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Apple Store Opening
Tyson's Corner, Virginia
May 19, 2001
Roughly a year after the debut of the Washington Apple Pi
Unsteadicam™ at MacWorld New York City 2000, this
much-despised innovation returns. Exactly how long was the
line to the Apple Store? We took our Unsteadicam™ (a
Nikon CoolPix 990 still digital camera with the ability to
take lots of still photos real fast to simulate a video
clip, without sound) and walked most of the length of the
line, starting near the rear and walking within 100 feet of
the front. A middle section of around 150 feet was skipped
(because the camera stopped recording and saved its buffer).
You'll quickly see why it is called Unsteadicam™.
Requires QuickTime.
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We start our journey almost at the back of the
line. It is 9:30 a.m., and these patient souls
won't see the inside of the store for almost two
hours. (QuickTime, 5.9 megabytes, 40 seconds)
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After a brief gap of around 150 feet (the camera
stopped recording and saved the images to disk) we
pick up the trail again.. (QuickTime, 5.9
megabytes, 40 seconds)
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