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If you're Apple, there's good news, and there's bad news.

iPhone 5: The wait is over

First, the good news: You sold a bunch of iPhone 5s, and people lined up or ordered online. We received more than 20 iReports from excited customers showing us overnight campouts and people who queued for several days. Veenu Aishwarya of Philadelphia went to an Apple store just to experience the scene.

Veenu: "It was my first such event to witness an iPhone launch at an Apple store. Although, I was not in line for the iPhone, I was equally excited just to see all the smiling faces and the level of energy and enthusiasm among Apple fans."

Some CNN.com readers said they are happy with their Apple products.

Xeres: "My iPhone 5 is waiting for me at home. No waiting in a line needed."

icharliem2: "I'd used Apple products for 30 years. Never had a major problem. A lot of times what you get is more than what you can see. Never heard many people who switched to Apple products say they're bad. Only those who've never owned one. Are they the best in all things ? I don't think so, but their integration of hardware and software is better than anyone else and keeps getting better."

And now, the bad news. We saw quite a bit of backlash among our commenters.

Eddie Francis: "I hope the people in the photo are happier human beings now, seeing they just bought a phone. What an achievement."

What would animals, or aliens, say about us as a species?

AnywhereElse: " 'Humans can be so silly.' –Pigeons worldwide observing the Apple lines"

maxemoose36: " 'Silly ... for me to poop on!' –Triumph (the insult comic dog)"

agent13: "My name is Zoltar from the planet Ux. Upon visiting your lovely planet all the locals told me I should try this Apple, that it was awesome. You were right. It's very delicious, except for the outer case. It tends to get stuck in my teeth."

A debate took place about other companies' products.

justcause1: "I am an iPhone user, generation 4, my wife bought her Galaxy S3 and I can tell you it is light years ahead of the iPhone 5, now wait, there is a Galaxy S4 coming out in February. It is going to make iPhone 5 look like old technology. You wonder why Apple is having a fit over the Samsung smartphone success, Apple is all marketing."

DingGate: "I think it's packaged better than my old Android. I can pick up my girlfriend's iPhone and figure out how to do pretty much whatever I need. Most people are lost when they pick up my phone. Same with PC vs. Macs. I could always figure out a Mac pretty easily. I could do more on my PC, but I had to learn how to do it."

This of course led to some arguing about the arguing.

Keva Phipps: "I don't understand the Apple hatred. If you don't like them, just move on. Sitting on a message board spewing about a product doesn't exactly make you a 'winner,' people. If we want to wait in lines for iPhones, midnight movies, or TV's on Black Friday, what's it to you? Why does it even matter? Answer that question."

breakmyrustycage: "What's it to me? I get enjoyment out of watching you make a fool of yourself by overspending on an already outdated technology while all the time thinking you are on the cutting edge. Pick up a Samsung GS3 instead and you'll have more cred."

Enough of the bad; now for the ugly. Readers mostly groused about the new iOS6 maps app.

Users: Apple iOS 6 maps are a mess

Several readers referred to a joke coined during the iPhone 4 era's so-called antenna-gate.

casprd: "Come on now. There is nothing wrong with the maps. You're just holding the phone wrong."

This reader was not at all impressed.

Chindokae: "Yesterday I updated two iPads to IOS 6. At first I thought the new Maps app was some kind of practical joke. In Google Maps I can see my apartment windows and 70-cm satellite dish. On Apple maps the whole city is just a multicolored blob of very bad 100-meter resolution imagery 10-20 years out of date. This is the most ridiculous excuse for a GIS app I have ever seen."

Nicholas Weiner: "Apple was way too obsessed with distancing themselves from Google for their maps software, and have pretty much confirmed my commitment to Android devices for the foreseeable future."

Is it because of Steve Jobs?

sidart: "iMiss Steve Jobs! Without him, it's getting messy."

The man who jumped out of a monorail and into a Bronx Zoo tiger pit became part of the discussion. Zoo staff used a fire extinguisher to keep away a nearby tiger; the man is in critical condition. Readers wondered what got the man there in the first place.

Tazkven: "Must had been using Apple's new iOS6 maps on the iPhone 5."

commongrnd: "Siri: 'Concession stands are to your lower right, please exit the car now.' "

One reader had a theory about Apple's "rubber band" effect, which gives apps an elastic scrolling feel. It's a thought-provoking point.

Ed Edvil: "Not a techie, but I suspect the distorted maps got the effect from Apple's 'rubber band' patent. They won the lawsuit against Samsung on it. As I see it, stretching a rubberband will have a bouncing effect, but stretching landscapes won't do. Bridges will collapse, roads will curve because they're not elastic, the 3-D topology goes wacky with rubber bands."

So what fruit is Apple now?

PUNEET KUMAR: "Time to rename Apple as Orange. The Amazing iOS6 Maps gone horribly wrong. Steve Jobs would have never released this app at present condition."

akdesert: "As a former Apple fan, I think Lemon is more appropriate. A company driven by greed and desire to destroy competitors is not visionary. They are masterful at marketing and the sheeple eat it up. If they released new iPhones every month, I imagine many of these sheeple would buy every new release. Apple is laughing all the way to the bank."

What do you think? What's your take on smartphone technology? Comment below or sound off on video via CNN iReport.

Compiled by the CNN.com moderation staff. Some comments edited for length or clarity.