Thursday, September 20th, 2012. New York City – The new iPhone 5 will be release on Friday, September 21, at the apple store on 767 5th ave at 59th st. The release has brought people out to camp on the sidewalks of apple with tents and sleeping bags.
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According to CNET, people began lining up at the Apple Store on Friday, September 14th, a week early. First in line is Hazem Sayed, Body-paint artist and model Jessica Mellow took the third spot.
Occupiers said on Facebook, “To highlight selective enforcement and the slave-labor of apple products we will bring our tents, signs and livestream. Technically their camping is illegal while our presence is not due to the court ruling on metropolitan council Inc v Safir which states sleeping on the sidewalk as protest is protected by your first amendment right. Why can they camp to consume but we cannot to protest. Curious to see how the cops will react.”
They said, occupiedair will be LIVE from Manhattan, NYC.
micgadget.com reports that “A undercover report (there is no guarantee of the report’s authenticity) shows on how the new iPhone 5 was made inside Foxconn Factory. A Chinese news agency, Shanghai Evening Post, has sent an experienced journalist to slip into the Foxconn Tai Yuan factory and pretended as a new worker, his mission is to find out how the new iPhone 5 is produced. The Chinese journalist precisely recorded his 10 days of working experience in the factory and published a dairy to disclose the inside story of manufacturing the iPhone 5. The Tai Yuan Foxconn factory is recently well-known for it’s large-scale workers strike which took place during March. Back then the factory urgently needs 20,000 more workers because Foxconn has received orders for the production of iPhone 5. The plants needs to produce 57 million iPhone 5 for each year. Apparently, the journalist only stayed inside the Foxconn factory for 10 days due to the undesirable working conditions. He has undergone mean training during the first 7 days and finally got the chance to take part the producing of iPhone 5 on the 8th day …”
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Apple announced Monday that iPhone 5 pre-orders topped 2 million in the first 24 hours, double the number the iPhone 4S received last year.
The iPhone 5 will be sold at prices starting at $199 for 16GB. $299 for 32GB, $399 for 64GB when signing a contract with AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon.
Apple Inc.’s Senior Vice President Phillip Schiller said the company hopes to reach 100 countries and 240 mobile carrier partners by this December.
The iPhone 5 is set to be released in nine countries this Friday: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, United Kingdom, and the United States.
On Friday, Sept. 28, the iPhone 5 will be released in 22 other countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
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