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Citizen complaint of the day: Somebody needs to broom the Apple crowd from Boylston Street
By adamg on Fri, 09/20/2013 - 7:42am
A particularly grumpy citizen complains about the people waiting outside the Apple Store this morning to buy the newest iPhone:
There is an encampment of over-privileged, unwashed, hipster morons sleeping outside 815 Boylston Street. Don't these people need a permit or something? Please evacuate these turds from our streets. Their pretentiousness is wafting all through the neighborhood.
Matt notes the kvetcher filed his complaint via his iPhone.
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There is another side of the
There is another side of the street to walk down, is there not?
This side
They were camping out next to the building - plenty of sidewalk left on this side of the street...
meow
wow really? someone complained about that?
Personally I think it's silly to stand there in line days before the actual launch just to get a phone. Really. It's just a phone folks, it's not like they are gonna stop making them after today.
I've never understood the draw.. then again, I'm an android user and really dislike the iPhone. Then again, I wouldn't stand in line for an Android phone either.
Yup
And I could marginally accept it if these things were even hard to get or would sell out. But years of Apple logistics has pretty much transformed CE logistics and supply. In the slim chance the store does run out of their hundreds of new iPhones, there will be a shipment waiting there tomorrow as well.
There’s no point to waiting in line anymore. If it’s “for the expereince / community”, just organize a new phone party at a bar down the street and invite everyone to show up. Seems like it be time better spent.
Were they homeless or there for some "political" reason
The cops would have beaten them up and demanded details and permits, etc.
I think it is a legit beef to complain about these spurious exemptions to the Thug State.
Huh? Remember Occupy Dewey
Huh? Remember Occupy Dewey Sq. ... the encampment lasted months! You couldn't walk along the sidewalk past the encampment without some creepy scruffy dude filming your every move. That was disturbing. And, what was the end result of that? Nothing. Nothing was learned, nothing was gained, nothing changed. Thought it may have begun with the best of intentions, it morphed into a giant weed-fest on tax payers' dime.
Who gives a flying f*ck if a couple dozen teens sleep overnight in front of a store to get the latest iphone or sneaker? Obviously they're doing it for the fun of it. There are worse things they could be doing, right?? At least they're not harassing people who walk by on their way to work. Cut these kids some slack, haters.
The police are dealing with
The police are dealing with the homeless situation now? Thank goodness, maybe they could come help in Southie, Roxbury, and Newmarket.
that complaint
was posted via iPhone.
Love people who
don't bother to change the signature on their wireless device to remove the "Sent from (my overpriced gadget that I give free advertising for every time I compose a message)" or at least change to "Sent from my wireless device."
The Mayor's Connect app
The Mayor's Connect app automatically appends whether the complaint was received via iOS or Android. It knows because the app is different for iOS vs Android.
And just why is which OS the complaint
was received from so relevant it has to be noted?
From the perspective of the city it makes sense.
From the perspective of the city it's probably nice to keep track of that sort of thing so you can know which versions of the app people are using. From the perspective of everyone else... eh, you might as well.
I had an idea for a practical joke...
First you have to get one of the new Iphones somehow.
But you basically walk by that line of all those people at 3am or 5am, and show them your new phone. You tell them the radio shack down the street opened at midnight and was selling the new Iphones. I'd love to see how many of those idiots stay on the sidewalk there.
before these
Launches were common and the phones were a bit harder to get on day one; somewhere, someone dressed up as the delivery guy, stacked a bunch of boxes with glass inside about twelve feet high, then proceeded to drop the whole thing walking towards the store from the delivery van.
I believe I saw it on youtube a few years back. People were almost in tears. Others raging that it better not have been their preorder.
Imagine if people actually
Imagine if people actually got this riled up collectively about more important things than lifestyle products.
I know
I've often said thats.. its sad on what Americans will get all huffy over.
Taking away Civil Rights.. nah. A small group will appear
New iPhone or Video Game. Sure, people line up for miles.
o/~ You know you we are living in a material world.. and I'm mmmaterial girl... o/~
Well, here we go again!
My brother (huge cheese at Apple) literally rubs his hands together and cackles maniacally at the saps who stand out in front of Apple stores on release day.
His attitude is one of if people ever smarten up and realize that the phone will be available 2 days after release day and that they should stop lining up like lemmings, he might not be able to add that $17,000 Runco projector to the cabana at his beach house.
Okay, but logic for a moment...
No one pays more for buying it on day one, so your brother would only be making more money off these kids' misguided enthusiasm if the phone was so defective that it is unlikely any of them would buy it once the reviews came out two days later. In fact, the logistics of having to ship so many for day one, keep them secure until the appointed time, and staff up the stores for the hordes probably costs more in logistics and overtime than than a steady stream of customers.
I bet that projector is sweet, though.
best advertising
is free advertising.
Apple probably got $500 million worth this morning across the nation as local news covered these people waiting in lines every 30 mins for 5-6 hours of news.
And they didn't even spend a dime.
Whcih speaks volumes
as to how pathetic the MSM has become that they even consider this a newsworthy story.
Then again, Boston.com has been in Apple's pocket for years. And I doubt they do the reporting for free (as in, give us X iPhones and Y iPads for our reporters to use).
Wow.
You really believe that Apple is handing out free devices to reporters in exchange for uh...being mentioned in the Globe? What else did those voices speaking through your fillings tell you today?
Yes, thank god only the
Yes, thank god only the LAMEstream media reports on these things and we have sites like this to rely on for important news like this.
Compared to the bland style
Compared to the bland style of pretentiousness that pervades the Back Bay, a little Allstonian infusion of hipsters should be a breath of fresh air. Now, if they start patronizing Back Bay bars and chain stores, then get worried.
Hipsters?
Excuse me? Berklee College of Music much? Back Bay doesn't need any more of that particular "fresh air."
Overheard in the elevator
Our elevators at work have a little telesoma screen that flickers little blipverts and news blips at us while we ride.
There was a picture of a couple with their new toys, and a caption "after camping for four days ..."
A lady behind me said "If I had four free days to go camp out, I wouldn't be camping outside an Apple store!"
Good heavens--who cares?
When my kid was younger, she and her friends used to love going to things FIRST--Harry Potter midnight shows, etc. It's good clean nerdy fun. No harm, no foul. Why anyone would want to sleep on the street to get a champagne gold iPhone (or a flat screen TV at Target or whatever) is beyond me, but as long as they're not breaking windows or trampling anyone, I couldn't care less.
Pretentiousness?
I'd humbly submit that pretentiousness is better exemplified by calling a whole group of people "morons" and "turds" for doing something they enjoy, simply because they make a different style and entertainment choice, than by getting excited about a new toy and spending the wee hours nerding out with similarly excited people.
I don't have any interest in getting a new iPhone or waiting in long lines. Hell, when I saw the long line outside the Verizon store this morning, I didn't even realize what they were waiting on, but I was happy to see people excited about something - other than a new idea for a snide remark about hipsters or Beiber fans or any of the other groups that share harmless joys that I don't understand.
But then, perhaps I'm just getting in the way of someone's ability to enjoy kneejerk griping.
Apple
Sheep.