Customers Waiting in Line at Apple Retail Stores Around the World for iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max

[sumsingwong]

We don't have Apple stores in India yet. But then we do have the rich people who spend the extra $ to fly the latest iPhone and have the coveted status of being the first person to own the iPhone in their city!

So it's a just a status symbol and bragging rights to say you have it first?

 

[mrex]

So it's a just a status symbol and bragging rights to say you have it first?

sadly miserable values of life...

and finally no one cares.

 

[Emtbill]

No waiting here, walked in yesterday, and was out in little over an hour.

 

[Clix Pix]

I really like that LG 24" monitor. A lot (If there was a current Mac I could use that with*, I'd jump). Hope you get the chance to test it when you pick up your iPhone.

Whenever you get your new iPhone, enjoy it!

*Perhaps with the upcoming 16" MBP if it has a new keyboard.

Thanks, Kazmac! Once they become readily available in the stores so the I can just get up some morning, think, "I'm going to get that new iPhone Pro today!" and go on over there, I'll be doing so. I much prefer doing that to being in the store during that frantically busy time when everyone is stressed, anxious and tired. I'd go over in the morning, too, before things get busy.....

Yes, if I were to buy the new LG 24" monitor, I'd bring it home and plug her right into my 2018 MBP.... I already use that computer as a desktop replacement anyway, but hadn't gotten around to getting a monitor. This LG ticks all the boxes for me: the right size, the fact that I just plug in one cable, easily controllable with my Mac, etc., etc. Years ago when I had a 24" iMac I always loved that size, and felt that 21.5" is a little too small while 27" is just too big for me to wrestle around. Some time when the store is not busy I'll spend a little time checking out the display model more thoroughly.

 

[Stevie jobz 2.0]

The modern smart.phone revolution changed how everyone interacted with technology, that shift however was a decade ago. Nothing that has been released recently by anyone has changed anyone's lives.... period!!!

#mustHaveShinyShiny

 

[falainber]

So, given a choice between waiting in line overnight and getting the phone on Friday, and going to the store on Saturday and getting the phone without any lines some people prefer the first option... Interesting.

 

[Stevie jobz 2.0]

So, given a choice between waiting in line overnight and getting the phone on Friday, and going to the store on Saturday and getting the phone without any lines some people prefer the first option... Interesting.

You are not getting it man, it's not about getting a.new toy, its about the experience of standing in the cold and wet all night with complete strangers who you have nothing in common with at all, and have run out of things to say once you have said what model you are after!!! Oh, one shared thing you all have... sod all going on in your life when you can spend all night outside a closed shop to be first in line 9am!!!! When you stroll in at 10am and pick one up!!!!

#insane

 

[I7guy]

You are not getting it man, it's not about getting a.new toy, its about the experience of standing in the cold and wet all night with complete strangers who you have nothing in common with at all, and have run out of things to say once you have said what model you are after!!! Oh, one shared thing you all have... sod all going on in your life when you can spend all night outside a closed shop to be first in line 9am!!!! When you stroll in at 10am and pick one up!!!!

#insane

#toeachtheirown, is what I believe, when it comes to this type of thing.

 

[digthewell]

So it's a just a status symbol and bragging rights to say you have it first?

For quite a few people, yes. It is like a status symbol that you've arrived. That is why Apple can get away with selling older gen phones in India, because there is a ready market of first time iPhone buyers ready to lap up their phones. Apple products on the second hand market go for a good premium over other brands.

 

[falainber]

#toeachtheirown, is what I believe, when it comes to this type of thing.

We all believe in that but it does not mean that we can't have our own opinion about the phenomenon.

 

[I7guy]

We all believe in that but it does not mean that we can't have our own opinion about the phenomenon.

Who said there can’t be opinions about this? However, if one is to deride or criticize what others do it makes sense to me to say, “to each their own”.

 

[Phone Junky]

Listed my old iPhone on Swappa at 3:15 pm yesterday. Sold at 4:15 pm. Went on Apple.com at 4:20 pm and bought my new iPhone that was in stock and to be picked up at my closest Apple store. Drove to the store and was in and out in 5 minutes with the new iPhone. I see no reason to stand in any lines.