Pictures from about 4:30 outside the Apple store on Michigan Ave in Chicago on the day of the iPhone release. I’ll clean some of them up later, I just wanted to get them on-line while they were still relevant.
NAR employees Andrew and Chad contimplate a future purchase.
From across the street
The people waiting on the north side of the building.
Starbucks was smart and set up a booth/tent selling coffee to those in line and those walking buy gawking.
Not sure if this belonged to someone in line or not, but I just had to take a picture of the secured Segway.
Some guy was selling his spot in line, increasing the price as it got closer. I’d like to see his price at 6:01.
The start of the line as we know it, and they feel fine.
Oh the humanity! At least they released it in the summer so we don’t have to see the bundled masses freezing their ears off.
So did you buy a phone?? At first I thought that was a lot of money for a phone, but I was playing with a friend’s iphone the other day and overall Apple seems to have really done a good job with it.
Selling a spot in line- that is what America is all about- happy 4th of july!
Sara,
I’ve been avoiding playing with one directly so I don’t get into “must have” mode. I’ve tired of my Sidekick as they really haven’t improved it in any meaningful way since the first release. Unfortunately, I have 16 more months on my contract with another carrier. What to do, what to do.
As seen in the post righter after this one, I did play with on. Its all over now.
Keith, on Saturday after a brief demo I “drank the Kool-Aid” and bought one. My AT&T plan was not up until October, but they make it oh-so easy to re-up for another two years via iTunes. It’s crack for techno-geeks. Grack, creek?