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Analysts are saying Apple may sell 1.5 million iPhones in the first week. A bit more challenging than 250,000. Anyway when it comes to lines these people made a
by jsz0 16y ago
Analysts are saying Apple may sell 1.5 million iPhones in the first week. A bit more challenging than 250,000. Anyway when it comes to lines these people made a choice. Apple offered to ship it to their door. They may have actually got it a day earlier if they opted for delivery instead. Even if you preferred local pickup Best Buy's pre-orders were fulfilled by appointment. So these people all had choices. For whatever reason they wanted to line-up in front of an Apple store for 6 hours because they absolutely had to have this thing on launch day. No sympathy from me. If Apple is using them for PR they are willing pawns.
- blahedo 16y agoOk, first of all, that's only a factor of six, not the orders of magnitude you seem to be implying. And I don't think you can lay this at the feet of the people standing in line unless they were informed when they made their choice that choosing an Apple store would involve five to ten hour queuing outdoors. I'm guessing Apple didn't say that in the order form, in which case the "choice" was one about which they were uninformed, perhaps deliberately so, and Apple remains largely at fault.