Apple Palo Alto Store iPhone Campers - UPDATEx2
I was just out a little while ago walking down Palo Alto’s University Ave. (I live .5 blocks away) and had a look at the line outside the Apple store.
As expected, tons of nerds with laptops camping out with the obligatory local news van outside.
I was surprised by a few things: Around half of the laptops I saw were not Macs and I am about 92.5% sure that the guy first in line is actually a local homeless/semi-homeless guy. Perhaps somebody is paying him to hold the spot.
I did take a bunch of photos with my production sample Cingular branded Nokia N80 (which DOES have UMTS/WCDMA 3G on the AT&T network, unlike the iPhone) but unfortunately something was buggy and none of the photos were saved to the MiniSD card.
I may stop by tomorrow before 6PM to snap some more photos. If so, I’ll post here.
Update: Graeme and I just stopped by the Apple store again around 6:05PM and it was total mayhem. Steve Jobs himself was inside (see 7th photo of inside of Apple store with the back of a guy with black shirt and light colored hat — that was SJ.) We then went to University Cafe for a drink and saw some Japanese people taking photos of their iPhones.
Here are the photos taken with Graeme’s N95.
Steve Jobs^^^^
Update 2: Looks like someone managed to catch a video of Steve Jobs at the Apple Store at the same time I was there eagerly snapping photos of his back. Check out the video here.
Also, Andrea kindly took some photos for me of the nerds waiting in line during the day on Friday since my N80 flaked out the night before. Obligatory guy with white beard and lawn chair present, of course.
