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A Different Kind of Apple for iPhone Waiters

Posted Jul 8, 08 2:32 PM CDT in Technology 

(Newser) – The countdown is on ahead of Friday's release of the iPhone 3G, and a handful of buyers are waiting outside Apple's flagship New York store. But they’re not diehard fans—they’re activists hoping to promote sustainable agriculture by breaking a world record. The Waiting for Apples group queued up July 4, beating a couple of other would-be first-in-liners, reports CNet.

Those they beat to the first-in-line spot include New York Times techie David Pogue and a young Venezuelan who left in hopes of being the first to wait at a different store instead. Other potential waiters have drifted by, but so far failed to commit to the long wait in the hot Big Apple sun.

Sources CNET, Waiting for Apples

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Lilly Hayes of Boston waited in the line, which stretched for blocks, outside the city's first Apple Store before its opening, May 15, 2008.   (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Shoppers gather outside a new Apple computer store in Australia, on June 18, 2008, 24 hours before the scheduled opening.   (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
In this July 24, 2007 file photo, customers examine Apple iPhones at an Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Sustainable agriculture activists are the first to line up to buy the iPhone 3G in New York.   (AP Photo)
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