Thinkin’ about the code
Image by Ed Yourdon
Waiting for iPhone 3g – Jul 18, 2008 – 058
This young man and woman seemed to be writing a computer program, or perhaps building a website, as they sat in a shady area off to the side of the people waiting in line … I didn’t get close enough to them to see exactly what they were up to …
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Note: this photo was published in a Dec 30, 2009 blog titled "12 Lessons Learned for Getting Better Results from Developers."
Moving into 2010, the photo was published in a Jan 8, 2010 blog titled "Has the Internet Improved Writing?" It was also published in a Feb 23, 2010 blog titled "University computer degrees promise better student career prospects." And it was published in an Apr 23, 2010 wiki titled "lTeachable Moments 2.0: Bibliographic Instruction in the Academic Library." It was also published in a May 29, 2010 Technologeek blog, with the same title as the caption that I used on this Flickr page. And it was published in a May 31, 2010 Greek blog titled "Η καλύτερη στιγμή στην Ελλάδα για Android, Maemo και Symbian developers." It was also published in a Jul 12, 2010 blog titled "All in a day’s work: in the shoes of a Bob." It was also published in a Sep 14, 2010 blog titled "Lehrstelle finden: Viele Ausbildungsplätze sind immer noch unbesetzt." And it was published in a Nov 15, 2010 blog titled "Making Money Online: Female Internet Marketers Increase." It was also published in a Nov 21, 2010 blog titled "Q&A: How to make money online from your home?" And it was published in a Nov 25, 2010 Super Affiliate Marketing Guide blog, with the same title and detailed notes as what I had written on this Flickr page. It was also published in a Feb 15, 2011 blog titled wanita-wanita.info/erra-fazira/picture/cool-making-money-…
Moving into 2011, the photo was published along with several other unrelated ones, in an undated (late Jan 2011) Making Money From Home blog, with the same caption and detailed notes that I had written here on this Flickr page. It was also published in a Jan 28, 2011 blog titled "Werken in de zon." And a cropped version of the photo, in which the young man was eliminated (sorry!), was published in a Feb 3, 2011 blog titled Safer Facebooking." It was also published in a Feb 15, 2011 blog titled "Cool Money-Making Online Images." And it was published in a Mar 15, 2011 blog titled "San Diego County to go 4G with AT&T wireless upgrades." It was also published in an Apr 20, 2011 blog titled "Nice Affiliate Marketing photos," with the same caption and detailed notes that I had written on this Flickr page. And it was published in an Apr 23, 2011 blog titled "Cool Affiliate Marketing images," with the same caption and detailed notes that I had written on this Flickr page — as well as another Apr 23, 2011 Braziilian blog titled "CURSO VISUALG GRATUITO EM VÍDEO AULA." It was also published in an Apr 24, 2011 blog titled "For the Love of Women Bloggers." And it was published in a May 13, 2011 Video Marketing Secrets Revealed blog, with the same caption and detailed notes that I had written on this Flickr page. It was also published in a Jun 14, 2011 blog titled "Quattro consigli per rendere sexy i tuoi testi sul web." And it was published in a Jul 18, 2011 blog titled "Devcamp to train the next generation of software superstars."
The photo was also published in an undated (early Aug 2011) blog titled "12 Reasons Why Women Are Better Than Men." And it was published in an Oct 5, 2011 Fashion High Heel Shoes blog, with the same caption and detailed notes that I had written on this Flickr page.
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Silly me: after the iPhone 3g had been out for a full week, I thought I could stroll right into the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue & 59th Street in mid-town Manhattan, and simply buy one without any muss, fuss, bother, or delay.
But when I arrived at 11 AM, I found a line of approximately 150 people waiting outside in the broiling sun, not seeming to move forward at all; it turned out that the Apple store "concierge" folks were letting them in in groups of ten, when the previous ten had been taken care of. When I asked the woman how long she had been waiting, she said, "Four hours" — she had arrived at 7 AM, having already determined that the AT&T stores were sold out throughout New Jersey and Connecticut.
Well, I’m a gadget freak and a Mac fan, but there’s a limit to my passion for such things; four hours was just too much. So instead, I decided to take a bunch of pictures of the people who were in the line. Of course, I have no idea whethere the people queued up in front of Apple stores in other cities (or at other stores here in NYC) are similar to this group … but I’m inclined to think that they are. And if that’s true, then the demographics of this group — in terms of age, gender, nationality, ethnic groups, etc. — is particularly intriguing. I saw only one guy dressed in a corporate uniform of suit and tie; Apple may be trying to break into the "enterprise" market, but that’s not who was standing in line for all those hours in the sun…
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