So this is what the 92 million people who have “voluntarily” left the labor force have been doing. They’ve been waiting in line for the new iPhone 6. Of course this is a rational thing for an iMoron to do. They couldn’t possibly go online and have the phone delivered to their house in the next two days. They couldn’t saunter into Wal-Mart or any of the other millions of retail outlets that will have these Chinese made, NSA approved, surveillance gadgets, in the next week and whip out that credit card or lease it with nothing down. iMorons must unite. They must broadcast to the world their utter stupidity, materialism, and lack of jobs. The shallowness, vapidity, and utter foolishness of the vast swath of America is breathtaking to behold in all its iGlory. So it goes.
Hilarious. You know we’re in OZ when a company that offers 2 year old tech but the Latest Fashion has a market cap larger than Exxon/Mobil, a major firm that supplies the very stuff on which modern life runs.
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I ran into one of these iMorons at the dog park… she was going to stand in line vs. buy online because they would give her an additional discount on the phone with the trade-in of her current phone. And there was something else that would save an additional $100, so the whole thing would cost her far less than ordering online.
As a marketer, that tells me that Apple incentivizes the lines, in order to create a “mystique” and hype about the brand — which is what sells brain-dead consumers on the brand. You have to have one because ALL THOSE PEOPLE can’t be wrong.
Remember Maslow’s hierarchy of needs? “Belonging” comes before self-esteem… you can’t feel good about yourself (self-esteem) until you feel you belong to some group. Apple just taps into that to sell product and make a ton of money.
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I am rarely more ashamed of humanity as a while than when a new iphone comes out.
Greetings,
I am not surprised by this at all. I’m not much in the way of spiritualism but I am convinced that the trip we all get to make here on Earth is nothing short of winning the biggest lottery in the Universe. We are all endowed with the potential of a Mozart, Einstein or Tesla at our conception. There is literally nothing we can not do.
That our population has chosen to become obese, pharmaceutical drug addled, ignorant & narcissistic clearly demonstrates that we are unworthy for survival. Frankly, this particular civilization does not deserve to continue.
Love your commentary admin. Dc that’s a great graphic and I’ve always laughed at iPhones over priced garbage. Not that my Android nsa surveillance phone is much better but at least I get a little more bang for the buck
Question:
If your current piece of iCrap is doing all of the things you NEED it to do and is not broken, why do you need to waste you time in line and money to buy a new piece of iCrap? Even if the new iCrap does things that the old iCrap doesn’t do, you have lived without those features your entire life so a few more months or even years won’t kill you right?
This modern Bernays style marketing has created the iRetard.
My old flip phone, almost 8 years old still does all I NEED it to do plus a whole bunch of other crap I do not need it to do. I have never been outside my home and wished I could access the internet (and I LOVE the internet), check my email or do anything besides make and receive a phone call or two.
Same here, IS. I have a 5 year old Samsung flip, my beloved little talkie box, that does everything I need for a phone to do. I only bought a new one 5 years ago because I dropped the old one in the dishwater and killed it by accident. Unlimited voice, takes voicemail and text messages, what more do I need?
I do not need to text. I do not need all the “apps”. I do not need to be able to order food from Grubhub over the phone, or scan my paycheck and deposit it by phone, for I would never, never, ever conduct a financial transaction over a phone. And if there is ANYTHING I would never do, it’s program my “smart” house in my phone- just so some hacker can get into my house without even having to crowbar his way past my 2 deadbolts.
IS – In Australia having mobile Internet is very good for one thing- advance warning of severe thunderstorms. Gives us time to take shelter, and avoid the inconvenience (and COST) of hail damage to cars / caravans.
Rather than use a “Smart Phone”, it’s cheaper (and better) to use a purpose-built mobile WiFi hotspot device – which is portable, easily charged “on the go”, and will connect (wired, or wirelessly) to any computer or mobile device. They also accept external antennae (for use in marginal reception areas – i.e. most of non-metropolitan Australia!!)
Thank you, Thinker. My bullshit professor claimed there were very few self-actualized persons. His bullshit created a mystique around Maslow’s stupid triangle crap. I pictured the top of the triangle as an unreachable point way up in the sky. Then Thinker comes along some 30 years later and demolishes that tower of babel by showing how it is simply a tiny triangle.
I admire people who cut through the bullshit and call a spade a spade. In many respects, I’m guilty of religion, kowtowing to totems placed in front of me by the bullshitters.
Ain’t TBP grand?