{"id":6301,"date":"2016-10-17T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=6301"},"modified":"2016-10-17T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T19:22:28","slug":"linked-iphone-7-lines-start-growing-ahead-of-fridays-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/10\/17\/linked-iphone-7-lines-start-growing-ahead-of-fridays-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;iPhone 7 Lines Start Growing Ahead of Friday&#8217;s Launch&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3941,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.macrumors.com\\\/2016\\\/09\\\/14\\\/iphone-7-lines-start-ahead-of-friday-launch&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250719075451\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.macrumors.com\\\/2016\\\/09\\\/14\\\/iphone-7-lines-start-ahead-of-friday-launch\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 06:34:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-21 19:53:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-21 19:53:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/09\/14\/iphone-7-lines-start-ahead-of-friday-launch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via MacRumors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Old post (I\u2019m a little behind on this linked stuff) but the comments on this post just go to show how different the Apple community is from 10 years ago. Lining up for a Mac OS X Software release every 18 months used to be what you did and today, people who do this get made fun of. Better yet, most people lined up are just doing it to sell their spot on craigslist an hour before the device goes on sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via MacRumors: Old post (I\u2019m a little behind on this linked stuff) but the comments on this post&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-10-17T19:22:28Z","apple_news_api_id":"3b842f7b-ac7e-4c25-bb44-6cf87620ae5d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-10-17T19:22:29Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AO4Qve6x-TCW7RGz4diCuXQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1DD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8522,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2021\/05\/27\/linked-romes-flagship-apple-store\/","url_meta":{"origin":6301,"position":0},"title":"Linked: Rome\u2019s Flagship Apple Store","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"May 27, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Via MacStories: I'm writing this linked-post a few hundred feet from the Carnegie Library Apple Store in DC, a store that opened a few years ago I am seeing today for the first time. 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I honestly had no clue\u2026.I really should open a web browser more often and also he linked me to this post from TechCrunch (when did Darrell start\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6970,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/08\/14\/linked-fuck-facebook\/","url_meta":{"origin":6301,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;F*** Facebook&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via DaringFireball: I\u2019ve made exceptions a handful of times over the years, but as a general rule I refuse to link to anything on Facebook either, for the same reasons as Dave. Last week I linked to screenshots of a Facebook post to avoid linking to the original. 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