Comments on: Midnight serenity for New York's 'iPhone hippies'

A pack of activists is still the entirety of the line for the iPhone 3G at New York's Fifth Avenue store, waiting for the device to go on sale while supporting sustainable agriculture in the first place.

[Constable Odo]

I agree, some of the commenters on Engadget are extremely nasty calling these activists worse than fools. If someone has their own opinion, these people will attack you personally. I guess they must be cowards, name calling people behind their back and in complete anonymity. And they're telling these activists they should get themselves a life.

I think anyone who has time to wait in line and have some fun isn't causing anyone any harm. I think they have a lot of fortitude to be hanging out on the streets of Manhattan for a week. I hope they get their record.

[blabtech.blogspot.com]

I don't see the need for nasty comments, People just are willing to camp out for the product.

[chlimouj]

Seriously, as much as everyone wants to argue that these people have the right to do what they're doing and they're not harming anyone, you gotta admit it's a pretty stupid to care so deeply about. I mean, how empty must their lives be that they put so much stock into a consumer electronic? There was a time when people did sit-ins for peace, for political change, or just to draw attention to a particular humanitarian cause... but not these people. That's not the kind of "fortitude" they have. Instead, they're using a week of their lives that they will never get back... for what? To buy something that anybody can buy on Ebay 24 hours after they all go home? Yes, they have the right to do it... they also have the right to stab themselves in the eye. That doesn't mean they SHOULD. I hope from now on Apple releases everything in the dead of winter. At least that way we'll weed out the zealous "leaders" of this group and cleanse the gene pool just a tiny bit.

[thedreaming]

People queuing up to buy an iphone isn't new and it isn't news, but there's nothing new to report, so they do a fluff piece and the pray things get hoping by Friday. Make fun of the people that lined up early if it makes you feel better, but so long as they aren't breaking the law and aren't hurting anyone, does it really matter? Is your life so disrupted by hearing on the news about some people lining up to buy a phone?

[sanenazok]

Stop encouraging them.

The reason why they're camping out is not for the new phone but because you keep covering them, especially by visiting them at midnight. I could care less for "sustainable" whatever (except for goat cheese, we better NOT run out of that!) but they can do whatever they want with their apparently low-value time. That does not mean that their attempt is news or should be covered extensively.

[Marcia Boone]

I have a 10am One to One appointment at my Apple Store. I think I may get the white one. All my files are ready to download to iPhone so I am prepared. I look forward to a phone that has everything I need. I regret it was not released before my recent trip. GPS would have been interesting to use as I walked to various venues in NYC.

[sanenazok]

Also, the Guinness world record attempt is typical america-centrist view of the world.

During last winter's snow storm in China, many people waited for more than week for their train tickets. See: http://www.chinatravelguide.com/ctgwiki/2008_China_Snowstorm

Alternatively, people wait for basic necessities all over the world for weeks on end. A week waiting for a new phone is NOT record worthy.

[vasudevan_n2001]

obviously it is a stupid thing and people mustn't hype-up a commodity to the extent of seeming to wait one whole week outside some shop. get a life is the apt comment for such people. and it just does not become their business alone. what a few do ultimately affects an entire society and in today's news starved world where news hawkstry desperately to create news such additional efforts to spoil the artmosphere isn't called for. instead, these apple lovers should have got their respect if they were waiting for 'pest free apples' and fighting for a clean green world! ...vasu from india.

[vasudevan_n2001]

obviously it is a dumb thing and people mustn't hype-up a commodity to the extent of seeming to wait one whole week outside some shop. 'get a life' is the apt comment for such people. and it just does not become their business alone. what a few do ultimately affects an entire society and in today's news starved world where news hawkstry desperately to create news such additional efforts to spoil the artmosphere isn't called for. instead, these apple lovers should have got their respect if they were waiting for 'pest free apples' and fighting for a clean green world! ...vasu from india.