Congratulations to Sydney's first iPhone 11 owner. Standing ovation well-deserved.

https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-11-and-11-pro-launch-apple-fanatics-line-up-around-the-globe/

There's even a video with everyone cheering: https://twitter.com/dvanboom/status/1174806970341085184

New York:



Let's give it up for Muhannad Al Nadaf and Ryan Romero. Heroes.

listermint

It's what happens when consumerism is the new religion and people constantly need to be reminded of what's important in life.



We are some loopers

dan1895

Stupid c*nts

Hal3000

Moronic

Junkyard Tom

Can't you just imagine some automaton Apple middle manager ordering the staff to form a guard-of-honour for the champion consumer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgyLQ2jVsuY

The first thing they'll do with their new phone is tweet #saveAfrica.

Ted_YNWA

Fools and their money are easily parted.

Steve Jobs favourite saying.

Yamanoto

The IFTA's have been on to their agents already I'd say

dmc17

Congratulations to Apple more like for demonstrating how stupid people actually are

McMurphy

Big fan of Apple right there.






Tart.



Apple tart.

Wheety

I hope this happens when he opens it.

EmmetSpiceland

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Big fan of Apple right there.






Tart.



Apple tart.

Classy, as always, J.

McMurphy

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Classy, as always, J.

Go talk about shyte in your Jax thread "E".

circadian

This is up there with anti-vax and flat earth for me. It's a bloody phone, and most likely almost identical hardware as last year at an inflated price.

kneemos

circadian wrote: »

This is up there with anti-vax and flat earth for me. It's a bloody phone, and most likely almost identical hardware as last year at an inflated price.

If they were cheap nobody would buy them.

dirtyden

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Go talk about shyte in your Jax thread "E".

To be the fair to Emmet your post also belongs in the Shyte thread.

JohnnyFlash

dirtyden wrote: »

To be the fair to Emmet your post also belongs in the Shyte thread.

I’d say JD probably found it funnier in his head. Was lining himself up for a good ego-boost of thanks (like the first purchasers of a mass produced phone), and is now a bit sour because people didn’t find it particularly funny, and because it smacks of effort.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

I’d say JD probably found it funnier in his head. Was lining himself up for a good ego-boost of thanks (like the first purchasers of a mass produced phone), and is now a bit sour because people didn’t find it particularly funny, and because it smacks of effort.

The thread is young and it’s early. He’ll get more likes though Emmet’s post will probably get more.

s4uv3

I'd be bleedin' morto if I got a round of applause for buying a phone. I don't even like meeting people in Penneys.

Wanderer78

We re a strange breed us humans, thank God there's no cameras on me photographying my weirdness

Lesson: Don't offer muppets unwarranted attention. Especially when their value system is completely askew. Win for Apple, a vastly overrated company promoting a cult of need.

colm_mcm

Would Apple store emoloyees not usually be standing up anyway?

Greyfox

Apple taking advantage of the fact that there's millions of eejits out there, great bit of free advertising for them. There new iPhone is at most 1% better than the last one but that doesn't matter when most people are slaves to consumerism.

Wibbs

Deleted User wrote: »

Lesson: Don't offer muppets unwarranted attention. Especially when their value system is completely askew. Win for Apple, a vastly overrated company promoting a cult of need.

Yup BH, 100% with you there. Would that it were only Apple. We're absolutely drowning in companies pushing this nonsense and wider society plugging into it more and more. Ask the average Google Android phone owner, especially the ones calling Apple ****(and they are), how many phones have they bought since their version of the smartphone was launched(in direct response to the first iPhone)? If anything that market moves far faster than the Apple phone ecosystem so more "new" phones with more new "features" are produced, more rapidly, by more companies. All of which would sell their own mothers to get the kind of blindly loyal customer base Apple has fostered.

JohnnyFlash

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

I’d say JD probably found it funnier in his head. Was lining himself up for a good ego-boost of thanks (like the first purchasers of a mass produced phone), and is now a bit sour because people didn’t find it particularly funny, and because it smacks of effort.

No need to be quite so vicious man.

