that guessing? Is there a credible link?
Just asking.
Mike Buonarroti, you are a liar. And you gross me out.
The opening of Apple Stores are simply a “one time” event.
Once 300 or so are open on the planet, much of this “fun” will be gone.
So it makes plenty of sense to stand/camp for a place in line. It’s MUCH more than getting into a store, it’s all about being part of the greatest revolution of our time.
100 years out, people will consider Macs and iPods the “Lightbulb” of the past…
OS11
I remember people waiting for the midnight launch of Windows 95.
That was sad.
Because it will be an almost 24-hour event, the press will eat it up. I hope there’s more for them to see than a bunch of people standing in a single-file line. I hope that it’s a huge block party with everyone showing off what they DO with their Macs (Music, visual art).
Do you have proof of that? Or is that guessing? Is there a credible link?
What, are we insecure?
Whether or not it was SJ’s intended effect, ditching the rainbow Apple (and thus the rainbow’s associations) is a very good thing.
Being able to put an Apple logo sticker on something, and not face retributions (and questioning of one’s sexuality) is a very good thing.
What if the Mac OS X logo was a black X on a white circle on a fire-red rectangle? Wouldn’t that draw uneasy comparisons to socialist hate?
Symbolism is everything.