Metropol

Sput wrote:Wanker.

To quote Sput, ^

6am, queueing in regents street...

This is desperate!

YOU are queuing in Regent Street? METROPOL DEMANDS PHOTOGRAPHS IF SO

Sadly I didn't take any piccies of the queue proper, although I did take a sneaky pic of that posh kid who was kicked off junior apprentice in the first season:



I also took a pic of the card everyone was given just before meeting their designated apple expert.



All in all it was a lot less like standing in a queue for (in my case) 2.5 hours than it might have been, lots of freebees and a big media circus. I bet I'm on TV somewhere, there was an arabic-speaking reporter "pacing slowly toward the lens" just to the right of me and constantly nearly getting run over by traffic, and pret a manger were handing out free food and drinks. Sod me going prepared then with diet coke and grapes! But I hadn't done the product launch scene before...

A county man came back and told me I was #119 in the queue. I had previously estimated I was 115 (well you have to do something to pass the time) so quite pleased with myself there. That tells you "only" 119 people botherd to show up before 5.30 AM.

Apple store employees cheered your name as you went in and when you exited with an ipad (or 2 in my case!)

Hmm Thats enough detail

cdd wrote:Apple store employees cheered your name as you went in and when you exited with an ipad (or 2 in my case!)

No, they were cheering the £450.

£89,250 assuming 1.5 3G ipads p/p in front of me but dont spoil my dream.

I found me!

Someone's been out and bought Jake Humphrey one for the F1 coverage.

He had one for Monaco as well, so clearly imported it from somewhere.

Chie wrote:

cdd wrote:Apple store employees cheered your name as you went in and when you exited with an ipad (or 2 in my case!)

No, they were cheering the £450.

Either way, I think it's creepy. When you went in did they shout "is wrong" after your name? I'd have paid £450 for that.

Well not £450, maybe £4.50. Metro doesn't have the resources for £450 as Dimblebot keeps turning off the adverts every time he appears claiming they "threaten his impartiality" the twat.

I saw a report about the iPad launch on Five News the other day. They interviewed a man who said - I'm not kidding - "I'm happy! I'm happy! I'm the happiest I've ever been in my whole life!"

I find that quite concerning, but hey, I don't want to spoil anyone's fun. Enjoy your iPads. I just couldn't reconcile the price (apparently there's a £700 version) with the inevitability that the shot of happiness will rapidly diminish or the iPad will be out of fashion within about two years.

Apple is a cult though - in the worst sense of the word. And the company knows it.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/scie ... 080116663/

Worst sense of the word, chie? Same league as the mass suicides?