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iPhone 4 Launch: 5th Ave Store Linewalk



When they say 'the line is around the block' -- well, this is the line, that's the block, and this is what it means. Hundreds of people -- much bigger than the iPad launch line or the 3GS, by my estimation -- lined up around the 5th Avenue block of the Apple Store, waiting for the iPhone 4.

Back in a second with the video of the first walk-in customers.

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When they say 'the line is around the block' -- well, this is the line, that's the block, and this is what it means. Hundreds of people...
 

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Dramirez112

Bunch of idiots!!!

Why not pre-order and get it even before the launch date?

June 28 2010 at 7:14 AM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
Leon

Wow, this is taken before I got there at 6:50am haha

And it's 2:42pm now in Queens - Thunderstorm, I wonder how the line is now :/

June 24 2010 at 2:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Guscat

I just got back from the Upper Westside Apple Store, and the line there looked if anything even worse. Not only did it go around one block, it went 1/3 around a second block. (I was lucky, I got there at the right time, and was in the first group of people who made reservations to get an iPhone. I had my phone activated by 7:10). I was there for the iPad launch, and it was nothing like this (there might have been 300 or so people in line when the store opened). Still, it was a very pleasant experience overall thanks in no small part to the Apple employees who catered the whole thing with food and coffee from Starbucks.

On another note, a friend of mine is waiting in line in Baltimore at the Towson store. Apparently they are only taking 4 people at a time (I believe they were taking 30 at a time at the Upper Westside store.)

June 24 2010 at 8:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
robogobo

If I were up front I would definitely sell my place to the highest bidder. Opening price $200.

June 24 2010 at 8:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
aepilev

Thanks for the video but watching a recording made while walking is nauseating for me.

June 24 2010 at 8:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Doc Rock

Wow that's amazing. Looks like a nice day in NYC though. Mike who is holding your place?

TUAWloha

June 24 2010 at 7:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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