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On Nov. 3, the new iPhone X was released into the wild. Chaos and commotion ensued. Whether it was the iPhone “10” or “ex” did not matter to the hundreds of people standing in line outside the Apple store at the Stanford Shopping Center at four in the morning. I wasn’t one of those people. I thought I had outsmarted all of them, sliding into the preorder, making the first impulse buy of my lifetime. I was excited and invigorated, looking forward to waltzing into the Apple store in the afternoon, past all of the agitated, cold people in line. At the store, ready to pick up my new phone, I heard these dreaded words uttered: “It seems there’s a problem with your order.” The phone had been shipped to my “home” address, somewhere on campus. Slightly devastated, I returned to my dorm and decided to wait until the UPS delivery made it to my residence. Hours later, still no luck. The tracking information, which I refreshed constantly, still displayed “out for delivery” … until it didn’t. Sudde

Frame of reference Opinion by Maika Isogawa Nov. 9, 2017, 1:00 a.m. On Nov. 3, the new iPhone X was released into the wild. Chaos and commotion ensued. Whether it was the iPhone “10” or “ex” did not matter to the hundreds of people standing in line outside the Apple store at the Stanford Shopping Center at four in the morning. I wasn’t one of those people. I thought I had outsmarted all of them, sliding into the preorder, making the first impulse buy of my lifetime. I was excited and invigorated, looking forward to waltzing into the Apple store in the afternoon, past al

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