Dozens of people picked up on skid row by an enterprising man hoping to secure a load of new iPhones said they were left unpaid and stranded at the Pasadena Apple store. 
 
 Dominoe Moody, 43, said he was taken to Pasadena from a downtown Los Angeles homeless mission with several van-loads of people to wait in line overnight for the latest iPhone. 
 
 He was promised $40, but said he wasn’t paid because after handing the man the iPhone, the man was taken away by police when people became upset with him. 
 
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 “It didn’t go right. I stood out here all night,” he said, adding that he has no way to get home. 
 
 Pasadena Police Lt. Jason Clawson confirmed that a fight broke out about 9 a.m. as a man left the store with multiple iPhones. 
 
 Other people who were in line and hired by the man began fighting with him because they said they weren’t being paid enough, Clawson said. Police escorted the man from the scene, he said. 
 
 Most people weren’t paid by the man, Moody said, estimating that 70 to 80 were recruited and driven to the store to wait in line. 
 
 “They need to bring him back ... to pick up the people that he brought here,” said Vivian Fields, 49. “We have no way to get home.” 
 
 Fields, who is in a wheelchair, said she was approached by recruiters at a homeless shelter on skid row and arrived in Pasadena on Thursday about 7 p.m. She waited overnight at the store. 
 
 Pasadena police are not investigating the incident, Clawson said. 
 
 "It's not a police issue. It's a business issue," he said. 
 
 Clawson estimated that at least 200 people were outside of the store Friday morning waiting for it to open. The store hired two Pasadena police officers to keep control of the crowd, he said. 
 
 Police arrested George Westbrook, 23, of Compton and Lamar Mitchell, 43, of Pasadena for fighting in line outside of the store earlier Friday morning, he said. 
 
 The newest edition of Apple’s iconic phone is being released in various colors, including gold. Consumers also have the option of buying a less-expensive version with a plastic case. For the first time ever, the devices are being released in China on the same day they were made available everywhere else. 
 
 As in past iPhone releases, it appears some people are paying others to wait in line to buy the devices so they can be resold later for a profit. 
 
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 Apple’s ambitions to go head to head with Netflix and create its own lineup of exclusive movies and TV shows has long been the subject of much chatter and speculation. 
 
 But its first original TV project — a nonscripted series about apps — might sound more like a marketing campaign than a blockbuster production. 
 
 Apple announced on Thursday that it was working with the entertainer Will.i.am and two veteran TV executives, Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens, on a new show that will spotlight the app economy. 
 
 “One of the things with the app store that was always great about it was the great ideas that people had to build things and create things,” Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet software and services, said in an interview. 
 
 Details about the production are scant, and it was unclear how directly the show would promote or refer to Apple’s own app store. Executives declined to discuss specifics, such as financing, title, timeline, storylines, episode length or how people will watch the show. 
 
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 The series represents Apple’s first original effort outside the music category, where it has released programming such as Taylor Swift’s 1989 world tour, a docu-series with Vice about the local music scene and exclusive video interviews with artists like Adele. 
 
 Mr. Cue said that the new series did not signal a broader ambition by the company to greatly bolster its presence in original productions and streaming video. Last year, Apple was rumored to be exploring options for original programing and held talks with a number of big TV companies about offering a streaming television service. 
 
 “This doesn’t mean that we are going into a huge amount of movie production or TV production or anything like that,” Mr. Cue said. He added that the company would continue to explore exclusive projects similar to the series about apps or its push into music programming. 
 
 The new app show came about after Mr. Silverman brought the idea to Apple. Mr. Silverman, who is an executive producer of the TV series “Jane the Virgin,” “Marco Polo” and “Flaked,” worked with Mr. Cue nearly a decade ago when he was an executive producer of “The Office,” which was made available on iTunes. 
 
 “We thought it was perfectly tailored for Apple,” Mr. Cue said.
– Meet Greg Packer: He’s the first person in line for an iPad at New York City’s Fifth Avenue store, and he’s been waiting since Tuesday. But he’s not necessarily a big Mac fan…just a big fan of being first in line for things, from book releases (he nabbed Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince first) to product launches (he got he iPhone first, too). Business Insider goes so far as to call him, “The Same Stupid Guy Who’s First In Line For Everything.” Gawker notes the AP sent out a memo to reporters in 2003 warning them about the retired Long Island highway maintenance worker and his love of being quoted. But he’s not the only one excited about tomorrow’s iPad release: Stephen Colbert gave Apple some free product placement on last night’s show, where he demonstrated his favorite iPad app: vegetable chopper. Watch it in the gallery. ABC, which also gave the device lots of free publicity on Modern Family (clip in the gallery), will release an app that makes ad-supported episodes of 20 of its shows available for free on the iPad, according to the Hollywood Reporter.