Friday, September 5, 2014

"Die-hard Apple fans" waiting in line for the iPhone 6? Not exactly...

Several television news outlets are reporting about the lines of "die-hard fans" who have started lining up outside of Apple stores across the tri-state area in order to be one of the first to purchase the new iPhone6, which is rumored to be ready for release.  But are the folks camping out in line really a bunch of obsessed geeks with a burning passion to own the newest iPhone?

Not exactly.

Newsweek has the real story on this phenomenon: the people you see lined up are actually being paid quite handsomely to do so, many of them sponsored by larger companies, or savvy entrepreneurs who have figured out a way to monetize their "first in line" status.

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