Monday
Nov122007
Why the FUD over the UK Launch?
Monday, November 12, 2007 at 11:09AM
Eek!
Even TWIT are at it!
Really Wil Harris, you should be ashamed of yourself.
I was shocked to hear the misinformation that there were NO!!! queues for the iPhone at the UK launch. As from my previous post, there were at least 120-150 queuing up outside a relatively small Apple store in Manchester, which was probably replicated in all the other Apple stores throughout the UK. Not to mention the huge crowds at both Regent Street and Glasgow.
No-one ever expected to see the sort of queues that happened at the launch in the US but to say there were no queues is just downright wrong! MacDaily News are reporting:
Besides which, I wonder how many UK peeps who would normally expect to get an iPhone on launch day already had a hacked phone from the US. I'm sure many of those decided to stick with the hacked phone for now.
And what's with all this, not used to buying a Phone plus a contract? Granted the iPhone is on the top scale but it is a new class of device and other high end smart phones are available for a premium price plus a contract.
Rant over (but I'll still keep listening to TWIT and Wil is a good guy really :-))
Even TWIT are at it!
Really Wil Harris, you should be ashamed of yourself.
I was shocked to hear the misinformation that there were NO!!! queues for the iPhone at the UK launch. As from my previous post, there were at least 120-150 queuing up outside a relatively small Apple store in Manchester, which was probably replicated in all the other Apple stores throughout the UK. Not to mention the huge crowds at both Regent Street and Glasgow.
No-one ever expected to see the sort of queues that happened at the launch in the US but to say there were no queues is just downright wrong! MacDaily News are reporting:
Nicholas Christian reports for Scotland on Sunday, "Gadget fever showed no sign of abating across the UK yesterday as customers continued to queue to snap up the new Apple iPhone [on Saturday]."
"At the height of the frenzy on Friday night, iPhones were flying off the shelves at the rate of 4.2 per second," Christian reports.
"A spokesman for O2... said yesterday: 'We don't have any official collated figures yet, but what we can say is that the sales are more than exceeding our expectations, and our expectations were pretty high," Christian reports.
Stephen Hayward reports for The Sunday Mirror, "As many as 70,000 of the £269 must-have gadgets were expected to be sold over the weekend as Apple, O2 and Carphone warehouse stores stayed open longer to cope with the demand."
"More than 400,000 are expected to be sold in Britain in the run up to Christmas and 10million worldwide in 2008," Hayward reports.
Besides which, I wonder how many UK peeps who would normally expect to get an iPhone on launch day already had a hacked phone from the US. I'm sure many of those decided to stick with the hacked phone for now.
And what's with all this, not used to buying a Phone plus a contract? Granted the iPhone is on the top scale but it is a new class of device and other high end smart phones are available for a premium price plus a contract.
Rant over (but I'll still keep listening to TWIT and Wil is a good guy really :-))
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Reader Comments (1)
Wil wasn't the only one goofed here here, a number of web-wise folk got this story completely wrong too. A bit of sour grapes from some of the mobile phone retailers perhaps...?