Apple might have to reconsider the way it eggs on its Chinese fanboys and then disappoints them after its antics created a riot on the streets of Beijing.
Apple's flagship Beijing store was pelted with eggs and there was fighting between fanboys and the police after queuing punters were told the store would not begin sales of the iPhone 4S as it promised.
Apparently Apple thought the crowd was no joke and was worried its staff might be torn apart by a Bacchanalian frenzy of fanboys.
Apple decided that it would halt all retail sales of the latest iPhone in China for the time being. Phones would be available online, through its partner China Unicom.
This news was not taken that well by the fanboys who did not seem to want to take no for an answer. Scuffles broke out before daybreak between security staff and shoppers who had been waiting in the freezing cold over night.
Apparently an Apple staff member popped up and told the shoppers that they should go home and it got even uglier.
Police had to drag some people away and photos appeared on the Chinese blogosphere of a man who had brought raw eggs in a plastic bag and handed them out to throw at the Apple logo.
One fanboy who was clearly suffering from a lack of perspective moaned to the local telly that he was suffering from cold and hunger and he could not understand why Apple had abandoned him, says Reuters.
He got into the line around 11pm and at roughly 5am the queue collapsed and there was fighting. Then the police started hitting people and it all turned ugly.
It's pretty tragic that people in China used to riot for democratic freedom. Now some are rioting for the right to buy an iPhone which is more or less the same as an earlier model.
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Apple is only this much short of
an APPLE - EGG CASSEROLE.
A human, being of 5 dimensionalities, which is the cause of his dualities/dichotomies, however, one’s blindness could be subjective, objective, projective, spiritual and human and not just the physiological variety, one’s blindness to spirituality being the most damaging if only because one is not a truel human without being empowered by one’s spirituality, the spiritual realm being of absoluteness, thereby gifting the ability to discriminate absolutely/from-The-Present and not to blindly discriminate from one’s Past or one’s Future. A Simplicity which Eludes is that that which is of The Present is a principle and is therefore of absoluteness whereas those of The Past and The Future are [The Present’s] relative and are therefore conceptual, being fully dependent on the tree-swinger’s state of depression or aggression. In other words, you cannot be a full or fuller human unless and until your blindness to spirituality has been removed thereby offering you the choice of being real or relative. Before this moment of real choice, one is merely gambling and calling the proceeds an achievement and a success.
As such, hands up those who know with 100% certainty that mankind has absolutely progressed. Not when if Spirituality, let alone Divinity, exists and most have yet to realised the reality. Hence the reason for there being so many viewpoints about Truth. Since Truth is none other than Freedom, that is also why there are many versions of Freedom too like the freedom to buy into one’s saviourship like those stupid-cum-dumb “freed Chinese” are doing. For those who merely believe that there is a Heaven and a Hell, one essential question would be that what will the dear departed Jobster think about all this fuss. Will he be glad that the size of his worship translates to cementing his place in The Final Photoshoot, and all without having to lobby, or will it be like having a ball and chain tied to his dearly departed feet thereby preventing him attending The Final Photoshoot. So near and yet so far. Makes you really ‘fink, ain’t eet. But fear not because thoughts being of imagination, anything is possible. Thoughts like being denied the freedom to buy a gadget, those damm control freak Kommies, they deserved to be overthrown - starting with pelting eggs. Where is NATO when you need them, eh, dear Uncle Tom & his Kabin Krew being on their spend, spend, spend, hols. Aren’t they lovely pious folks deserving of their long break - G’ud Bless ‘Em - every one. Pity the cannon fodders having to do all the hard work in order to make their democracy work.