An Apple Store a day keeps the iPhone away. I keep going to the Apple Store to get an iPhone 4, my one true love. Alas, we are separated by hype. The devastation! I'm not going to pull a Juliet but keeping me from the iPhone 4 because of our class differences (if I buy the phone outright it will be pretty much $800, which to me is $1 million), drives that dagger a little bit closer to my heart. Everytime I go at 4 pm to the Apple Store so that I can stand around like a schmuck only to have a Blue Shirt tell me to line up tomorrow at 7 am for the 9 am opening, I die a little inside. But Steve Jobs is still hot.
This is Steve Jobs' fault. Everytime he does a Keynote presentation in his uniform of black sweater and jeans, his "goin' to Starbucks in my Mercedes with mocassin slippers on" uniform, I melt a little inside. If he wasn't so hot in a creepy logical-beatnick kind of way, I wouldn't want his phone. I bet he reads beat-poetry with a beret on, in binary code to the beat of a metronome -- which is hot, by the way. It's not only that, it's his sexy user-interface. An infant can appreciate Apple's UI. I think that might be my child's first words: "U-I." But U and I are not meant to be together. I am such a good Apple customer, PLEASE, Steve Jobs, quit building hype. Quit being so good at marketing. Separate yourself from your brand so that people don't love Apple so much; so that I can be with my one true love! For $269.
Have you tried going to a Rogers store? In August, I was racing around, trying to get an iPhone 4 before school started, because I knew I'd never get one once school started. I followed @AccessWinnipeg on Twitter, and they gave iPhone 4 updates. Once I read that there was a new shipment, I'd race over to the Apple Store. However, I always just missed it. On a whim, I tried the Rogers store in Polo Park, and managed to get one there - and I wasn't in line for five hours!
ReplyDeleteThe iPhone 4 is amazing - I hope you can get yours soon!
I will try Rogers again because now I have some hope! I went 3 times, and every time I would wait patiently and I would ask, "do you guys have any iPhone 4s?" and every time the guy would laugh at me and say, "uh...........no." But someone has to be selling one at some point. I'm glad you got yours.
ReplyDeleteThe Rogers Store worked for me as well. A young employee there actually called me when the phones came in.
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