“Outside the new Apple Store in Sydney, a handful of people have already started to queue for the official opening at 5pm tomorrow night,” Chloe Lake reports for NEWS.com.au.
“Judging by their positions in the queue, Rochelle Quantock and Moyzsckya Belle are Apple’s two biggest fans in Australia,” Lake reports. “Ms Quantock left Melbourne at 4am this morning to take the first position in the queue. Her husband and two daughters, aged 1 and 3, are all Apple fans as well, she said.”
“‘I didn’t even check in to the hotel,’ she said, adding that her husband would share the first position with her in shifts,” Lake reports.
“The second person in line after Ms Quantock was Moyzsckya Belle, an inventor from Brisbane,” Lake reports. “He flew in from Brisbane only to find the first position had already been taken when he arrived outside the store at 8:25am.”
Lake reports, “Mr Belle said he owned every version of iPod ever released by Apple, and he and his wife had almost 10 Mac computers between them.”
Full article here.
“almost 10″… as in ‘nine’?
Ya, that’s a bit of an odd statement: most people can count to 10 exactly
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I almost found $10 once.
aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi
I suppose some of them could be in pieces?
http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2008/technology/sydney-apple-store/index.html
An audio interview with Ron Johnson of Apple fame with pictures. Somewhat more interesting than the Murdoch press article quoted above.
that is sick. as much as i am an apple fanboy it’s only a store, for christs sake. get a life people. (and how can an 1 year old be a fan of something?)
” . . . he and his wife had almost 10 Mac computers between them.”
Nine Performas and an eMate.
these guys are hardcore..awesome…they will have a blast
This article is a gem!
If “Ms Quantock” has a husband, why didn’t Chloe Lake, the author of this article, call her Mrs Quantock?
And “every version of iPod ever released by Apple”. Do they know something i don’t? Are there any other companies that make iPods, besides Apple?
I’d agree, this article is written in an odd way!
One is borrowed?
Owned by their company?
It’s nice that people are willing to “show the love”, but … really! … what’s the point? Are they handing out collector iPods or something? Surely more than ‘collector T-Shirts’! OK, I’ll admit to standing in one of these lines. For all of two hours, or so. It was certainly “worth it”, as I won nearly $2,000 worth of ‘door prize’. But my goal was to buy a G3 iPod – which I still use, thank you.
A G3 iPod? an iPod with a G3 processor?
You mean a 3rd generation iPod?
I haven’t read the article yet, but “Ms” is acceptable usage for both married and unmarried women. Feminists argued that “Mr” didn’t designate a married status for men, so women should have something similar to use if they chose, so “Ms” was born.
Ms-take, naming conventions vary depending on culture and politics. My wife is seldom referred to as “Mrs Meyer”, but usually as “Ms Horton”. My ex-wife, OTOH, is quite happy to be called “Mrs King”. But, she is a secretary, not a playwright, and has no “public life” to maintain.
Have you ever considered the paternalistic silliness of a woman taking a man’s name and the children taking their “father’s”? When a child is born, the only thing known about that child – before a blood test confirms paternity, a blood test not available a quarter of a century ago – would be who the mother was. As recently as when my children were born, even a blood test could only confirm that maybe three out of four men were NOT the father. We men have been sperm donors, rather than the heads of households, for the hundreds (thousands?) of years of this tradition. Isn’t it about time we grew up, recognized the ‘truth’, and shared the pride of lineage? Or, even, turned it over to its real owners?
Good catch.
Typo.
Meant to type 3G. A third generation (3G) iPod.
Thanks.
Why can’t we edit these things?
Never mind, it took long enough to get “ownership”.
Here’s to hoping they have strong locks and reinforced walls and flooring on that building…cuz this new client base is completely decended from convicts!!
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“completely decended from convicts!!”
But it’s only condescending if you drag them into the basement.
Go Ralph from Berlin! If it was some new product launch I could understand this type of behaviour. But it’s a store, just a bloody store.
Moyzsckya Belle is so not a guy’s name. He’s probably a 6′ 3″ bearded dude.
Oh, and just to set the record straight:
2002 Prison Population: Aus – 115 per 100,000 people.
2002 Prison Population: USA – 701 per 100,000 people.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r234.pdf
BUT, the important question is “do they have some shrimp on the barbie?”
@Aussies Rock,
The difference isn’t due to a culture of imprisonment here in the U.S., we just have very violent people here (for many, many reasons). It certainly isn’t something we are proud of, but until parents start being parents and raising kids right and we start paying teachers better and recognizing how important they are in our society, nothing will change.
“(and how can an 1 year old be a fan of something?)”
You just made SpongeBob cry.
Cubert. I have started studying this. Where did it begin? The USA of the WW2 era was amazing. In 2008 there are 2.2m in jail. That’s one in every 140 people!!
How did the culture disintegrate so quickly?
It isn’t a culture of imprisonment, the US justice system is the most lax I’ve seen in any modern nation. If the system were really working there’d be many many more incarcerated!!
The US has so much going for it, the incredible natural resources, the ‘can do’ attitude and the wild patriotism.
It’s odd.
“Until we start paying teachers better and recognizing how important they are in our society”
Until we have school vouchers and supervised corporal punishment in ‘non- union’ schools, we’ll never stop the downward spiral.
Yes, definitely pay them lots more, ‘IF’ they can pass all the teacher tests and prove that they can teach.
Why would anyone queue up for days at an Apple store opening? I’m sure the many that did so at each and every store opening in the US for the last several years know why. Firstly there is that whole Mac love in they experience swapping stories for 2 days until the doors open. Then there is the whole “I was the first one ever in the first Apple store in Oz-and I got an autographed T-shirt to prove it” story that will do the round at Mac user groups for years to come. Mostly likely though its just Aussies finally getting a taste of what the Yanks have had for years – real customer service. Even I would line up round the block thrice for that.
I have from a good source that Moyzschya Belle has 10 Apple Computers – none less than 2 years old… (want the list?) no mini-Macs either
and he does have every model of iPod produced – even the red and U2 editions.
And yes that is his real name…
We do not put shrimp on the barbie – we put prawns…
phuquetards…
Why sit out for an opening – who knows BUT it sure was fun!!!
but what would I know
mdn = would