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iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Go On Sale in U.S. and Canada to Huge Lines

spectrumfox said:
Wow, strong candidate for defensive post of the day right here.

And I love how people who feel this way forget that without Samsung and other OEM's success with bigger phones, there wouldn't be bigger iPhone 6's.

Who's stealing now? :apple: :cool: :apple:
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Maybe you should do yourself a favor and read the posts before mine that lead to mine. Kneejerk reactions much? :rolleyes:
 
HenryDJP said:
Maybe you should do yourself a favor and read the posts before mine that lead to mine. Kneejerk reactions much? :rolleyes:
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You should read his posts in this thread. Start where he says the world took notice of Samsung's bigger screens.

You'll laugh
 
Trapezoid said:
You should read his posts in this thread. Start where he says the world took notice of Samsung's bigger screens.

You'll laugh
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You haven't figured it out that I've been messing with you all morning? ;)

I'm just having some fun before my iPhone arrives. Yeesh, you take all of this way too seriously.
 
AxoNeuron said:
Keep regurgitating their marketing materials please, I'm sure we're all dying too hear more :rolleyes:

I've been a loyal iPhone user since 2007 but there is no damn way I will be spending $850 on a phone just to avoid 16GB of 2010 era storage.
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That's your problem. Millions of people are actually doing that
 
Things could always be worse.

From USA Today:

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amro said:
Samsung only wishes they had this problem.
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This comes up a lot on here. As a consumer who is eager to get a new phone when it comes out - what is the attractiveness of having to wait on long line to do so?

Obviously you're really referring to demand and sales vs the actual line aspect. I hope so anyway.

I know there is a subculture of people who love waiting on lines for things like phones and concert tickets. I'd much rather walk right into a store or order online without the hassle. A long line would actually deter me from getting one.
 
Shlooky said:
Hey that's a picture of the Eaton Center downtown Toronto!!! :)
Never seen a line up that long there!
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It'll be interesting to see just how big an increase it is with the 6 over the increases for the last couple of years...seems like it will be large.

This doesn't take into consideration how many regular 6's were delivered directly, which I'm guessing was much larger than the 5s (I placed my order at ~ 9:30am CST after the initial flub of online ordering).
 
richnyc said:
Just walked by the Apple Store in Soho, NYC...

Most of the people waiting on line, roughly 98% of them, and I'm not kidding, are ethnic Chinese. By the looks of them most aren't your casual iPhone users... I'm assuming some enterprising individual is paying them to buy up as many as they can to be shipped later back to China before they are officially available there and sell them for a decent mark up... Talk about capitalism in action... Lol
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Was the same in Hartford as well. I listened to a store employee tell someone else many of the people in line were resellers, paying in cash.
 
richnyc said:
Just walked by the Apple Store in Soho, NYC...

Most of the people waiting on line, roughly 98% of them, and I'm not kidding, are ethnic Chinese. By the looks of them most aren't your casual iPhone users... I'm assuming some enterprising individual is paying them to buy up as many as they can to be shipped later back to China before they are officially available there and sell them for a decent mark up... Talk about capitalism in action... Lol
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Yes, same at NYC Apple Store in Midtown (the cube). I didn't know what to make of it. Now I think apparently they are buying it here because it is not available in China yet. And they are probably paying the unsubsidized price. They will resell in China. This says a lot about the amount of income the Chinese now have. It may also speak to whether the Chinese economy is a bubble- a frenzy of speculation.
 
Samsung dreams of lines of this magnitude (apart from the lines at the refunds desk, of course).
 
I returned to the Holyoke MA store after work. There were only two dozen people in line (compared with the hundreds in the morning). So I've joined them and have been waiting about an hour so far. Interestingly, the majority of people in line are holding Galaxy phones.

Since I got in line, the crowd behind me has grown. Now there are over 100 people again. Wow.
 
Jsameds said:
I agree. The day Scotland came to its senses!
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Many of us see voting no as a huge mistake. Sadly the yes votes only amounted to 55% which the media tries to turn into a huge win. It isn't really especaially when there was sipuch a huge voter turn out.

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phpmaven said:
I'm sick and tired of these inane comments. Take a hike.
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Nothing inane about it.

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sshambles said:
No. Just no.

Only 45% of Scottish voters came to their senses.
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Which is pretty close to a 50-50 split. Yet the media is claiming a huge victory.
 
QCassidy352 said:
Your thoughtful comment is unlike anything that has been posted on this forum since 2007 when the first iPhone came out, and adds a great deal to this discussion. Thanks for stopping by!
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And I'm truly sorry your life is so void of meaning. But thank you for a perspective I had never thought of. No, really.
 
cohibadad said:
Every time I see a photo from a launch line I think of the iPad 2 launch when I tried that at our mall. Security questioned me and told me I can't take pictures in the mall unless it is of my own family or friends as pictures in a mall are too much of a terrorist concern.
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That is what they say today but it is bull crap! The real reason is that merchants don't like their store layouts and advertising photographed. These days officials just whip out the terrorism card whenever they try to get people to comply with silly policy.

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acedout said:
These new phones don't even do anything substantially new.
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Actually everything about the iPhones is new except for the RAM. I'd go so far as to say that they are vastly improved.
They are just bigger. I just don't understand the panic to get this on day one.
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Makes no sense at all to me.
I can understand pre-ordering for day one, but standing all day in a queue/line for a phone!?
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Risking your life too. Crowds like that are simply dangerous.
 
Went to my local UPS to pick up the phone this morning at 8 am after the tracking said it was ready for pick up. There was a line of 5 ppl when i arrived at 7:55 AM all there to pick up their phones. Several more showed up as time went on, but not nearly as bad as an Apple Store line.

When the doors opened at 8, we were told that the iPhones are not yet ready for pickup. Ppl were a little upset to say the least lol. It took about a half an hour for them to get the shipments ready, so not a huge deal, but very unprofessional of UPS to indicate that the packages were indeed ready for pick up only for it not be.

Even though the phones weren't ready precisely at 8, it made a heck of a lot more sense to get a full nights sleep and wait at UPS rather than camp out all night at the Apple Store.

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rrrahu1 said:
Seriously, why wait on line when you could have pre-ordered and had it delivered to your front door, free of charge, on the 19th?

People amaze me.
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Totally agree. And if you couldn't wait for the delivery, why not hold at the customer center for pick up as early as 8 AM?
 
sransari said:
Went to my local UPS to pick up the phone this morning at 8 am after the tracking said it was ready for pick up. There was a line of 5 ppl when i arrived at 7:55 AM all there to pick up their phones. Several more showed up as time went on, but not nearly as bad as an Apple Store line.

When the doors opened at 8, we were told that the iPhones are not yet ready for pickup. Ppl were a little upset to say the least lol. It took about a half an hour for them to get the shipments ready, so not a huge deal, but very unprofessional of UPS to indicate that the packages were indeed ready for pick up only for it not be.

Even though the phones weren't ready precisely at 8, it made a heck of a lot more sense to get a full nights sleep and wait at UPS rather than camp out all night at the Apple Store.

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Totally agree. And if you couldn't wait for the delivery, why not hold at the customer center for pick up as early as 8 AM?
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Naughty old UPS being run by human beings, rushed off their feet with IMPORTANT things to ship, with more than iPhones to think about - that's awful that you had to wait half an hour for a mere phone... terrible. If you keep complaining about it, it will change what happened - honest.

How about people waiting for medical papers/items to be couriered to them? I suppose people forget about the *really* important things...
 
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