Here’s what the line for Apple’s iPad 2 and the new white iPhone 4 looked like outside Apple Store Ginza in Tokyo, Japan on April 28, 2011:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “jim” for the heads up.]
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Finally..a rice-colored iPhone!
That wasn’t funny the first time.
I don’t know what the big deal is about lines many blocks long. This always happens, especially for Android introductions. No, …wait! Oh, never mind!
Wow that wobbly video made me seasick. It almost made me think they were videoing an earthquake aftershock.
That has to scare the daylights out of Apple’s competitors.
No lines required for buy one POS and get one or two more POS free, with Android POS also FREE.
I remember well the headline articles about iPhone being such a spectacular failure in Japan.
Here’s a refresher in case you missed it: http://digg.com/news/technology/iPhone_Popularity_In_Japan_FAIL
Well, these don’t tell the full story, though. Although iPhones and iPods are common here, they’re nowhere NEAR as ubiquitous as in the States. Japanese brand flip phones are still everywhere. And the selection is pretty amazing.
You have to remember, that lining up is practically a sport in Japan.
Are they sure that was the line for the Apple Store and not the new BOGO sushi bar they opened next door to it.
Hey, how come nobody tried to cut in line? Oh, wait! This is in Japan, not the U.S.
i know what too shout out loud to make them clear the line…..but i dare not to say =)
What? Big breasted American women naked next door?
Nice name by the way.
“Nothing sounds quite like an 8-0-8!…”
That was one monster of a line. I must have been incredibly luck yesterday afternoon when I dropped by the Shibuya Apple Store at around 1:40 and walked out 18 minutes later with both a 16GB and a 32GB iPad 2 (I’m certain of the time because of the texts between my wife and me).
Very lucky indeed! Congratulations on your excellent timing and purchases. Enjoy!
it still amazes me to see the lines.
Too bad US stock analysts are too distracted by investments in Microsoft and Rim to notice.
Go AAPL!
And in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at one small dealer in a mall, a queue exceeding 1000 people, half of whom were disappointed.