Yeah, I remember waiting in line to get MW2, the first and thus far only time I waited in line to actually get something. But like you said, there will be a new batch and if what I have seen and read is correct then there does appear to be any terrible shortages.
I went to the Apple Store at around 10:30 this morning and they were out of the iPhone I was planning on buying. Who else is selling it today? I called Wal-Mart and they said they don't even carry it. AT&T won't carry it until Tuesday.
I called the RadioShack and Wal-Mart near me in Missouri City and they're not carrying it. I might just keep trying the Apple Store. The guy there said they would be getting another shipment either later today or tomorrow.
I don't know about "small minority", but I do work with a someone who has the same issue as you. I should note, however, that her boyfriend is a MAJOR Apple hater....and she thinks he's really cool...soooo that could possibly be contributing to her apparent dislike for her iPhone. :grin:
I just heard that the line at the Apple Store on Michigan Ave here in Chicago was 6 city blocks long this morning!
I just left the galleria and saw Connor Barwin standing at the end of the line. I can't believe he's willing to endure that wait for a phone.
Six city blocks? People are strange. I can only surmise people like waiting in lines like mindless Apple minions. Somebody should give them a free apple to eat while they wait.
Went to Baybrook to get a bumper this morning about 10:30. There were two lines outside the store, both with a considerable amount of people in them. I saw an Apple employee standing towards the end of the line talking to people and I asked if I would have to stand in line just to buy an accessory. She called the guy working the front of the line and they told me to just go on in. So..I walked in, got my bumper and left. Seemed like everyone was in good spirits...but they were also in the AC. Shipley's set up a table to serve donuts to those who were waiting.
Story: http://chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/06/lines-forming-as-iphone-4-hits-stores-today.html Several thousand people in a half-mile-long line waited outside the Apple store on North Michigan Avenue this morning to buy the new iPhone. Some had waited patiently all night long. Others impatiently all night long. But all felt compelled to be among the first with an iPhone 4. “Being one of the first to have it is probably my number one priority for standing in line. I hope it’s worth it,” said Daniel Mendoza, 25, who got in line about 4 a.m. “They got us out here like some animals in this heat,” he observed. At 9 a.m., some 3,000 people were lined up on the sidewalk from Erie Street at Michigan Avenue, then along Erie to St. Clair Street, then northward along St. Clair to Huron, and finally winding up at Huron and Michigan, outside the store. Two lines were set up: One for people who reserved the new iPhones for purchase, and the other for people taking their chances that the new devices would not be sold out by the time they got into the store. Apple employees moved up and down the line continuously this morning with cardboard boxes filled with water bottles and energy bars for the new gadget’s devoted clientele. Greg Glass only waited in the reserve line since 6 a.m. but said he had waited for six hours at a Tennessee Apple store when he purchased one of the iPhone’s previous models, the 3G. “It’s a really big upgrade from my old 3G,” Glass, 30, of Chicago, said of the new version. “It’s got a better camera…better software. Everything’s better. It’s a lot faster.” Steve Lieberman, who also had his iPhone 4 on reserve, concurred. “The display is phenomenally better. The ability to do video teleconferencing. It’s probably going to revolutionize the phone industry,” said Lieberman, 26, also of Chicago. Some, like Mendoza, complained that they had tried to make a reservation but couldn’t and were forced to wait in the longer general line. He said Apple personnel told him the ratio of people getting entry to the store from the reserve line compared to the general line was 10 to 1. “I just had to pay my first $5 (for parking) for an hour and a half. I’m sure I’m going to pay $15, $20 to be parking down here,” Mendoza added. Abdur Rafe, who arrived to the general line about 4 a.m., said he had waited in the long lines for previous versions of the iPhone outside the store. But he said today’s lines were worse. “This time they (Apple) managed it so badly. At least they should’ve put it on their Web site that the priority would be for pre-ordered items,” Rafe, 56, of Chicago, said.
I don't get people. I just logged on the day they went on sale and ordered my wife one. It arrived today at noon. Why do people subject themselves to this crap when you can pre-order them?
Probably because there were issues with pre-ordering. It has all obviously been a mess since the start.
