Two and a half days after the offical iPhone 3G launch, we joined the droves of the 1st wave/shipment adopters.
After going by the Apple store in Palo Alto at 10AM and seeing a long line and then headed off to the one at the Stanford mall. After breakfast (11AM), we saw what we thought was a short line of about 10 people. That wasn’t the case. They, Apple, split the line into two and the line was actually about 40 deep.
After a trip down South for some other shopping, we decided to skip the Apple store at Valley Fair which is usually a very busy store, we drove back up to Burlingame. It was about 2PM and the line was short. Say 20 people. And not only that, we got a parking space across the street. Ahhh, life in the city. Once in line, the Apple guy said it’d be about2hrs but by 2:35, we were in the door and buying an iPhone.
The good luck ran out there. Apparently, since my wife gets a corporate discount, you can’t buy the iPhone under that rate. Luckily ATT was open and after two calls, we removed the discount so we could get her iPhone. So, an extra 20mins there but still, about 1 hr total time spendt. Not bad at all. On Friday, the offical launch day, people were waiting upwards to 6-8 hrs and then the store may close on you. Close as in its late not we ran out.
Me? I’m happy with my jailbroken 1st gen iPhone and I got it 6 months after the 1st launch.
