“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.
“I remember people waiting for the midnight launch of Windows 95.
That was sad.”
Actually, that’s hysterical.
I’m going to wait in line for Dunkin Doughnuts new Fried Nutmeg Dough Explosion! <Rob Glaser’s radar perks up>
Tom Strong and Nemo…
The two of you are Homophobes. Pure and simple.
I’m a hetro male, married 25 years to a wonderful woman, recently went independent politically. Before that I was republican. I tell you this because I want you to understand that your comments are disgusting to someone in the CENTER of the political spectrum.
I don’t advocate or want to be a part of Mike’s lifestyle, but he’s an american citizen with the same rights under the constitution as I have.
The fact that those rights are not being supported by our government right now is just a testament that it takes time for our country to change. Mostly because the rest of us have to wait for people like the two of you to die.
It took a hundred years after black liberation from slavery for the civil rights movement to gain a foothold. Hopefully it won’t take that long for civil rights for people of differing sexual preference to gain their independence.
Gay men and women are nothing to fear. You two are sick, peverted individuals. You’re this generation’s equivalent of the hooded klansman. I just hope and pray that your teenagers and still have time to grow up. God help us if you’re voting adults.
MDN word is “when” as in… when will they ever learn.
Mike’s loverboy was a pain in the A$$ and that’s why he was fired.
If you go to the Apple Store in Costa Mesa that morning I’m sure the line will be shorter, and they sell the same stuff.
The Fifth Avenue grand opening does sound like fun though.
Or, you can go to the Comp USA store, ask them for a FireWire cable, and then look at them funny as they tell you “we don’t have those but we do have USB cables.”
Yes, that happened.
I can get USB cables at Rite Aid.
Dear
‘name not given because I’m tired of left wing flam’
I agree with you.
Mac Usenet:
http://www.macusenet.com/archive/index-t-7161.html
I would classify this as a persistent urban legend. As far as I can see,
the rainbow Apple logo was designed at least a year before the rainbow flag
was created in 1978. It is conceivable that the rainbow had already become
a gay pride symbol in the San Francisco area and Gilbert Baker was just
tapping an existent meme, but I’d like to see some evidence on that before
making that assumption. At least it’s clear that Apple chose not to change
its logo after the rainbow flag was adopted by the gay community at large.
http://www.syncmag.com/article2/0,1895,1887818,00.asp
I Invented … the Apple Logo
“There were many people who said Apple would go bankrupt if they went ahead with the logo,” says Rob Janoff, the graphic designer credited with thinking up the world-famous emblem. Janoff, 57, first met Jobs while working at Palo Alto, Calif.-based public relations agency Regis McKenna. It was his task to help the sandal-wearing CEO-a good friend of Janoff’s boss-market a makeshift wooden box stuffed with wires, an early prototype of the Apple II. “For inspiration, the first thing I did was go to the supermarket, buy a bag of apples and slice them up. I just stared at the wedges for hours,” recalls Janoff. The fruit of his labor: a simple 2-D monochromatic apple, with a healthy bite taken from the right side. Jobs loved the conceit-only he suggested it be more colorful. Janoff’s boss disagreed, insisting the logo be made all black to save on printing costs. “But Jobs was resolute, arguing that color was the key to humanizing the company,” says Janoff. “So I just put colors where I thought they should be, not even thinking about a prism.” What thanks did Janoff, now the owner of his own Chicago-based graphic design firm, get for all his hard work? “Not even a holiday card.”
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
In the book, Zeroes and Ones, author Sadie Plant speculates that the rainbow Apple logo with a bite taken out of it was a homage to Turing. This seems to be an urban legend as the Apple logo was designed in 1976, two years before Gilbert Baker’s rainbow pride flag.
Acts of volition:
http://actsofvolition.com/archives/2004/march/logospeculation
Unfortunate? Apple’s coloured logo is not even in the right order of this unfortunate rainbow. Seems to me people are focusing too hard on what the gay community is doing. But that’s another issue.
nobowzone: Insecure? Possibly. But not about symbolism. I was just commenting to Sexless’ thread that smelled like an urban legend.
And, to that I add, thank you I Have A Life. That was a nice collection of links and quotes. Reason prevails.
Symbolism is powerful. But just like political correctness, it can be taken too far.
<This thread is certified 100% sarcasm free.>
hm, as always, politics and personal crap get mixed in with mac-related news.
to everyone making gay jokes, just stfu. it’s rude, it has nothing to do with apple stores, and it just makes you sound like some moron high school student, instead of “the smarter, more creative” people that supposedly use macs.
go back to the cafeteria – stop using the school library computers to make posts here.
name not given:
You two are sick, peverted individuals.
You want sick and perversion? Name one other species where members of the same gender attempt to have sex with each-other. Where in nature do two males or two females couple and mate?
None of us can choose our race, and none of us should be forced to choose our religion. But the notion that we have some sort of “right” or “freedom” to choose our sexual orientation is absurd. Like your race, your sex is what you’re born with. Deal with it. There’s no room in this world for “alternative” perverts.
@ no joke
“Name one other species”
ok dolphins.
There are others but you asked for one.
For the record I’m straight and have never bothered posting to these boards before but the sheer stupidity of the homophobic fuckwits beggers belief and deserved a simple answer for a simple mind.
Bigoted morons like yourself are the real poison in modern society.
i’m more man than you’ll ever be & more woman than you’ll ever get.
no joke: It was a pretty easy Google search:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0722_040722_gayanimal.html
“But, actually, some same-sex birds do do it. So do beetles, sheep, fruit bats, dolphins, and orangutans. Zoologists are discovering that homosexual and bisexual activity is not unknown within the animal kingdom.”
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
“i’m more man than you’ll ever be & more woman than you’ll ever get.”
We are witnessing the Nietzschean superhuman here. Wow. Too bad you cannot reproduce.
MW: believe. No comment.