Scenes from an iPhone line
Steve Safran June 29th, 2007
Stopped by the Apple store in Chestnut Hill, MA (just outside Boston) to see how the line for the iPhone looked. As of 12:35 ET, there were 42 people in a surprisingly quiet line. Many of them were in lawn chairs, and at least one was someone’s kid who clearly wasn’t there to buy an iPhone. Still, he quietly played his PSP. A few security guards stood around looking a bit too imposing. There is a giant iPhone mockup in the window of the store. I asked a clerk “When does the craziness start?” “It already has,” he said. Sales begin at 6 tonight.
Apple store, Chestnut Hill, MA. (Taken with my decidedly non-iPhone cameraphone.)
Update from Cory: Apple has been very reluctant to hand out devices in advance. Look, here are the Digg guys in line, and Stephen Colbert even resorted to begging on the air.
Update: Did you see this? Fox reporter’s microphone swiped during iPhone line live shot.
5 Comments Add your own
1. ! | June 29th, 2007 at 10:24 am
looks nothing like the parents who crawled all over one another to get cabbage patch or picachu (as always, my spelling is suspect).
2. Zack | June 29th, 2007 at 10:33 am
The Apple Store in Providence had about 30 people in line outside the mall store. It was around 11:00am. An Apple employee told me they were allowed in at 6a.m.
3. David Johnson | June 29th, 2007 at 10:57 am
i was delighted to see an ap photo of robert scoble and his son in an iphone line on the front page of the wapo express this morning.
scobleizer.com
and
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/express/pdfs/EXPRESS_06292007.pdf
4. discreet_chaos | June 29th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Perhaps it’s just me, but I’m only seeing three(?) females in the photo and one of them isn’t in line.
5. lr | June 29th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
okay, i live in Arkansas, (yeah, ARKANSAS!) and there were about 20 people in line last night outside of an at&t store. we only have an at&t store every other block in this town (alltel HQ is here…), so i don’t see what all the fuss is about.
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