The young man made an error of judgement. Emmet's response was already perfectly sardonic, whilst being economical enough not to humiliate the chap. There was certainly no need to denounce and fulminate from the cheap seats.

Perhaps we could all be a little kinder. Isn't that right Johnny Dogs?

wyf437gn6btzue

Deleted User wrote: »

New York:



Let's give it up for Muhannad Al Nadaf and Ryan Romero. Heroes.

you honestly have to be vacant in the head to stand and cheer cause some retard spent a thousand quid on a phone.

Wibbs

Aadhya Wonderful Radio wrote: »

you honestly have to be vacant in the head to stand and cheer cause some retard spent a thousand quid on a phone.

Bread and circuses. It's the little things that keep the "mob" happy. Until they need their next hit. Which will be provided in lovely shiny placcy packaging. You know the current model is fcuked when "unboxing" videos are a thing on Youtube.

Dempsey

I cant wait for their save the planet posts/tweets sent from their phone

EmmetSpiceland

Wibbs wrote: »

Bread and circuses. It's the little things that keep the "mob" happy. Until they need their next hit. Which will be provided in lovely shiny placcy packaging. You know the current model is fcuked when "unboxing" videos are a thing on Youtube.

But nerds, or even geeks, have always fallen along these “battle lines”. You’d have your “Star Wars” vs “Star Trek”, “Apple/Mac” vs “PC” and then things like “Marvel” vs “DC comics”.

All supported with the same hostility and dedication as normal folk would follow a “sports” team. I’d say there’s a fair bit of “over-zealous” celebrating from the “Apple/Mac” side due to so many years of domination from the “PC” crowd.

You’d have to imagine that a lot of the “PC” supporters have “jumped ship” to fawn over the Apple products, similar enough to how so many Manchester United soccer fans have moved over to League of Ireland since their original “favourite” has gone into such decline.

I, personally, use an iPhone. The X, I think. It’s a grand smartphone. I wouldn’t fancy using an “Android” now just because it would take awhile to get used to using it. Same when you’d move from a Nokia to an Ericsson back in the day.

The blind “dedication” seen above is just a bit sad but if the people are enjoying themselves, and no one is getting hurt, I don’t see the need for the level of venom being spat at them here.

sabat

I bet whatever he uses it for could be done easily on some $99 job from gearbest.

Strumms

Aadhya Wonderful Radio wrote: »

you honestly have to be vacant in the head to stand and cheer cause some retard spent a thousand quid on a phone.

And to actually get a bus, train or taxi or drive your own car to a shop, to wait and Q and then cheer this perfect stranger as if they had just invented a cure for cancer or made some other indelible mark or contribution to society but no, they instead are being lauded with adulation because...they entered into a business transaction to buy a smart phone... and thousands of people are cheering him on because he managed to walk into a shop, buy a mass produced product, first....ugggghhhhh people,

Can we get a few of us to go in and wait beside the pick n mix in M&S in town tomorrow, the first person who goes over and fill a bag full of sweets we start cheering them furiously, take a load of photos etc... we’d most likely be escorted off the premises, taken away in a van, sat in front of a state psychologist, have our driving license confiscated and possibly our freedom too.... ITS A FÛCKING PHONE ! TWATS !

pgj2015

is this it? is this what my Granddad died for? the freedom to do this? Jesus

Wayne Jarvis

Strumms wrote: »

And to actually get a bus, train or taxi or drive your own car to a shop, to wait and Q and then cheer this perfect stranger as if they had just invented a cure for cancer or made some other indelible mark or contribution to society but no, they instead are being lauded with adulation because...they entered into a business transaction to buy a smart phone... and thousands of people are cheering him on because he managed to walk into a shop, buy a mass produced product, first....ugggghhhhh people,

Can we get a few of us to go in and wait beside the pick n mix in M&S in town tomorrow, the first person who goes over and fill a bag full of sweets we start cheering them furiously, take a load of photos etc... we’d most likely be escorted off the premises, taken away in a van, sat in front of a state psychologist, have our driving license confiscated and possibly our freedom too.... ITS A FÛCKING PHONE ! TWATS !

I have a book recommendation for you Strumms

whisky_galore

Guys buy phones, who cares?

