Shortly after 2 p.m., Scott noticed several people already in line outside the Apple store on Boylston Street for tomorrow's release of the iPhone Somedamnnumberorletter, which goes on sale tomorrow - including one person who brought her own reclining seat.
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haha what is that
By SC from JP
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 3:35pm
It looks like she literally took a seat out of a minivan.
Absolutely!
By Gary C
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 4:00pm
Probably a Toyota Sienna, if my guess is right. (It's actually kind of a good idea, except when the doors open and she has to lug that along with her.)
Even though traffic is at a standstill
By Snuggles
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 5:07pm
she's buckled up.
Seat out of minivan for long
By Rob
Fri, 11/03/2017 - 9:49am
Seat out of minivan for long wait (using seatbelt): Simple, practical, unpretentious, comfortable, safe - I award 10 points to Hufflepuff!
Doing all that to buy an iPhone? -5 points for bad judgment.
Apple is a cult
By anon
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 4:52pm
#sad , as DJT would tweet.
Right?
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 6:13pm
Damn Apple and their enabling people to have the world's knowledge at their fingertips!
Sure
By Waquiot
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 8:24pm
If you discount that google is also offering the same thing, just without the cultish hype.
Well...
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 8:35pm
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
It's like what the Americans used to say about the Japanese
By Waquiot
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 8:39pm
We come up with the idea; they make it better.
The Android company was founded in 2003.
By anon
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 11:18pm
Google bought Android in 2005. The first iphone was released in 2007.
Sure, but the first android
By anon
Fri, 11/03/2017 - 7:09am
Sure, but the first android phone was released in 2008 and looked like a Nokia phone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream
And the Android prototypes looked like Blackberries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream#/media/Fil...
The notion of having a touchscreen wasn't even on Android's radar until the iPhone was announced. And after the announcement, it was all hands on deck to support touchscreens, which is now the dominant paradigm in Android phones.
And then suddenly Samsung's
By Steeve
Fri, 11/03/2017 - 9:26am
And then suddenly Samsung's first Android offering looked remarkably like the iPhone.
Let's not pretend that the first huge wave of smartphones (post-niche brands like the Palm Treo, et al.) wouldn't have looked like BlackBerrys for years if it weren't for the iPhone. I mean, even BlackBerry capitulated a bit and released the awful BlackBerry Storm at the beginning of 2009, which was most known for getting pocket dust under the screen.
The first smartphone
By mangycougar
Fri, 11/03/2017 - 10:08am
Apple has got nothing on this:
https://www.androidauthority.com/ibm-simon-birthda...
Yeah. Sure
By Jeeve Staubs
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 9:28pm
Google isn't offering the same thing. Their phone platform is completely inferior.
Still, I ain't standing in line and/or paying a grand for a damn phone. The hell with that noise.
I don't understand the Google
By RoseMai
Fri, 11/03/2017 - 9:23am
I don't understand the Google vs. Apple fight. Most smartphones now are amazingly similar, with little differences in their OS. It comes down to preference.
That said, all I want in a smartphone is a removable battery, and an aux port. Shockingly hard to find these days.
They've already accomplished that with
By roadman
Fri, 11/03/2017 - 2:22pm
earlier versions of the iPhone. Like Microsoft's recent upgrades of Windows and Office, this is just encouraging people to get rid of perfectly functioning devices and software and spend money "upgrading" for little legitimate reason.
And this "I gotta stand in line all night to get a phone that is being mass produced" mentality is just another example of how consumerism is slowly eroding society.
I have an iPhone 5C. Works perfectly fine, and it has a headphone jack. And keeping it until it won't work is also better for then environment instead of getting a new phone every six months or so
Goes to what I always say
By Westie
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 7:27pm
My parents stormed the beaches at Normandy. My children stormed the Apple Store.
Sounds like progress.
By Kinopio
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 10:53pm
Sounds like progress.
hmm
By anonn
Fri, 11/03/2017 - 10:54am
Always maintained that Apple is a cult. People would pay anything with the Apple logo on it.
Would it be considered racist
By tofu
Fri, 11/03/2017 - 11:35am
Would it be considered racist to guess that these people are in line perhaps to resell the phone in another country?
Yes
By Irma la Douce
Fri, 11/03/2017 - 12:08pm
n\t
No.
By Brian Riccio
Sat, 11/04/2017 - 10:47am
Absolutely not.
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