{"id":16991,"date":"2012-09-19T08:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16991"},"modified":"2012-09-19T08:09:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:09:01","slug":"just-who-does-join-the-early-queue-for-a-new-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/19\/just-who-does-join-the-early-queue-for-a-new-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Just who does join the early queue for a new iPhone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Register<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/09\/19\/the_iphone_5_queue_london\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Leach<\/a> asks the folks in line at the Apple store in London:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The iPhone 5 doesn&#8217;t go on sale until 8am on Friday, 21 September &#8211; yet lines of fanbois, socio-averse hipsters, campaigners and self-promoting twits awaiting the new mobe are already clogging the pavements outside Apple Stores.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday on the steps of London&#8217;s flagship Regent Street pomaceous-product outlet, punters queueing to seize the slightly updated phone include an unemployed bloke, a very keen Apple enthusiast and his carer and some very recalcitrant bods who insisted that <em>El Reg<\/em> bring them coffees. No such luck, Popeye.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that four of the first seven queuers were making films about why people queue for iPhones speaks volumes about pre-launch iPhone hype. Given the media circus surrounding those who shun more practical methods of shopping and instead queue in the British September air, it&#8217;s not surprising that all of the first six were representing interest groups on the lookout for publicity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Register&#8216;s Anna Leach asks the folks in line at the Apple store in London: The iPhone 5 doesn&#8217;t go on sale until 8am on Friday, 21 September &#8211; yet lines of fanbois, socio-averse hipsters, campaigners and self-promoting twits awaiting the new mobe are already clogging the pavements outside Apple Stores. Yesterday on the steps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,831,15],"tags":[160,27,428],"class_list":["post-16991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-business","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-iphone","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4q3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16992,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions\/16992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}