“Long, snaking lines formed outside Apple Inc stores in Asia early on Friday as fans flocked to buy the new iPhone X, a turnout that contrasts with the more lackluster launches for the past two iterations of the premium smartphone,” Tom Westbrook and Pei Li report for Reuters. “Strong initial demand underscores Apple’s upbeat sales forecast for the year-end holiday shopping season, provided just hours before iPhone X sales began.”
“In Australia, around 400 people queued outside Apple’s flagship store in central Sydney to pay A$1,579 ($1,218) for the 10th-anniversary model, a glass-and-stainless-steel device that Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook billed as ‘the biggest leap forward since the original iPhone,'” Westbrook and Li report. “‘It’s beautiful bro, what a feeling, I‘m excited,’ builder Bishoy Behman, 18, told Reuters after picking up two iPhone X as the first in line. He said he camped outside the store for a week before paying to improve his place in the queue overnight.”
“The firm opened pre-orders on Oct. 27 and has said demand was ‘off the charts,'” Westbrook and Li report. “In Apple’s Omotesando store in Tokyo, some 550 people were waiting in a line stretching to around 600 meters. ‘I‘m going home, and after having a rest, I’d like to have fun (with the phone),’ said first-in-line Yamaura, a 21-year-old college student who spent six days in the queue.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Come on, UPS! It’s iPhone X Day!
MDN Have you checked UPS for “out for delivery”? 🙂
Yes, we are watching the nearby trucks on the map as they move about with our iPhone X units inside and wishing we could go intercept them!
Apple has asked all UPS drivers “out for delivery” to return their undelivered iPhone X shipments to the San Francisco store where three hundred were stolen in a daring raid last night.
Deniro retired from spectacular night grabs because he could no longer take the “Heat” … 😉
The thefts happened mid-day Wednesday PDT, not at night.
The reference was to a movie, not actual events. But thanks just the same ..,
I wonder how much stock these stores have. Might be riots..J/K. My 2 are out for delivery.
Well a line from Sydney to Shanghai will take some time to get through, I hope the people in the ocean are good at treading water 😉