It is a beautiful day. You are wearing an Apple Watch.

The Verge ^ | April 24, 2015 | T.C. Sottek and Adi Robertson

[amigatec]

It's a beautiful day. You just got your Apple Watch™ in the mail! You take it to your living room and unbox it. Wow. It's incredible.

You go through the setup process, and link it to your iPhone. You set the charging dock on your nightstand, and set an alarm. You go to sleep, and dream of floating through white clouds in a blue sky as Jony Ive narrates. Your alarm wakes you at 9:30 on Saturday — the alarm on your Apple Watch. You pick the Apple Watch up from its charging dock, and put it on your wrist. Gee, that looks fancy.

[Star Traveler]

I’ve heard reports that other companies have been known to PAY PEOPLE to stand in lines to make it look like an Apple Event for their products! ... LOL ...

But ... no one has been able to pull it off, consistently, for any other mass market hi-tech item ... other than Apple.

CONGRATULATIONS to Apple for being so wildly successful!

[Leep]

What if Tim Cook won’t you to bake him a cake, for his gay wedding, and he will give you a Apple Watch, would you bake him a cake?

[Leep]

Edit:

What if Tim Cook wanted you to bake him a cake, for his gay wedding, and he will give you a Apple Watch, would you bake him a cake?

JSYK i am not a Luddite, think certain technologies like search engines and GPS are amazing.

[amigatec]

To begin with I don't bake wedding cakes, and I really doubt you would want to eat it if I did.

[amigatec]

And as I have stated before the Apple Watch just isn't a priority for me.

[Star Traveler]

Sure! I do business transactions with people all day long and when I give them something in exchange for a service or product ... I KNOW they will probably use it for something I would NEVER engage in.

Just about EVERY PERSON I give something in return for what they give me ... I know this is going to be the case!

SO ... if Tim was a neighbor of mine, and he said, “Hey star! Would you bake a cake for me at my wedding, where I’m marrying my boyfriend and I’ll pay you one Apple Watch of your choice!”

I would say, “No problem, Tim! I’m not a baker, but I can do a simple cake for you. And, I would love to get that Apple Watch!” ... :-) ...

I would say I got the better deal in that business transaction ... I paid one $30 cake for a $350 Apple Watch! I should get DEALS like that everyday! ... LOL ...

NOW ... there are some people who would not want to bake a cake, and Inuwould say that’s fine for them. But I have no problem in buying and selling to people, even when I know that it’s true that MOST of my business transactions are being used by the recipients in ways I would NEVER do.

[adorno]

Actually, NO!!!, that’s Apple that has its employees stand in line and wait for over a week before a product is scheduled to launch. But, the regular iZombies do take notice of those waiting in line, and they too get in line, thereby increasing the size of the waiting line, and making whatever product seem like a must-have for all the other iZombies, who will get the product, even if not the first day.

In fact, Apple has been rumored to also artificially increase the traffic volume in their stores, to make it seem as if there is always something new to be had, or to make it seem as if Apple is always having massive sales in each store.

The Apple tactics apparently work with people like you, or you are one of those Apple employees deceiving the regular public about how they must buy or need to see what’s happening in the stores.

So, what will iZombies like you do with their time once the iPhone drops in popularity? Can zombies die?

[Star Traveler]

LOL ... yeah sure ... Apple pays its employees to stand in line ... :-) ...

Lying is another common thing that APPLE-HATER TROLLS do. The only problem with this lie is that others know all too well, that Apple doesn’t have to pay anyone to stand in line. Apple would have to pay them to NOT stand in line! ... :-) ...

And talking about the “traffic” in the stores, I recently was at Starbucks one Saturday morning when my iPad all of a sudden had a problem (a restarting problem), so I headed down to the Woodland Hills Apple Store (in Tulsa) and got there about 15 minutes before it opened. There were chairs outside (in the mall) and so I sat down and waited. By the time the store opened, there were 8 people waiting. I got right in, of course, and within less than 10 minutes, they agreed to replace my iPad for no cost to me. I left the store within 15 minutes of them first opening and the store WAS FULL already!

On the way out, I passed by a Microsoft store, which had a little bit more square footage than the Apple Store, and had just three customers in the store, with most of the store empty ... :-) ...

Every time I’ve been to an Apple Store (in three states) they’ve always had customers in them and never less than half full (related to how many can fit in there at full). They simply have customers there all the time.

And yes ... Apple tactics work with me ... those tactics being making their products with excellence and attention to detail, plus having one of the highest customer satisfaction ratings in the industry. They’ll work every time! ... :-) ...

[Swordmaker]

I’ve heard reports that other companies have been known to PAY PEOPLE to stand in lines to make it look like an Apple Event for their products! ... LOL ...

But ... no one has been able to pull it off, consistently, for any other mass market hi-tech item ... other than Apple.

Samsung pays people to protest outside Australian Apple Store; goal is to mock iSheep culture Posted: 26 Apr 2012 — PhoneArena —by Alan F

How Samsung sees Apple iPhone and Apple iPad users

Samsung is really trying to push this image of Apple iPhone and Apple iPad users as sheep. After releasing a video that did everything but directly call out all users of Apple devices as sheep, the Korean based manufacturer has ratcheted things up a notch.

This week, Samsung paid an Australian marketing company called Tongue to provide protesters to stand in front of an Australian Apple Store and scream, "Wake Up!" The protesters were bused to a location and started the chant that is designed to tell iOS users that they need to wake up and stop blindly following other iOS users.

At the same time, Samsung has put up a "Wake Up!" Australia web site that includes a countdown timer currently at 8,330,000 which is probably counting down toward the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S III, "The next Samsung Galaxy" or whatever the device is going to be called. Visit the site by clicking on the sourcelink. In the meantime, check out how aggressive Samsung has become by clicking on the video below!

Samsung's marketing budget in 2012 was $14.5 BiLLION, while their media buys were only $4 Billion. The rest was spent on stunts like the above and paying for astro-turfing, spiffs to carrier sales people and on-line shills to invade forums to bad-mouth Apple and other competitors. How much are you and your anti-Apple buddies being paid to do the same kind of thing in spamming these threads, adorno?

[Swordmaker]

Actually, NO!!!, that’s Apple that has its employees stand in line and wait for over a week before a product is scheduled to launch. But, the regular iZombies do take notice of those waiting in line, and they too get in line, thereby increasing the size of the waiting line, and making whatever product seem like a must-have for all the other iZombies, who will get the product, even if not the first day.

Claiming something you have no evidence, and Apple has no need to pay anyone to do that. You are completely living in a world of delusion.

Swordmaker's and Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the new IDC-10 addenda:

90210 iOS Munchausen's Apple-Plexy Syndrome (MAPS), The overwhelming compulsion to post negative, judgmental, aggressive, and false commentary on any website thread related to Apple products wherever found, including phobic reaction to projectedv Apple user euphoria. First and subsequent encounters.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, post a link to an authoritative source for these so-called rumors of yours. Even Apple could not afford to pay so many shills and make a profit at their stores, nor could such a HUGE conspiracy be kept quiet for long before a shill employee would make a complaint about working hours or some other silly claim about having to pretend. YOU are lying again.

The only one we see around here that seem impossible to kill are the Zombie members of the Apple Hate Brigade. They are also denser than a neutron star.