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Posted on Sunday, November 11th, 2007 at 12:06am. #


Photo: ryaninc. Used under licence.

Overheard this morning in a Carphone Warehouse, as a customer was being shown the new Apple iPhone by the manager…

Yeah, like, take a look at this maps thing! It’s sick, man! You can see the trees and everything! And get this - Apple have launched loads of satellites - loads - and they’re all for the EXCLUSIVE USE of iPhone users, right. Look at that! It’s sick, man! Sick!

I’ve never taken advice/bullshit from a Carphone Warehouse person, and am so grateful that I’ll never need to.

3 comments

Frankie Roberto said at November 11th, 2007 at 11:23am

That’s sick, man.

William T said at November 11th, 2007 at 3:37pm

Quite an interesting blog post I’ve just read via The Register, claiming (with photos) there were only 15 people in the Regent Street Apple Store queue and all the London Carphone Warehouses were empty:

http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/blog/?p=750

Incidentally, the conversation you describe is one of the few social situations - if talking about Google Maps can be regarded as a social situation - in which I’d be prepared to go over and intervene, assuming they looked like they were being taken in. Did you? (Not that I have ever set foot in a Carphone Warehouse.)

ryaninc said at November 12th, 2007 at 2:00pm

Absolutely! I put all my pictures up under creative commons. I think that’s what makes the Internet so cool…sharing. Thanks for showing me where you used it!

And yeah, crazy story. I hate it when other people get credit for Google’s work, but it happens more often that you’d think. :-(

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