Apple Drone #2112

Dave and I went down to experience the Jaguar event at the Apple Store. The deal is you get there and at 10:20pm they open their doors, do a song and dance, then you buy the new OS and leave. We got there around 10:25pm and the line went from the Apple store snaked around to one end of the mall and then back towards the food court. It was almost out the food court into the parking lot when we arrived. What I had thought was going to be a private ceremony among a few intimate friends turned into the wait to ride Space Mountain.

Griff walked up right as we walked in. Thank goodness we had some good conversation for the two and a half hour wait to get into the Apple store. Griff got some great shots of the freaks updating their TiBooks right there in the mall. The wait to pay for my copy of Jaguar was about another hour. I finally made it back home around 2:15am.

Who were these hordes of people waiting around to buy an OS upgrade? What mass hysteria overtook us? I feel like I totally bought into the Apple marketing hype and I don’t understand why I was taken in so easily. A lot of people seized on the chance to buy expensive hardware. Is their some patriotic zeal to rejuvenate the economy that brought on the buying frenzy?

All I know is I witnessed something out of the ordinary. A little Kool-Aid and a senator and I think we could have outdone Jonestown.