iPhone 3G: The Waiting Game: Part II: Redux
By Paul Miller 
posted July 12th 2008 2:16PM
posted July 12th 2008 2:16PM
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posted July 12th 2008 2:16PM
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It's the in-store activation people. Sell them the phone and people will be out in 30 minutes.
Isn't "..:Part II: Redux" redundant?...
There are also two too many colons in that headline.
funny you should mention colons...
...Oh THAT kind of colon! Man, I just went to the bathroom for no reason!
Here in southern california I live by the mission viejo mall and there frekin a bunch of down syndrom babies that work at the apple store they have a line of over 200 people and it gose very very slow about 5 minutes a person. To maney old people .
Too many spelling mistakes!
thank god for edgukashun.
Everyone knows that the store at Fashion Island is way better anyway.
if 3 spelling mistakes is to much for you Shut your computer off and get off the Internet
welcome To the social
Wow. You're really unplesant.
seriously dude,that's at least five mistakes, not counting grammar mistakes, and I didn't even bother to go back and really count... dolt.
Mission viejo has every model except the 16 G Black
I just called
fashion island has all iphones 4-5 hour wait
same wait time for mission
Ahem....its one thing to do a casual post with no puctuation, but its another to ramble on and offer us blatant spelling mistakes.
Original Post:
Here in southern california I live by the mission viejo mall and there frekin a bunch of down syndrom babies that work at the apple store they have a line of over 200 people and it gose very very slow about 5 minutes a person. To maney old people .
Spelling Mistakes:
california should be California
frekin should be freakin
apple should be Apple
syndrom should be syndrome
gose should be goes
To should be Too
maney should be many
and then you get:
Here in southern California I live by the mission viejo mall and there freakin a bunch of down syndrome babies that work at the Apple store they have a line of over 200 people and it goes very very slow about 5 minutes a person. Too many old people .
Grammatical Mistakes:
add a comma after California
add "are" between 'there' and freakin'
add a period after store and make 'they' capitalized
add a semicolon after slow
'Too many old people .' isn't even a sentence.
Huked on fonics wurked fur mi!!
Don't forget to capitalize "Mission Viejo Mall" and "Down syndrome"
And also, make up your mind... Is the problem cause by too many Down syndrome babies, or too many old people?
How about this guy not making offensive comments about people who are mentally challenged.
The WHO ICD, or correct name for Down Syndrome is Down's Syndrome.
It is named after John Langdon Down, the British doctor who described the syndrome in 1866.
The irony is that he's making fun of people that are mentally challenged because of genetics while he is mentally challenged because of lack of education/paying attention in school.
Do not make fun of people with Down Syndrome,i have an adopted sister with down syndrome and she is the most sweetest person and happens to be brilliant at computers and anything technical.It looks like you are the one with the brain problem,you can't even spell!
Apple Somerset (Troy, MI) - Been in line for two hours. The wait has been pretty consistent. Out of black 16GB.
I always feel out of place in that mall. Too high class.
I went to Apple Somerset this morning at 7:15 they opened at 8:00 and I had an activated phone by 8:30. The people said it was a pain doing the activations.
They have always been expeditious and polite whenever I have been there.
Glad i got mine yesterday. I wonder how many iphones each apple store got and if they will run out this weekend?
Wait'll you see what we're going to do when / if the Zunephone ever launches! Looking forward to the Microgadget / Engadgetsoft comments everyone.
Oakridge Mall in San Jose had line almost out the door ~150 people by opening time. All iphones in stock with large stacks inside the store and more stock in the backroom.
Valley Fair is a mess too. I tried again this morning and the line was just as bad as yesterday. Was going to stand in it but it was roped off to new people at the time. this is madness!
I was going to hit the out of the way los gatos apple store but they were sold out of everything last night per the inventory tracker.
I hate standing in lines, and love having the fed ex guy do all the work for me.
I arrived at the Charlotte, NC Apple store at 7:30 this morning. There were already about 40 people in line. By the time they opened at 9, there were about 200-250. Instead of making people wait, serving one by one, they scheduled appointments for everyone in time blocks. I was given the 11-12 time block (of course I hopped in the appointment line at 10:40 and was in by 10:50). About an hour and a half of actual waiting verses standing in line that whole time wasn't too bad. The young lady that assisted me once inside said there were more than enough phones to meet demand for the day.
