AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota
Thousands of people camped out at electronics stores Friday morning as the newest iPhone went on sale in Canada and a half-dozen other countries.
Apple Stores and retailers Future Shop and Best Buy were opening two hours early across the country to kick off sales of the new model, the iPhone 4S.
A dozen people were waiting at the Future Shop in St. John's when it opened its doors at 8 a.m. NT, said Shaun Eary, the store's manager of cellular products. "I got there at seven and already there were four people lined up," he said.
An hour and a half later and 2,100 kilometres to the west, the Apple Store in Toronto's Eaton Centre shopping mall opened to a queue of hundreds of people. Some were lounging or napping in camping chairs while others spread out on the floor with sleeping mats, laptops and fast food.
There were also pre-dawn lineups in Montreal, Mississauga, Ont., and Ottawa and an overnight campout by dozens of people in Edmonton. The first person in line at the Apple Store in downtown Vancouver arrived Thursday at 8 a.m. PT — a full day ahead of time.
In London, nearly 1,000 people waited outside the Apple Store in Covent Garden to purchase the device, packing the street. About 200 people were at Apple's Fifth Avenue store in New York as it went on sale. Steve Wozniak, who founded Apple with Steve Jobs in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976, was first in line at a store in Los Gatos, Calif.
Customers wait in line in front of a store in Tokyo to buy its new iPhone 4S on Friday. Confetti fell from the air as the shop opened. Itsuo Inouye/Associated Press Many said the event resembled a remembrance to Jobs, who died last week. Others joked that the 4S model stood "for Steve."
Una Chen, a 24-year-old banker, said she was just happy to swap out her BlackBerry Bold for the new iPhone, particularly after a BlackBerry outage affected her phone this week.
"It's not good to have a phone and not be able to use it," Chen said.
Wozniak came out to the California store even though he already had two new phones on the way. He told television station NBC11 on Thursday that while he waited for the store's opening Friday morning, he planned on getting caught up on his email and chatting with fans.
Apple sold a million of its latest smartphone on the first day of pre-orders last Friday, easily beating the 600,000 first-day pre-orders for the iPhone 4 last year. Based on those numbers, analysts are predicting the company will sell between three million and four million of the devices on its opening weekend.
All major Canadian wireless operators — including Telus, Rogers, Bell and Virgin Mobile — carry the iPhone 4S.
The phones also debuted Friday in Australia, France, Germany, Japan and Britain. They are coming to 22 more countries by the end of the month.
The base model of the iPhone 4S costs $159 in Canada with a three-year contract. Customers have a choice of white or black. Without a contract, it costs $649.
The phone — Apple's fifth — has a faster processor and an improved camera compared with last year's model. However, some customers and investors were disappointed that Apple didn't launch a more radical new model. It's been more than a year since Apple's previous model was released.
With files from The Associated Press Accessibility Links
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar