Even in Sydney, the iPhone apple store has handed AUS$100 gift card to everyone in the waiting line as an apology because the store was unable to avail them with an iPhone 7 plus.
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But London’s response has been rather limp, by comparison.
The Apple Store at Willowbrook still had a half-dozen customers lined up outside the store at 2:30 p.m.
It’s perhaps not surprising.
Those who wanted to get their hands on the iPhone 7 in black or any colour of the iPhone 7 Plus will have to place an order today, or choose an alternative.
Tired but elated, Barsoum charged in to the store at 8 a.m.to the cheers of Apple staff.
iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus boasts beefed up memory, camera, and water resistance. After picking up the phones, he sold them immediately to a trader outside the store and said he earned HK$712 for each one. Customers who hadn’t pre-ordered the larger iPhone 7 Plus models will be unable to buy them in Apple stores Friday, the company said earlier this week. The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus is released in China beginning from Sept 16.
Apple warned on Thursday that initial stocks of the iPhone 7 Plus had already sold out the day before launch day, while the jet black iPhone 7 would also not be available to walk-in customers.
We estimate this year’s iPhone 7 launch line at Apple’s flagship 5th Avenue store in NYC was around 400 people vs 650 for the 6S and 1,880 for the 6.
Outside an Apple Store in Hong Kong, sports coach Kala Singh said he’d reserved his matte black iPhone 7 a week ago. He also plans to use the Airpods, Apple’s wireless earpods. They both come with features like a faster processor, longer battery life and better cameras.
Pettigrew says he’s had every phone since the iPhone 3 debut and unlike Pounds, he gets his hands on a new phone as soon as it’s released.
The iPhone 7 starts at $649 and the iPhone 7 Plus starts at $769.
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The jet black phones have a complex manufacturing process that involves nine stages of production.
