Long Lines Forming for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Launch in Australia

[fullfast]

Never done the queue up for an iPhone but did it for the iPad mini....it was definitely an experience.....need to go to Bluewater, UK tomorrow evening to get a couple of bits......

Thankfully already tracking my pre order on web and getting text updates from delivery....so hopefully will be able to get hold of a case to protect it.....

 

[whcchief]

lmao.... well i never

Meanwhile i'll track my 19/9 delivery before I get back to work.

Well done. Enjoy your boring delivery. I'm not lining up either lol

 

[the8thark]

Happens every year here in Australia. I was in Melbourne for the 5s launch. I didn't get a phone but I took a photo of the lines. Insanely long as usual.

 

[Speedy Dingo]

I'd go and wait at the Brisbane City store.

 

[KPOM]

I don't get why people don't preorder.

Just got my tracking number!

It's not fair that Australians get their iPhones 15-18 hours before we do here in the US. We should move the international date line.

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I'm fairly certain that's not the Brisbane City Apple Store. This is.

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Only 2 people are in line? I guess it isn't selling well. /jk

 

[Thereisnowill]

Well done. Enjoy your boring delivery. I'm not lining up either lol

I'm not waiting in line but might test my luck by strolling in in the morning

 

[filiale]

Looks like Chinese resellers.

 

[RayDonovan]

I don't get why people don't preorder.

"People", Including me tried to preorder but couldn't get the site to work due to the traffic. By the time I got through the wait was at 3-4 weeks.

 

[Ramchi]

Sounds real!

Why Apple employees forming line so soon?

 

[bushido]

not a single aussie to be seen in these lol

we all know where those phones will end up

 

[gnasher729]

Why Apple employees forming line so soon?

Apple customers. Because they are excited about getting a new iPhone. Apple employees have either all gone home, or will be going home soon when the store closes for Thursday evening.

 

[AdonisSMU]

People have to much time

How do you know? Youre on here.

 

[Donoban]

People have to much time

Just like those trawling the macrumor forums. LOOOOLZ.

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Anyone been to the Canberra Apple store? Always smells really bad in there.

 

[siurpeeman]

so in about twelve hours we'll know what the supply of iphone 6 pluses is like?

 

[SlCKB0Y]

This is the line outside the Bondi Apple Store in Sydney, Australia at 6:30PM (13.5 hours from opening). The Apple store is open for another hour (9pm).

http://122.201.102.201/~scole/bondi-line.mp4

The one in the Sydney flagship store is hundreds long wrapping around a number of city blocks.

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

I don't get why people don't preorder.

Here's my reason:
I have 4 lines on my account. My number is slated for upgrade on 11/14, and AT&T won't pull in the date to 9/12. I have another line that is due for upgrade now, but I have to pull that upgrade over to my line. The web page doesn't have that capability. Plus, I'm moving across the country at the end of the month, so if it gets pushed out past 10/1 to between 10/1 and 10/13, it will be somewhere I don't want it to be.

I know, a special case, and if things were more stable for me, yeah, I'd pre-order.

In a heartbeat.

 

[fermat-au]

The George St Apple Store, the first and biggest in Sydney, has a line that wraps around two corner

Outside the George St Apple Store
Well, the Apple queue has its own store. That sure is something. - @dr_nic via twitter
https://twitter.com/dr_nic/status/512473621797687296

 

[Oberhorst]

Apple still has it!

No, people just get dumber!

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

Here come the attack ads from Samsung poking fun at all the people lining up for iPhones... while nobody lines up for new Samsung products.

Joe (in marketing): Ha! Wall huggers, waiting for the newest iPhone!
Intern: Hey Joe, they're taking time out of their schedules to wait for a chance to buy a phone. Isn't that a good thing for them?
Joe: umm...

 

[mrmarts]

I'am from Melbourne Australia, I knew that this would happen and i pre ordered mine with Telstra at 1.45am on the saturday, now my telco has sold out of all iPhone 6 plus models it is disaster down under, if i had to miss out I could have been waiting months.

 

[AppleInTheMud]

Just like those trawling the macrumor forums. LOOOOLZ.

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Anyone been to the Canberra Apple store? Always smells really bad in there.

Haha yep - got me

 

[BvizioN]

People have to much time

Kind of ironic, isn't it? A forum member that consumes time on threads like this one, being amazed on what others do with their own time...!!

On the topic.....

We have not heard about these guys who went Q-ing up few weeks before, in US? Did they give up or something?

 

[Oberhorst]

If I went shopping there, those hipster-hobos would annoy me. I wonder why the operator of this mall allows them to bum around like that with all the chairs and stuff.

 

[AppleInTheMud]

Kind of ironic, isn't it? A forum member that consumes time on threads like this one, being amazed on what others do with their own time...!!

On the topic.....

We have not heard about these guys who went Q-ing up few weeks before, in US? Did they give up or something?

Are you for real ? I maybe spend 5-10 minutes on this every 2-3 days. Like reading a paper

I would never stand i line for days, for something I'll get anyway

 

[Tea-Aholic]

Here are my picture I took at Westfield this afternoon: