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$120,000,000 lost productivity from iphone 4g lines
- mikecane 16y agoA real big stretch. Overnight hours normally spent sleeping shouldn't be factored in. And how many people took a vacation day for this?
- melling 16y agoMuch more is lost due to Hacker News. :-)
- paulgb 16y agoFortunately, much is gained as well.
- alanh 16y agoiPhone 4. There is no such thing as iPhone 4G.
- ghshephard 16y agoWell, the problem with this theory is that a fairly significant portion of the line crowd had their ipads/iphones and were working away. I, personally, cleared out a significant portion of my Jira queue, and triaged (and responded) to pretty much the entire day's email while I was in Line in Palo Alto. It was actually a very productive 90 minutes for me.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoPresuming the time would have been spent elsewhere productively?
- gcheong 16y agoThey'll make it up with multi-tasking.
- ddemchuk 16y agoHmmm, I would imagine the average hourly wage of 6000 people would be much lower than $50/hour....
- contagionhealth 16y agoWas looking at the line outside Oakfield Mall yesterday and asked an advisor if anyone had done this calc. Thanks.
- cwilson 16y agoHmm, so as humans we should be productive every day, all day? Didn't realize if I took part of my day to wait for something I was excited about meant I was doing something wrong!
- jeffreyg 16y agoI don't have the link, but apparently that's nothing compared to the time lost when google made their logo an interactive pacman game