I ended last week with a couple hundred of my closest champion , waiting outside the Apple Store in San Francisco , as Apple prepared to give up Leopard on a waiting world .
As the clock neared 6 p.m. , the melodic line from the storage stretch along to the end of the stoppage . More and more passersby were struck with wonder , and they just had to enquire : “ What are you place upright in ancestry for ? ”
“ An operating organisation ! ” responded dice - toilsome Apple fan with an air of pride .
Such was the vibe of the crew waiting for OS X 10.5 . About 200 truehearted Apple fan digest in job that evening , with a wild demographic ranging from gamey schoolhouse students to working professionals to retired parent looking for a fun manner to drop Friday dark in the city .
Standing in line for an operating system may seem strange to the uninitiated — it ’s not like an iPhone that you’re able to take right out of the box and wave triumphantly at your friends . ( Indeed , unlike the iPhone ’s launch , where people camp down out all day , you could be first in line to get Leopard just by showing up a mere three hours ahead of sentence . ) And if you ordered OS X 10.5 online , chance are you might have gotten it before the 6 p.m. release sentence Friday — you certainly would have saved yourself the trouble of queue up up . But most of those wait in line of descent Friday articulate it was n’t just that they wanted to be the first owners of Leopard ; they but wanted to engage in the experience of foresee a unexampled Apple product . And they wanted to do it in a gang of like - minded people .
“ I like fulfil all these the great unwashed , ” Tyler Howarth , the San Francisco State student who was first in melodic phrase in San Francisco , told me as part of our launching - event coverage . “ A lot of people do out here , and it ’s mostly for the experience , ”
But do n’t take my Word of God for it — our fellow worker at IDG News Service taped some footage of the Leopard launching , which you’re able to watch by snap play on our video player .
