People camping outside Apple stores across
the globe to get their iPhone milliseconds before someone else is pretty sad.
It's not the desire to own the latest bit
of technology but the need to camp out, ensuring your place as 15th person to get your hands
on one from the Birmingham area or wherever your local Apple store is, but the
lengths to get it which is deplored.
It's a phone, ultimately.
But then again, you look at what you get in
an iPhone or smartphone these days and its pretty impressive.
Rewind the clocks back ten or so years and,
to have the same amount of gadgets on one item, measuring 4.87 inches (123.8
mm); the width is 2.31 inches (58.6 mm); the depth is 0.30 inches (7.6 mm); and
the weight is 3.95 ounces (112 grams) you would need:
A laptop,
an Mp3 player,
a radio (if your Mp3 player didn't have
one,)
an internet connection,
a newspaper,
a book,
a Gameboy
a DVD player and DVDs, if your ten-year-old
laptop didn't have a DVD drive and
oh, a phone, which to play Snake, phone and
text on would have probably been thicker than the iPhone.
That's one big rugsack you'd have to carry
around to have all that gear accessible.
So, is it so bad?
Imagine if ten years ago, someone had said
to you "If you camp out for a day or two I'm going to give you all this
stuff for £529, and it's going to be palm-sized.
I think the only reason that it's now
laughed at, a joke, and the iPhone queues' inhabitants are the joke is because
they're the people who have to have the latest updates. It's only a joke
because the advancements are so slim compared to the last version.
But if we look at it over a ten-year
period, it's pretty impressive.
Now here's Samsung's attempt to mock Apple
queuers. Seems a bit bitter to me. I don't remember anyone queuing up for the
Galaxy SIII?
Viva iPhone!
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