The Charlotte store has always been good to me. Maybe they know that behind my mild-mannered self stands the all-powerful super blogger Murphy Mac.
apple store victoria gardens, Rancho cucamonga CA. last night 5 hours from get in line to leaving with a phone
I have to say, I was a lucky one. In Cincinnati at the Apple store, I arrived at 6:30am and was out with my phone by 8:15am on Friday. Not bad and I have to say, worth the wait. With Exchange email, GPS and iPod, I am officially a one gadget geek. Hope the battery hold up better than it did yesterday after a full charge.
Look for the out of the way AT&T stores. I wandered in to one this morning in Waltham, MA (@ 470 Winter Street I believe) around 10:30am and got my 16 gb white 3G-er with NO WAIT. Turned out to be their last 16gb one, but they said they'd have more on Monday...
The Burlington Mall Apple store had a very steady 25-30 person line as of 2pm today...
The Columbia, MD Apple store is out as of Saturday at around 2PM. The AT&T stores in the the same mall ran out yesterday.
The cool thing is the AT&T store started doing a reservation/pre-purchase system when they ran out of stock yesterday. As soon as they get more, you get a phone call and have 72 hours to pick it up.
Anyone having GPS issues? I cant get it to work and Location Service is turned on.
O and the home button tilted. it presses upward and doesnt press and a whole (much like the MacBook Pro power button issue where it presses tilted). Compared it to 1st gen but havent compared it to other 3G
Oklahoma City: 150+ lined up at the Apple store when the doors to the mall opened at 8:00 they said they would run out with about 20 peps left in line. I got mine!!!!
Of course we'll call you...
short hills= 1 hour
I'm just waiting a week like I did last year, and just walking it and getting it done in 15 minutes.
20+ people waiting in the rain at The Summit Apple Store in Birmingham AL. Looks like one of the glass doors was broken since yesterday afternoon. There is a large piece of plywood covering the right side of the entrance. Disgruntled Apple fiend?
I went to the store in Durham last night around 7pm. Shortly after I got there, they started discouraging anyone else from getting in line because it was 4+ hours long and they wanted to be out of there by midnight. I walked out of the store at 11:30 with a new iPhone and they still had "plenty" in stock. I didn't see any vouchers being handed out, but then again I wasn't paying attention to what was going on behind me. There were only about 15-20 people behind me in line when I bought the phone at 11:30.
I went to ATT store this morning and there was 30 people outside and about 10 people in-store. I didn't want to wait and went back few hours later and they told me it's sold out. Next shipment will be on Monday and they told me I don't have to be on line on Monday. I'll just wait.
This wll be my first iphone. I really don't like att but I'll give it a try this time.
Last night there was about 250+ ppl at crabtreevalley mall , NC. So i went home and tonight im going to see if there is anymore line because i want one sooo bad!
Oklahoma City: Apple store sold out this morning before noon, about 150 in line, I would say 90% in the line got the phone. I got mine!
Stock situation fine at most Apple stores around the UK, o2 stores said to be getting shipment at 1pm today, reservations possible. Queues outside Apple stores though, and slow moving ones at that.
Kenosha AT&T is completely sold out. The rep I spoke with had sold 13 iphone on back order and there were 10 other reps so I won't be getting a phone anytime soon.
Went to an AT&T store yesterday. They sold out so I had them reserve me a 16GB black unit when it comes into the store.
I went to the Apple store to get a case for my phone I bought yesterday and found out that if you want to get anything, you had to wait in line. If you were doing a repair or wanted to get a computer you'd have to wait in the line. The manager had a take it or leave it attitude. Unfortunately, most fanboys will gladly take it, but it just sounds like bad business sense to prevent all other purchases (not to mention customer bad will by not doing repairs).
I went into the Huntsville, AL Bridge Street Apple Store at around 10:30 this morning and there was some old guy at the door in a suit being a real jerk to people with this same attitude. I just wanted a case and had to wait in line also. Luckily, a nicer girl in an Apple t-shirt helped me get to their one employee who was helping non-iPhone customers.