“Seven years ago, Jeremy Bachrach, then a 17-year-old high school student, waited in line outside a mall in Thousand Oaks, Calif., with his 12-year-old brother Harry. They’d been there for more than 24 hours to get their hands on Apple’s original iPhone,” Ben Fox Rubin reports for CNET. “‘I was pretty stoked,’ recalled Bachrach, now a real-estate investment analyst. ‘At the time it met nearly all my expectations.'”
“It was the start of what’s become an annual tradition: Fanboys lining up for hours — or sometimes days — at their local Apple store to be one of the first to walk away with the latest iPhone,” Rubin reports. “That waiting-in-line-to-buy-a-new-Apple-gadget phenomenon, a spectacle few other companies can boast of, underscores the appeal and importance of the iPhone. There will undoubtedly be lines when Apple unveils the iPhone 6, the eighth generation in the franchise, sometime in the fall.”
“In a field where the term ‘game-changer’ is trite, few dispute that it can rightfully be applied to Apple’s marquee product, which has been hailed as the one, the true ‘Jesus phone’,” Rubin reports. “In the past seven years, Apple has sold more than half a billion iPhones… ‘As far as disruptions go, this is as big as it gets and as fast as it gets,’ said Horace Dediu, founder of tech-market analyst firm Asymco. ‘The PC did disrupt a lot of industries, but it took 20, 30 years. The iPhone did it in less than 5.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: 7-time Day One iPhone owners here and, with any luck, 8-time Day Oners within a few months! We scored our original iPhones at Apple Store Crossgates in Albany, New York back on June 29, 2007. We still have our very first iPhones, too!
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