“One week after the Australian launch of Apple’s much-anticipated 3G iPhone, locals keen to buy the device are still queuing outside the company’s only Sydney retail store,” Renai LeMay reports for ZDNet Australia.
“Around 40 or more people were queuing outside the George Street, Sydney store this afternoon,” LeMay reports.
“The continuing queues come as iPhone stocks quickly dried up in Optus stores around Australia, with most stores taking names from customers happy to wait for Apple to allocate more handsets to the mobile carrier,” LeMay reports.
More in the full article here.
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There is still a line at the Manhattan Village (Manhattan Beach, CA)… It’s right next to my lunch spot, so I look at it almost everyday. I went by at 11:00am, 12:30pm, and 3:00pm to see if it was just a lunch time thing. 30-40 people all day long, regardless of what time it is.
Streets of Southpointe Mall: line is 50 strong
All Rogers outlets in Canada: 0 people in line
I’ll be up early tomorrow morning queueing…or however you spell it.
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Scored a Zune last night from a guy selling them from his trunk.
Said he would shoot me if I didn’t buy one.
So I have him the $3 he wanted.
Showed it to my girlfriend.
Now seeking new girlfriend.
There was a 4 to 8 person deep line in Apple’s local store yesterday when I was there at noon time. They had many of the store employees working with people while they others stood on line.
Anyone think the rise in UFO sightings recently is because aliens are here to get their hands on the iPhone?
Forget just Earth, the iPhone is galactic!!
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I just went to my o2 shop in Birkenhead, UK. When I got there, six people were queuing in front of me, all wanting iPhones. By the time I got served, there were seventeen people behind me, all waiting to get an iPhone. I had a great chat with an elderly gent in the queue who was upgrading his 1st gen iPhone for the 3G, and giving his old one to his wife. He said he liked the iPhone “because it’s easy”. There were 6 sales staff working the floor, and apart from the piss poor ‘Gateway’ IE software that was crashing as they were trying to sign people up, things were running pretty smoothly. Steve (Manager, nice guy), said it had been like this all week, and they had on average 250 call a day from people enquiring about the iPhone. Carphone Warehouse, 50 yards away, was exactly the same – lots of people queuing for an iPhone. I got one of the last 16GB models they had for that day.
This isn’t a made up story, or even an exaggeration. I’ve just returned to my work from the o2 store, and it’s only just sinking in. Apple are literally taking over the telco world under their competitors noses. Sure, they’re not as big as Nokia, but all the same, I have never seen this much buzz about a new phone. Quality will always triumph over quantity. Seeing scallies (that’s hoodies to all you Londoners, criminals to everyone else in the world) coming in and wanting to BUY an iPhone is quite a sight. I even got chatting to a few of them, and I even had the courage to show them some of the Apps that I had on my iPhone (1st gen). They were completely blown away by Tap Tap and PangeaVR, and they all decided that they were going to get one. Brilliant!
I can’t believe this. As a Mac user for 15 years it is an absolute pleasure to watch this masterful move by Apple to put an Apple product in the hands of pretty much everyone.
Oh yeh, fuck you Micros**t. Love from me.
Short line, long line, as long as there are lines at all that means Apple is still selling iPhones constantly and consistantly, all day long. The real numbers are going to be staggering when they are released.
Most people I know are “waiting for the lines to go away” before they buy one (I am doing the same). I’m about to cave in and go wait in line, as are some of the people I know, only to add to the lines. Expect lines for quite a while.
“All Rogers outlets in Canada: 0 people in line”
That’s because no Rogers stores that I’ve been to HAS any iPhones left to sell.
One location I called had to wait for days before their second shipment came in, and even then, they only received the 8gb, when I want a 16gb. *&^%$#!
Gonna try again today…I have 6 stores lined up that I’ll be visiting.
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I did the 5am Queue outside the T-Life store in Melbourne on the morning they went on sale. At 5am I was 53rd. I got my 16GB Black one and love it.
In San Francisco it s the same thing every day when I walk by around 1PM there are 100 or more lined up for iPhones… This is waaaaay bigger than the original launch.
I was wondering, with Australia being in the southern hemisphere, do the queues wind clockwise or counterclockwise around the block when viewed from above?
Did any body read yesterday about a stupid “analyst” that said that maybe there were only 450,000 iphone sold during the weekend and that Apple was reporting 1 million sold was false? may be we should send that guy to those sites so he can actually sees that all the iPhones were sold out from stores.
Microsoft does counts every shipment as a “sold”.
I’ve visited the lenox mall store in Atlanta every day this week. There are still over 50 people in line at any given time. I’ll be getting mine once the lines are back inside the store instead of twisting through the mall.
The most interesting thing about the apparent success of the iPhone is just how much Apple played a game of misdirection against its competitors.
For several years, we’ve done nothing but read about one iPod Killer after another produced by every electronics company under the sun whilst simultaneously reading about iTunes Store Killers from every online service wannabe.
The genius of Apple or the stupidity of the competition (or any shade of grey inbetween) is the way everyone carried on looking at the iPod and ignored what it was likely to become: Apple can now sell a subsidised (in the UK, the 8GB is free on a £45.00 monthly plan and a 16GB is only £59.00), easy-to-understand, easy-to-use, easy-to-extend media player/phone/mobile computing platform that leverages the iPod’s dominance and brand recognition as a media player.
In the meantime, the competition will now have to scramble around to build an iPhone Killer. The problem is that they are effectively building them out of chewing gum and bits of string.
You can build an easy-to-use phone so long as you understand the fundamentals of user interfaces – but most of them don’t; you can build an effective media player, but it helps if you haven’t already lost the marketplace; and you can build a mobile computing platform so long as you have an elegant development environment and an equally elegant distribution mechanism not to mention a consistent target platform.
When you add up all of the issues facing Apple’s mobile phone competition, their strategic positioning is – to be blunt – appalling; expect Apple to be bringing in over $20 billion in annual iPhone revenues (even using its 8-quarter amortisation system) by the end of FY2011 (September 2011).
This week’s episode of Nature’s Abnormalities, “Moron’s in the wild”.
“Moron’s in the wild”
Geez, I ask a simple scientific question and I get insults.
“I was wondering, with Australia being in the southern hemisphere, do the queues wind clockwise or counterclockwise around the block when viewed from above?”
Perhaps we’ll know once the lines are hurricane size.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect#Length_scales_and_the_Rossby_number
Ampar,
That gave me a headache. Way too technical for a moron in the wild.
@Funky Chicken: Any luck? No Rogers I went to had phones. Lot of dismal staff tho.
“Geez, I ask a simple scientific question and I get insults.”
No, you get an apt analytical description.
I think it is disgusting how Apple are controlling supply to create even more hype. Here in Spain we still dont have any iPhones to speak of and no white models at all until the autumn….
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“No, you get an apt analytical description.”
Sonny, you sure are full of yourself. Among other things.