No. I'm suggesting that the media manipulation is a negative. That Apple customers actually haven't caught onto this is yet another negative.
The modern world is amazingly capable of huge feats of fulfillment without demanding that the hordes line up for the cameras at 5am. That practice is a ridiculous anachronism.
You're over thinking it. The people who line up at 5am are doing it because for them it's amusing to be involved in the event, not because they're victims of mass hysteria.
Sure, you or I might fine it strange that people do this but so what? What you've written smacks of the tired depiction of Apple customers as marketing victims.
The modern world is amazingly capable of huge feats of fulfillment without demanding that the hordes line up for the cameras at 5am. That practice is a ridiculous anachronism.