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17 Mar 2012, 6:11 pm

Disturbing? In what sense?

Yes, I think the people in them are complete morons devoid of any common sense and self-respect, but am I disturbed? Not really... more, er... what's the word? Baffled why people would want to behave like that. Their life, their choice.

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17 Mar 2012, 6:15 pm

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The fact you find this "disturbing" means your only looking at it from your point of view

Well of course, I have no other point of view but my own. That's why I was asking.

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unlike them they do not want to be socially alienated.

Hhmm, I'm not what it is to be socially alienated. In the above example, copying (if it were possible) the others would just make me feel like a plonker and I certainly wouldn't feel any more accepted by others or less remote.

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17 Mar 2012, 6:15 pm

I think they're all sheep for buying iPads.

And I think you're all sheep for replying to this topic.

And I think I'm a sheep for calling people sheep.

My head hurts.

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17 Mar 2012, 6:24 pm

I find the images confusing and therefore don't even know what was going on---so I didn't vote.

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17 Mar 2012, 6:35 pm

Well when a new game comes out. You want to get there first, or you could be waiting months to get your hands on it. As they run out of stock, due to the inability to keep production up.

Translated "iPad" manufacturing if your not first in line. You could be waiting a "Year" or more before you get it. Hence why they feel so good.

Or insert anything else that would run out of stock fast. What happens if you just want one.

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17 Mar 2012, 6:37 pm

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What happens if you just want one.

Then you wait like everyone else.

Honestly, some people and their need for instant gratification.

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17 Mar 2012, 6:44 pm

Tequila wrote:

TechnoDog wrote:

What happens if you just want one.

Then you wait like everyone else.

Honestly, some people and their need for instant gratification.

Your looking at people who can wait, rather than the ones who can't. Maybe I am just more open minded, about not just seeing one side of a slider that has 2 options.

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17 Mar 2012, 7:24 pm

Tequila wrote:

This.

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17 Mar 2012, 7:28 pm

http://gizmodo.com/5894094/we-people-an ... y-loved-it

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We Gave People an iPad 2, Told Them It Was the New iPad, and They Loved It

Apple's advertising onslaught is already battering down doors and TVs around the nation—you're gonna upgrade to a new iPad whether you like it or not. But based on our little test, most people can't tell the difference anyway.

We figured that if we—enormous nerds who fixate on pixel density—were underwhelmed by the screen, then what about non-gadget geeks? We rounded some coworkers and handed them a "new iPad." The "new iPad" was an iPad 2. They loved the new iPad.

Apple doesn't even need to try anymore.

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17 Mar 2012, 9:15 pm

I think it's rather funny.

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17 Mar 2012, 9:44 pm

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Well, the images seriously give me the willies. Something about the herd behaviour.

Yes, looks stressful.

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17 Mar 2012, 10:59 pm

I don't find anything disturbing about those images at all.

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17 Mar 2012, 11:15 pm

nemorosa wrote:

But forgetting all that for a moment, I don't understand the purpose of the behaviour. It just looks weird and I can't fathom what they expect to achieve or why they think anyone would want to see that. It seems a very recent phenomenon, 20 years ago I can't imagine people doing that kind of thing.

You don't remember the crazy rush for Elmos? Or Cabbage Patch Kids? Or... I don't know, Beatle Mania? People idolize weird things. There's always some product that suddenly everybody has to have as some kind of status thing.

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17 Mar 2012, 11:44 pm

Air Jordans?

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18 Mar 2012, 12:08 am

I must be old, I don't get it. Can someone explain why this would be disturbing?

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18 Mar 2012, 12:35 am

Idol worship, apple style.

Very disturbing because they are in essence bowing to a massive company that uses exploited labor. A company that charges 30% of all sales of other peoples applications right off the top. Your talking about bowing to a company with a stock in the $600 range on the back of suicides and cheap materials.

IMO apple will implode within the next year, and their stocks will fail.

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