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Then there was 6

As in the 6th incarnation of the iphone that is.  iphone not i phone or any other phony name would do.  Or could it?  I mean it is phony?  Whatever the case the phone needs one.  As in the case.  To prevent it from shattering on the tile floor day 1.  Else you will have to get rid of the tiles in your house and switch to carpet.  But that is phoney baloney now.

Regardless it was reported that four days prior to the launch four people lined up outside the Apple store in NY to buy the device.  On day 3 it was discovered it was some dead homeless people.   Whether they were originally in line and ended up dead is being investigated.  Also curiously it is now being debated if they were indeed homeless.  The tell tale clues were the 'Will wash car for iphone 6' ads that were found on their person.

Homeless people are now able to look up cool or hot spots to chill for the night with a new app.  That is latest for the model 6.  It gets warm in your hand as you get closer to a clincher of a homeless spot (less crowding, no bad odors etc and no patrol man) by using advanced GPS and a homeless hangout finder beacon.  The app is aptly called 'Homer'.

Another app also alerts you to half empty beer bottles along sidewalks that can be used for a variety of purposes including imbibing what the half left over is and then to collect the processed half.  It is called recycling.  So the app is called 'Recycle'.

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