iPhone queues – Truth will out
Posted on September 12, 2008 by admin
Almost month ago IPhone 3G was introduced in Poland by two Polish mobile networks – Orange and Era. Everybody have seen the massive histeria in fronts of the mobile network operators’ shops in US, UK, Holland, Belgium and other countries when the new iPhone 3G became available. Our Polish Orange decided to help the Polish histeria. Since we – Poles – are not as rich as people in the western Europe, iPhone is not as easily available for us as for the western people, no body predicted crowds in the fronts of the mobile networks’ shops. But the queues appeared couple of days before this very special “iPone day”. Unfortunately people in the queues were not Apple maniacs or gadget maniacs in general. They were rather kids from the high schools and students. They were not familiar nor with other Apple products nor showing any iPhone excitement. Some of them prepared cardboard signs “place in the queue for sale for 500 PLN” (almost 150 Euro). Of course nobody wanted to buy it. The kids were clearly regarded as a hired by mobile operator. And now we have some news on business pages of Yahoo about Orange statemen in which the operator admit that hired “actors”:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080822/poland_fake_iphone_seekers.html
