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Hurricane Sandy doesn't stop iPad Mini lines
« on: November 02, 2012, 04:21:14 PM »
Good god... It looks like a sweet piece of tech and if I weren't Mustachian I'd be sorely tempted -- but this is what people are doing when their neighbors are in such terrible straights?

http://www.eweek.com/mobile/ipad-mini-creates-new-lines-in-a-city-already-suffering-them/

iPad Mini Creates New Lines in a City Already Suffering Them

"While residents of New York and New Jersey stood on painfully long lines for buses and subways and much-needed gasoline, at Apple's flagship cube store at the foot of Central Park, the iPad-desirous began lining up as early as 10 p.m. Nov. 1, according to Cnet. The tech site interviewed the person on line—a 21-year-old from Queens who still has no power at home but plans to return with a fully charged white 16GB iPad Mini."

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Re: Hurricane Sandy doesn't stop iPad Mini lines
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2012, 05:39:52 PM »
<sarcasm>A "superstorm" is a temporary inconvenience, but an iPad lasts forever for six months until the next one comes out!</sarcasm>

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Re: Hurricane Sandy doesn't stop iPad Mini lines
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2012, 07:42:33 PM »
Like the Starbucks story posted yesterday, to me this seems like people trying to maintain normalcy in a hectic and disrupted life.