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New Phones, 6 mil in 3 days? 1800 bucks black market in China?
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I'm guessing they're not one of the primary markets and are currently hard to get there so those who "need" the latest and greatest are willing to pay whatever it takes to show it off. Personally I'm not a technology junkie and upgrade to whatever is free with the contract when the current one starts to fail.
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I guess I phones are nice for business people on the go, but I use a phone to talk to people and a computer for other stuff. My little AT&T flip top phone does everything I need and the AT&T service here has no dead areas. If I need to find out how to get somewhere, I use a map! 
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Among the Chinese, the watch you wear, the cigarettes you smoke and the phone you carry are all symbols of your status and success in your professional life.
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Well, seeing I don't smoke, don't wear a watch and my phone doesn't qualify, I guess I'd be a low class bum over there and it doesn't bother me one bit! :highly_amused: PJ
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I guess I phones are nice for business people on the go, but I use a phone to talk to people and a computer for other stuff. My little AT&T flip top phone does everything I need and the AT&T service here has no dead areas. If I need to find out how to get somewhere, I use a map!
I just talked face to face with my wife on my iPhone - while I was in NM and she visiting relatives in Germany. Perfect picture quality and sound. Just on of many reasons I like my iPhone.
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I'm one of those low end personal technology guys too. What's more important to me, my phone is free with the plan thru my company, so no bills to me. And being oncall 24/7, at 2am they probably prefer that they cannot see me...
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Oh, Please don't get me wrong, I totally agree that they are quite unique and an asset to some folks, but I have no need for one. I'm just fascinated of the sales of the new phones and the Chinese Black market prices. PJ
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I agree on that point! I love the technology, but my iPhone 5 is just fine for now. I'm not one of those ppl who stand in line all night to be the first on the block to own the latest toy.
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I went with my daughter last night to the Apple store at the mall. There were two uniformed constables at the door. I thought the store might have been robbed so I stopped to talk to one of them.
The constable told me they were hired by Apple since some of the people waiting in line for the new iPhone "couldn't behave". Adults acting like kids because of toys.
oh, forgot to mention my daughter was looking for a new MacBook Pro.
The constable told me they were hired by Apple since some of the people waiting in line for the new iPhone "couldn't behave". Adults acting like kids because of toys.
oh, forgot to mention my daughter was looking for a new MacBook Pro.
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Does anyone really know what time it is? https://www.apple.com/watch/films/#film-design
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See, that's where being retired pays off! I don't need to wear a watch, When the sun comes up, I get up, when it goes down I go to bed. If I wore a watch, it would only have to tell me what day it is! If the trash man came, it's Friday, if there's no mail in the box, it's Sunday, so you see, I only need a watch to tell me what day it is for the other 5 days!
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This was from the last release:
"Normally, when you hear screams outside an Apple store, it's because, oh, the doors have opened and there's a new gizmo for the insatiable.
However, at the Apple store in the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, N.H. on Tuesday, the screams were those of a 44-year-old Chinese woman being Tasered by police.
As WMUR-TV reports, Xiaojie Li, of Newton, N.H. says -- through her 12-year-old daughter's translation -- that she isn't proficient in English.
"She's certainly capable of coming up here and purchasing these things from the Apple store here. Whether her language inhibited that, I really don't know." Those were the words of Captain Bruce Hansen of the Nashua Police Department.
What seems clearer is that she tried to buy more iPhones than was the store's maximum of two. Li told WMUR-TV that they were for family members in China.
On Friday, she had bought two -- which would suggest her English had been good enough to make the purchases. On Tuesday, she came back to buy more.
Her daughter says that the Apple store asked her to leave, but her mother didn't understand.
The store called the police, who claim that she resisted arrest.
WCVB-TV offers a more nuanced take. It says that last Friday Li filmed other people in the Apple store who were allegedly buying more than two iPhones.
According to Hansen, she was asked to leave then too and allegedly complied.
Her daughter told WCVB-TV about the arrest: "So then the police took my mom's phone and tried to take my mom's bag. And my mom tried to ask them why, and they just threw her to the ground."
Her fiance, John Hugo, told WCVB-TV that Li has been "brutalized by the police."
"Is this proper procedure, beating her up?" he added.
The police offered to WVCB-TV that Apple had a problem with people trying to buy multiple iPhones and then selling them overseas at inflated prices. Which some might deem capitalism.
They also claimed that Li had $16,000 in cash, at the time of her being subdued.
I have contacted Apple to see if the company might like to comment on this peculiar turn of events. I will update, should the company offer its opinion.
Li is due to appear in court in January. It will be interesting to hear then what evidence both sides present to support their versions of events.
It does seem odd, however, that such force was needed to detain a 44-year-old woman. "
"Normally, when you hear screams outside an Apple store, it's because, oh, the doors have opened and there's a new gizmo for the insatiable.
However, at the Apple store in the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, N.H. on Tuesday, the screams were those of a 44-year-old Chinese woman being Tasered by police.
As WMUR-TV reports, Xiaojie Li, of Newton, N.H. says -- through her 12-year-old daughter's translation -- that she isn't proficient in English.
"She's certainly capable of coming up here and purchasing these things from the Apple store here. Whether her language inhibited that, I really don't know." Those were the words of Captain Bruce Hansen of the Nashua Police Department.
What seems clearer is that she tried to buy more iPhones than was the store's maximum of two. Li told WMUR-TV that they were for family members in China.
On Friday, she had bought two -- which would suggest her English had been good enough to make the purchases. On Tuesday, she came back to buy more.
Her daughter says that the Apple store asked her to leave, but her mother didn't understand.
The store called the police, who claim that she resisted arrest.
WCVB-TV offers a more nuanced take. It says that last Friday Li filmed other people in the Apple store who were allegedly buying more than two iPhones.
According to Hansen, she was asked to leave then too and allegedly complied.
Her daughter told WCVB-TV about the arrest: "So then the police took my mom's phone and tried to take my mom's bag. And my mom tried to ask them why, and they just threw her to the ground."
Her fiance, John Hugo, told WCVB-TV that Li has been "brutalized by the police."
"Is this proper procedure, beating her up?" he added.
The police offered to WVCB-TV that Apple had a problem with people trying to buy multiple iPhones and then selling them overseas at inflated prices. Which some might deem capitalism.
They also claimed that Li had $16,000 in cash, at the time of her being subdued.
I have contacted Apple to see if the company might like to comment on this peculiar turn of events. I will update, should the company offer its opinion.
Li is due to appear in court in January. It will be interesting to hear then what evidence both sides present to support their versions of events.
It does seem odd, however, that such force was needed to detain a 44-year-old woman. "
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"Does anyone really know what time it is?"
Neat video Bas, but the only battery powered watch I own is a 67 Bulova Accutron 218. Ironically, while I love watches and own probably close to two dozen, I don't tend to actually wear them any more except for at work. It might be a result of working at a profession that is ruled by time.
Neat video Bas, but the only battery powered watch I own is a 67 Bulova Accutron 218. Ironically, while I love watches and own probably close to two dozen, I don't tend to actually wear them any more except for at work. It might be a result of working at a profession that is ruled by time.
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I have about a half dozen watches. One Seiko I got for 15 years at my company, One Seiko I bought myself because I wanted a nice Chronometer, One fancy-schmancy German watch I wear on special occasions, Another Seiko that I inherited from my Father and a really nice Lord Elgin watch (circa 1944) that I inherited from my Grand Father (It still works and keeps reasonably accurate time). Then I have an el-cheapo Timex that I wear when I'm working on anything messy, like painting or working on the cars.