Apple’s iPhone 5s and 5c are now on sale at retail and online stores around much of the world, and the general impression from consumers is one of high anticipation. In North America, lines are being reported at Apple retail locations everywhere, including what analyst and Apple watcher Gene Munster (via Mashable) calls Apple’s longest ever lineup for an iPhone device.
The line at Apple’s 5th Avenue NYC flagship store was 1,417 people long according to Munster at 8 AM ET, which is 83 percent longer than the iPhone 5 long at the same time. Munster’s been keeping tallies on iPhone queue length since 2008 with the iPhone 3G, and that line was 549 people long. The next-longest after the iPhone 5s/5c would be the iPhone 4, which attracted 1,300 to the flagship New York location.
Of course, Apple didn’t allow pre-orders for the iPhone 4, which is bound to drive more people to retail since they weren’t able to order early and just wait for the FedEx person to drop off their new device today. One good theory about why Apple didn’t offer pre-orders for iPhone 5s this time around is because of supply constraints, owing to the technical …read more
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Just when I getting the hang of my 4S