“Apple announced iPhone 4S will be available in Hong Kong IFC Apple store at 7 am this Friday, and the news had triggered at least four hundreds of people queued up from yesterday morning,” Herman Lai reports for M.I.C. Gadget.
“But things went ugly outside the Apple store,” Lai reports. “At around 7-8 tonight, dozens of polices were ordered to evacuate the crowd of queuers.”
Lai reports, “The situation was chaotic, people everywhere, most of them don’t know where to go.”
Read more in the full article, with photos and video, here.
Demand is waning…yeah right..
Basically, Apple does not know what to do with all these unsold phones.
If at least one wandering visitor would one day enter an Apple Store to buy something, this would be huge surprise to the day-dreaming staff.
This would make Apple Store at least a bit closer to the insanely popular Microsoft Stores with these lucrative brown
ZunesWindows Phone phones being swept off of the shelves like every second.400 people queued up?! Hmmm… Apple obviously selling Justin Bieber concert tickets, right MS?! There was the mention of “scalpers” afterall!
Would UK’s
Siri-man“Daniel” mention “tout” instead?It’s the Occupy Apple movement.
At least “four hundreds of people” and “dozens of polices”? Wow, that’s a lots… 😉