"I thought it would be like deja vu," he said. "I guess that wasn't the case."Meanwhile, Matt Zimmer, 28, had just joined the line. The Manhattanite wants to get an iPhone 7 in rose gold for his birthday, which coincides with the phone's release. He decided at the last minute that he'd wait in line for the iPhone to celebrate. "It wasn't the way I was expecting to," Zimmer said. Jaime Gonzalez, 39, of Queens, was first in line and first to get an iPhone 7. He bought two. Though he'd been hoping to get the Plus, he was still so excited to show off the phone that he walked out without paying and had to go back into the store -- where he'd left his credit card and ID -- to pay for it after the media frenzy.
All things considered, it was an improvement on 2015's iPhone launch, "Last year I didn't preorder," he said, "so I went from being number 1 to number 500."After more than three weeks on Fifth Avenue this year, he's looking forward to finally going home, "I haven't slept in my bed for the last 23 days, Right now what I'm gonna do is go home, take a shower and pass out."Gonzalez is looking forward to sea lace iphone case being first again next year for the 10th anniversary iPhone, Justin Harris, the first person in line at Apple's new store in San Francisco's Union Square, wasn't sure if he'd even buy a phone since the model he wanted, the iPhone 7 Plus, was sold out, The 19-year-old from Oakland had been waiting in line for a week mostly for the experience, he said..
"I'm not getting anything at this moment," he told CNET before the Apple Store opened. "I'm walking in and experiencing life."The lines at Apple's San Francisco flagship store were shorter than in past years. Apple Store employees convinced him to buy a matte black iPhone 7, but Harris said he doesn't "plan on keeping this more than the return period." He's going to order the 7 Plus online instead and hope it gets here before he has to return the iPhone 7. If not, Harris may keep buying and returning smaller versions of the phone until he gets the 7 Plus, he said.
Tod Barnett, a 29-year-old about a dozen people into the line, got to the store a little after 3 a.m, with the hopes of nabbing a 7 Plus, When he found out it wasn't available, Barnett sea lace iphone case decided to stay anyway to buy his younger brother an iPhone 7 and himself an Apple Watch, And, he hoped, Apple just might find some 7 Plus devices in the store, They didn't, Instead, Barnett, who's participating in Apple's upgrade program, will buy his own device online, Lou Kosak, trading in his rose gold iPhone 6S as part of the upgrade program, reserved his 128GB jet black iPhone 7 for an 8 a.m, pickup, He arrived at 6:50 a.m, for that appointment because "last year I showed up half an hour early and it was a really, really long line." Kosak opted for the smaller phone over its larger sibling because the Plus "is a lot of phone."Updated throughout the day: To include launches from Australia, London, New York and San Francisco..
Apple warned there'd be no iPhone 7 Plus for anyone who hadn't reserved one. That didn't scare away the fanboys but meant disappointment for some. For some, Apple launch day didn't bring the usual joy and excitement. The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus officially went on sale as the clock ticked over to Friday morning in time zones around the world. The first big moment fell to Australia, with Sydney's George St. Apple Store the honorary "first buyer" location for worldwide coverage (though many other stores open at the same time along Australia's East Coast).
