Maxis muffin at launch!

Nope. I don't have the confirmation ID and Im in line.

Confirmation ID can be printed here, they can do that for you here.

Their venue is small. They're letting people in in batches. Lots of mi games, mainly about who can scream "iPhone 4" longest or loudest, and pop quizzes for goodies. Lame goodies though.

Waiting in the "holding area" until they'll let us in into the registration counter hall.

Why should it matter if you already have an iPhone 4 and still lining up? Screw those people, there's a group of 8 of us we were not hesitant to take out and use our iPhone 4.


No free bumper cases available.

Here with satinblack, beavis68, jiro1986, yuvanesh and his cousin, and another MacStudio guy, Aris. Saw Smashpop and Corez here too. No plan on meeting up anyone else but am welcome to the thought.

Ours are 3073, 3074 and around that figure. Already in the holding area.

For those in the later numbers, don't worry they're letting propel in by batches of 60 per entry. They're 60 counters open. Should be fast.

It's by the line. They'll issue the number as you approach the entrance. You can bring in a guest with you.

Windows 7 running on iPhone 4! only at the Maxis launch, folks!

5 minutes to launch! Crazy crowd here!

First buyer already in the hall at the counter.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Sep 23 2010, 11:57 PM

Were going in! They're calling the next 80.

Pics up in my tweets. Met long gone friends and made new ones. A bit more relaxed now. Meeting up in Starbucks Gardens if anyone wanna try FaceTime.

Good to finally meet you!

Awesome post by Bontaku as well, I couldn't have posted it any better, very well written and packed with info. If there's anything I can stress out, get there as early as you physically can. If the crowd today is any indication, it will be packed!

Among us, we've amassed and purchased 10 iPhone 4s of varying sizes.

Congratulations to the new owners, please treat your iPhones responsibly, learn as much as you can, and register your ownership at the iPhone Owners thread. I'm available for FaceTime if you'd like to test that feature out. I'm also available for sim-cutting.

There's a flaw in the purchasing system. If you know how to use the system to your advantage, one of our group managed to buy 6 units one-shot outright, with 6 individual numbers.

The line? Snaked past two floors until the freaking parking lot! I can only sympathize with those lining up in the stuffy hot place.

You can. You can bring in a guest to accompany you. I used the excuse that I'm the principle line owner accompanying the other person who has the queue number in hand as my supplementary line. Went in, snap a few pics and now all of us out with these 10 units in hand.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Sep 24 2010, 02:05 AM

The folks I met at the launch: Jiro1986, beavis68, ksc_3688, yuvanesh, satinblack, Corez, prasys, ....it's like a huge LYN gathering! Fantastic experience! 

The line as it was at 1:30am, and it gets even longer as we left!







Crazy!

I hope now people can understand why we're stern on noobs here on the iPhone subforum itself. They're hogging the "resources" here, a.k.a the technically inclined folks who are valuable in providing help and info on how to manage iPhones properly. At the very least, like what you mentioned, is these folks should do their bloody homework first before going to the counter, and in the case of this forum, do their bloody homework before asking stupid questions like "why speaker one side louder than the other?" type.

It's the typical lazy ass Malaysian mentality that expect spoonfeeding to part and parcel of the receipt of the phone, or in the case of this forum, part of their self-entitled privileges when they ask a question here, they expect to be answered fast or promptly, without even having the decency of finding out the answers first themselves.

Which is why, during the first iPhone 2G was out, there were'nt such nonsenses like this. Those who dared to buy and own an iPhone 2G, KNOWS what they're getting into, and in turn, becomes the valuable "resource" themselves as they grew into the whole iPhone ecosystem. There's no such things as those idiotic questions we're getting these days, with constant spamming, and constant asking of questions that had already been answered and stickied. Constant whining and pleading for answers, not unlike a freaking baby chicks nganga mulut asking to be spoonfed.

I totally agree and echo your sentiments here, I agree that only once these folks know what they're getting into then they should only get it. Owning an iPhone comes with the responsibility of at least arming oneself with the basic knowledge of the iPhone first, not just crashing headfirst into it, and spamming the forum here with inane, redundant questions. The victim of all of this? The eager, honest folks who wants to learn more about the iPhone with valid questions, the seniors/veterans who had to put up with these nonsense by these noobs, and ultimately, the mods and staff of LYN moderating team who had to clean up this shit every single time a typical freaking noob decides to nganga his mulut and starts spewing redundant questions and expect answers henceforth.

I do my part on keeping the forum functioning as it should be, it's becoming a laborious task as more and more of these lazy noobs gets into the iPhone ecosystem here and care not about arming themselves with the proper knowledge and simply ask stupid redundant questions.

You must be new. I've been doing that since iPhone 3G. Or your phone isn't that desirable, or you're willing to jump in late. Either way, you're missing out on a unique experience. Personally, I've no qualms queueing if I'm there with friends, time passes by when the 8 of us are together.

That is unavoidable, I was subjected to queueing myself when I get mine from official Apple Store in Australia.

1 - IF there are a 100 customers ahead of you and if they miraculously can finish serving a customer 5 minutes at a time, you still have to wait 500 minutes, how many hours is that?

2 - In reality, they needed more than 5 minutes. Cards need to be verified and charged, Terms and Conditions needed to be clarified, and your details and plans hooked to your iPhone 4 needed to be activated. Hence the long time waiting. Unless :-

3 - You're the "pay and go" type. I am. Apple Store employees love me because they dont have to explain every single details on how to work the iPhone 4 because I am responsible enough to learn it myself, or know where to look for answers without bugging them and slowing down the line. I know how and where to settle my plan details, or have settled them myself. In this Maxis case, do them a favour, study the plan, ask a staff before you're at the counter signing up so that you disturb him minimally. That way, you're doing a favor to the rest of the folks behind the line.

Bottom line, it is unavoidable. Malaysians are the lazy type, wanna get spoonfed for everything. They dont bother finding out until they need to, and when they do, they bother the hell out of the rest and basically being selfish to the rest by taking up other people's time. Unless Malaysians change their mindset and take their own initiative, you'll never get this process speed up.