Natalie Weinstein
The queue for the Apple iPhone 3G began to form on Friday -- an entire week before the device goes on sale.
The queue outside of Apple's Fifth Avenue store, covered first by GearDiary and then Engadget, apparently hasn't been formed by iPhone co-dependents, though.
It's instead made up of a group of people who may want to 1) set a world's record for standing in queue to buy a product and 2) have a social-agricultural-political message they want the world to hear. According to News.com blogger Caroline McCarthy, "Waiting for Apples are hoping to set a Guinness World Record as well as spread the buzz about sustainable agriculture and are waiting in line with a solar-power generator, a bunch of yoga mats, a compost bin full of hungry worms and a soundtrack of the Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings And Food."
According to Apple 2.0 blog, they may be interested in turning the White House lawn into an organic garden and they may be planning to buy iPhones for the presidential nominees.
The seemingly ad hoc group is certainly savvy in deciding to use the iPhone 3G to garner some publicity. However, to be perfectly honestly, most mainstream journalists feel more comfortable interviewing gadget nuts rather than alternative souls hoping to use the media to change the world.
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