Wanderer78

whisky_galore wrote: »

Guys buy phones, who cares?

millions by the looks of it

Strumms

Guy Person wrote: »

I have a book recommendation for you Strumms

That wouldn’t help any, it would need to be a BIG book of calm

whisky_galore

Wanderer78 wrote: »

millions by the looks of it

Millions of sad bastards.

kneemos

pgj2015 wrote: »

is this it? is this what my Granddad died for? the freedom to do this? Jesus

I'm sure he's generating about five megawatts.

Dr. Bre

Probably first text on it will be about climate change !

ChikiChiki

Steve Jobs has actually built a cult following comprised of people with similar beliefs and value systems. That's not all Apple phone owners btw just the radical Apple fanboys. It really is a bizarre phenomena.

No offence but you might want to seek some help if you get overly excited over the release of a new phone.

titan18

Wibbs wrote:

Yup BH, 100% with you there. Would that it were only Apple. We're absolutely drowning in companies pushing this nonsense and wider society plugging into it more and more. Ask the average Google Android phone owner, especially the ones calling Apple ****(and they are), how many phones have they bought since their version of the smartphone was launched(in direct response to the first iPhone)? If anything that market moves far faster than the Apple phone ecosystem so more "new" phones with more new "features" are produced, more rapidly, by more companies. All of which would sell their own mothers to get the kind of blindly loyal customer base Apple has fostered.

I've had two since 2014. One bought mid 2014 and one bought late 2017. Phone i had before that was from 2008 (a Nokia)

ChikiChiki

whisky_galore wrote: »

Guys buy phones, who cares?

We should all care that people priorities seem to be askew. The fawning over material possessions is not good for society.

kneemos

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Steve Jobs has actually built a cult following comprised of people with similar beliefs and value systems. That's not all Apple phone owners btw just the radical Apple fanboys. It really is a bizarre phenomena.

No offence but you might want to seek some help if you get overly excited over the release of a new phone.

Tesla has a similar following for some reason. The guy is some sort of soothsayer or something.
Hasn't invented anything,just used existing or old technology in a new application.

Atlantic Dawn

My dream is to someday be that person and when I got outside in front of all the media take a lump hammer out of my pocket and smash the phone to pieces, you would never have to buy a pint again.

Atlantic Dawn

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

My dream is to someday be that person and when I got outside in front of all the media take a lump hammer out of my pocket and smash the phone to pieces, you would never have to buy a pint again.

Well filthy android users would agree but I certainly wouldn’t buy him a pint.

thecornflake

Aadhya Wonderful Radio wrote: »

you honestly have to be vacant in the head to stand and cheer cause some retard spent a thousand quid on a phone.

I would imagine most of the people in the crowd and most of the people who queue for the opening etc are actually hired by Apple to create the impression of a bigger following.

At least that's the hope I cling to which is better than the low intelligence picture they present here.

20Wheel

thecornflake wrote: »

I would imagine most of the people in the crowd and most of the people who queue for the opening etc are actually hired by Apple to create the impression of a bigger following.

At least that's the hope I cling to which is better than the low intelligence picture they present here.

i wanted to believe the same thing about krispy kreme in the blanchardstown center.

turns out many people are just complete bandwagon jumping idiots.

Still waters

Fcukin ****

touts

Apple stopped being an innovative technology company years ago. They really haven't done anything technological significant since the death of Steve Jobs.

BUT they have transformed into a fashion company. People now buy the latest iPhone11 because it's fashionable. They aren't spending €1500 because of the high level of Technology. They are buying it because of the badge. It's akin to a person spending an extra 20k on an Audi which is basically the same as a Skoda in the showroom next door just with a different shell. Apple buyers buy apple devices because they believe spending an extra €800 on a badge makes a statement about who they are. What that statement is can vary depending on the opinion of the viewer.

NIMAN

..and the same ones who are pushing this global rebellion stuff, moaning at governments about them killing the planet while they change their perfectly good mobile every year.

Muppets.

nkl12xtw5goz70

Spinal Tap explain why you just have to go to 11.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOO5S4vxi0o