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

Fools and their money are easily parted.

Steve Jobs favourite saying.

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

I hope this happens when he opens it.

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.

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 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.

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 !

whisky_galore wrote: »

Guys buy phones, who cares?

millions by the looks of it

Wanderer78 wrote: »

millions by the looks of it

Millions of sad bastards.

Probably first text on it will be about climate change !

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 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.

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.