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iPhone queues already!

smr said:
15%!! I think that is every reason to queue up the night before!!

UK poulation = 60 million (source)

15% of 60 million is 9 million.

With 1300 iPhone outlets (source), that is 6923 people waiting outside each outlet!!
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And a lot of sources are saying that several HUNDRED thousand iPhones are in the UK.
 
smr said:
OK chaps I have improved my model! (I agree, it had flaws!)

This poll indicates the Apple Stores will be more popular (with 54% of day 1 sales). There are only 12 UK Apple Stores (source).

So, 54% of the 9,000,000 (or 4.86 million) iPhones will be sold in the 12 stores, meaning each Apple Store will have 405,000 people queueing outside it! If each person takes up 0.5m, the queues will be over 200km long!!
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Excellent work.

And with each person taking approximately 3 minutes to get served, that means the person at the back of the queue will have to wait approximately 2.3 years to get their iPhone.

Luckily for them, they could actually be first in line for the 3rd generation model!
 
I'm sorry, I will never understand the reasoning behind queuing like this. If Apple was releasing a one-off limited edition product then, it would make sense, but for something that will be permanently available... it just makes them look like idiots. It's not like they are gonna be the first in the country to get their hands on one either - maybe I'll travel up there with my unlocked US iPhone, stand right next to them and draw "YOU ARE DIVS" with the etch-a-sketch app.

I happened to be in NY for the Leopard launch. Out of curiousity, I turned up as they were opening the store and witnessed first-hand the hundreds of people queuing round the block in the pissing rain, plus the crazy high-fiving and woo-hooing that followed. It just made me understand the whole phenomenon even less. A couple of hours later I returned to the store to check my emails - the queue had gone, there were still loads of copies of Leopard on the shelves and I was still given a free T-Shirt!
 
headspace said:
I'm sorry, I will never understand the reasoning behind queuing like this. If Apple was releasing a one-off limited edition product then, it would make sense, but for something that will be permanently available... it just makes them look like idiots. It's not like they are gonna be the first in the country to get their hands on one either - maybe I'll travel up there with my unlocked US iPhone, stand right next to them and draw "YOU ARE DIVS" with the etch-a-sketch app.

I happened to be in NY for the Leopard launch. Out of curiousity, I turned up as they were opening the store and witnessed first-hand the hundreds of people queuing round the block in the pissing rain, plus the crazy high-fiving and woo-hooing that followed. It just made me understand the whole phenomenon even less. A couple of hours later I returned to the store to check my emails - the queue had gone, there were still loads of copies of Leopard on the shelves and I was still given a free T-Shirt!
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You're trying to logically deconstruct something that isn't logical. For some people it's belonging, it's the RDF, it's exciting to be 'part of it', it's a community... it's a combination of all that. I like having parts of those qualities as well. They're happy (queueing), you're happy (going in later with no queue), so you don't need to rub their noses in it with 'you are divs' or equivalent. :) Horses for courses.
 
Hustle said:
Hope they got waterproof coats after the down poor we just had in London. :p
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Well - I've heard along the grapevine that the nice people at the Regent Street store has provided them with coats, umbrellas and a flask of coffee.
 
smr said:
OK chaps I have improved my model! (I agree, it had flaws!)

This poll indicates the Apple Stores will be more popular (with 54% of day 1 sales). There are only 12 UK Apple Stores (source).

So, 54% of the 9,000,000 (or 4.86 million) iPhones will be sold in the 12 stores, meaning each Apple Store will have 405,000 people queueing outside it! If each person takes up 0.5m, the queues will be over 200km long!!
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Love it. Very funny indeed! :D:D:D
 
just passed by Regents St store and the line is now up to 5 blessed souls. they tried to recruit me to be 6th. honestly thought about it for 2secs but its a bit too cold out there right now. told em to keep a space for me around 5ish tmrw.

also looks like cloud is giving the guy up front a free iphone. not sure if there is a consolation prize for the other die hards though....
 
headspace said:
I'm sorry, I will never understand the reasoning behind queuing like this. If Apple was releasing a one-off limited edition product then, it would make sense, but for something that will be permanently available... it just makes them look like idiots. It's not like they are gonna be the first in the country to get their hands on one either - maybe I'll travel up there with my unlocked US iPhone, stand right next to them and draw "YOU ARE DIVS" with the etch-a-sketch app.

I happened to be in NY for the Leopard launch. Out of curiousity, I turned up as they were opening the store and witnessed first-hand the hundreds of people queuing round the block in the pissing rain, plus the crazy high-fiving and woo-hooing that followed. It just made me understand the whole phenomenon even less. A couple of hours later I returned to the store to check my emails - the queue had gone, there were still loads of copies of Leopard on the shelves and I was still given a free T-Shirt!
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For the life of me I will never grasp standing in the rain for any of this mass produced products to be the first to have one. It's silly.

We know apple will be fully stocked. They never ran out in the states until Sunday except in California and we had more buzz than UK.
 
my girlfriend was laughing her head off looking at those pictures!!!!!!!!!!

christ i thought you were bad she said:D:D:D:D
 
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