I’m standing outside the Apple’s 5th Avenue Flagship store with Caitlin, Motherboard’s awesome new intern. I’m overcome by a contact high I’ve picked up from the sleep-deprived iPhone fanatics. Layers of sweat and yesterday’s rain coat a couple dozen overnighters, while the barking of various brands’ street teams trying to piggyback the launch event and promo-people spiral their bottles of dangerously caffeinated ice coffee at us. And, still, none of this typical NYC sidewalk chaos is enough to overpower the yelling of an indignant #OccupyApple movement, of which half of the line consists of.Yesterday, all the silly awkwardness of the iPhone 5 waiting line added up to a pretty gnarly feeling. Some of the fanatics were drenched in sleep-eye crust while others munched on $5 tuna foot-longs. Some just peacefully sit and read, ignoring the swarm of international media operations. Some of them even planned on buying the new phone. Here is a collection of quick interviews we did with a few of the iPhone 5 line’s more colorful characters.Read the rest over at Motherboard.
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