Masses lined up outside of the Apple store Thursday night ahead of Friday’s release of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ and created quite the scene on Boylston Street last night, attracting the interest of passersby, posing for photos, and even accepting the generosity of strangers, including a duo who showed up to hand out cold pizza to the crowd.

Many were there to be the first to get there hands on the new iPhone, but others seemed to be there for other reasons. I overheard one young man talking to an older couple (his parents maybe?) about hoping to get an unlocked version of the phone, SIM cards, and possibly jail-breaking the device to figure out its capabilities. Others, and I mean the older men and women (and even one family with a small child) could have been there to save spots that they could sell later as has been happening in other places.

First in line? A young man who started camping out at 10 pm on Sunday night named John McIntosh who came to the Boston Apple store from New York. McIntosh was second in line for the last iPhone release and wanted to get to the store as early as possible to make sure he was first this year, so he arrived on Sunday and has been sitting on the sidewalk since (although he has gone to get food, use the bathroom, etc.).

While I was sitting with him on the sidewalk, people of all ages kept coming up to him to ask how long he’d been outside the store. Surrounded by a bag of clothes and goods, a type of wooden art project that reminded me of the little statues/structures from the show True Detective, his mobile phone, and blankets, McIntosh seemed at ease. The guard at the door of the Apple Store knew him by name, and, at one point, an Apple Store employee tossed him a pudding cup as she was leaving the store.

I asked McIntosh what he does. “I do stuff like this,” he said.

No one else had come out to line up until yesterday, McIntosh claimed. For a few days he was the only one sitting outside the store.

At times, McIntosh acted as if he was keeping state secrets when it comes to mastering the art of waiting outside the Apple Store. When I asked him how he kept his phone charged, he said, “I have a lot of tricks, and I know a lot of ‘inside intel’ that I’m not privy to share.”

He said he would be getting the 128 GB iPhone 6+, but became more evasive with his answers as our conversation continued. When I asked him if he was a fan of Apple, he accused me of leading him with my questions; when I asked him what drove him to come out and wait for days for the iPhone, McInstosh said, “I don’t want to answer that question.”

When I asked if he was going to keep his new iPhone or sell it, he dismissed me to talk to someone else and again said, “I’m not privy to tell.”

Okay then.