Apple Absurdity: Guy Shows How Long The Iphone 6 Line Is In New York City!
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A phone with substandard "features" at that.
iPhone line sitters in NYC slept in garbage bags and got arrested
Waiting for an iPhone used to be fun. I did it once back in 2009. I got up around 3 AM — on vacation, no less — and stood outside an Apple store in Charleston, SC. I traded stories with strangers about what I was going to do with my new, white iPhone 3GS. When 8 AM came, the crowd cheered with glee. Everyone was smiling.
According to filmmaker Casey Neistat, iPhone lines don't look like that anymore. Known for viral videos such as "Bike Lanes," "Make It Count," and "The Dark Side of the iPhone 5S Lines," Neistat's latest video documents this past Friday's iPhone lines. "iPhone 6 Lines and the Chinese Mafia" is notably darker and more opinionated than Neistat's last attempt, hypothesizing that "the Chinese Mafia" is responsible for the elderly line-sitters sleeping in garbage bags across in front of Apple Stores across New York City.
The strangest moment in the video comes at 4:16, when the Apple Store opens for sale. There's no yelling and no fanfare — just a group of people quietly trudging into the store as Apple employees clap in the background. Then, these same people proceed to walk across the street and accept a cash trade for the device they just waited 12 hours for. Line-sitting is nothing new, but Neistat's latest video hits a few current trends: everything from police brutality to reports that five million new iPhones are reportedly about to be smuggled into China.
Mainland China was left out of Apple's latest iPhone rollout, after all. According to Quartz, a 128 GB iPhone 6 Plus will sell for $2,580 in China — more than twice its actual value. But Neistat's video is hardly representative of Apple stores as a whole. New York boasts one of the largest Chinese populations in the United States, and Neistat's assessment of Chinese line-sitters as "Mafia" is bizarre and crass, to say the very least. And there's no doubt that Neistat elected to keep some clips of happier line-sitters under wraps. But, the man's video nevertheless tells a visually interesting story of some of the people waiting — not for themselves, but for someone across the street, or for someone 7,000 miles away.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/20/6641673/iphone-lines-apple-stores-casey-neistat-chinese-mafia
Sheep dont mind stainding ass to face for long periods of time, for an apple.
If you don't have shit going on in your life, and can sit in a line for a few days... $1500 ain't bad.
It's cool, android has always been for people who wants underdogs to win. I can respect that. No sane person who's used both os for and extended time would say android is the better system. If we're talking jailbroken forget about it its not even close
4:30-4:40..5:45-5:50 show why cash will always be king in this city...by the way i wonder if this vid had nothing but black faces in them how many pages of negative responses would it recieve
Damn that bitch in the video was counting from a 10K rack paying people out. WTF
Yeah, Clearly the muhfuckas NOT sleeping on the sidewalk in garbage bags for days for some shit that will be available everywhere in two weeks are the insane ones lol
Some of y'all muhfuckas will say anything man
What are you nuts?
First off REAL Apple phones don't
work on China's Cell Phone Network.
Second, They MADE in China to begin with
Lastly, these poor saps are line waiters for
the Chinese Mob. Did you see the hundreds? These phones will be resold for a tremendous mark up HERE.
Home boy was speaking Mandarin to them and I'm sure they understood the basics
cause I'm positive they speak Cantonese (The language of poor Chinese people)
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You clearly are clueless if u believe this phone will be available everywhere in two weeks.
They can unlock the iPhones in China and just swap in Chinese SIM cards from local carriers.
Certain (older) model iPhones already work in China without jailbreaking.
Lastly, if the phones are MADE in China..... What makes you think they DON'T have the 'know how' / technology to unlock & use them over there?
You think with all the mathematicians & computer programmers living in China that the USA is the only place on the planet to find someone who can unlock an iPhone?
Let that marinate for a sec.
It ain't 'amateur hour' in Beijing.
Not a single fuck is given in China about how REAL the 'cell phone network' is... as long as the iPhone someone is holding in their hands actually WORKS.
If the phone works... They will use whatever (compatible) SIM card / carrier network is available.
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fucking crazy
dude sounds butthurt
those people are crazy for standing in a line like that for a device you could get at your local carrier store or walmart.
my question is what store is this at that they would have the inventory to accommodate that many people
Apples flagship store in nyc 767 5th ave
They can unlock the iPhones in China and just swap in Chinese SIM cards from local carriers.
Certain (older) model iPhones already work in China without jailbreaking.
Lastly, if the phones are MADE in China..... What makes you think they DON'T have the 'know how' / technology to unlock & use them over there?
You think with all the mathematicians & computer programmers living in China that the USA is the only place on the planet to find someone who can unlock an iPhone?
Let that marinate for a sec.
It ain't 'amateur hour' in Beijing.
Not a single fuck is given in China about how REAL the 'cell phone network' is... as long as the iPhone someone is holding in their hands actually WORKS.
If the phone works... They will use whatever (compatible) SIM card / carrier network is available.
You missed my point....
I said that cause they ain't BUYING them here to ship
em back to china...Hahahah
of course they make em there to use them.
No, I got your point.
YOU are missing the point.
These new iPhones are made in China. But the devices are not yet 'approved' by the Chinese govt. (So Apple has not announced a specific date that they will 'officially' go on sale in China)
So people in China.... CANNOT buy them anywhere inside China.
They have to import / smuggle them.
So they ARE buying them here, in the USA to ship them back to China.
But you still seem to think that the majority of reselling is mostly happening HERE in the USA... even tho folks are getting 'top dollar' overseas, in China.
I got the 6, I thought the 6+ was too big, I don't like the idea of having a mini-IPAD for a phone,,, Too me it just a phone, nothing special lol,
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