5 days in and lines continue at the Apple Store

Good Morning! 7:45 in the AM here on the East Coast, and lines continue outside of a Philadelphia area Apple Store. As of my last count there are 30 people in line, and more are lining up by the minute. It remains unknown how many or of what capacity phones are going to be available today. These folks are going to be in line for the next two hours in the hope that they'll be one of the few to have this phone within the first week. One person I spoke to confirmed they've been in line since 6:00am. If you want one of these phones . . . get in line EARLY.

Did you wait in line before store opening? What time did you get there? Did you get the phone you wanted? Let us know.

I'll report again tomorrow...

iPhone! Get your iPhone!

Want an iPhone? How much would you pay. According to a quick ebay search people are willing to pay a pretty penny for one, between 3 and 4 times the purchase price. Almost makes me want to take a day off from work just to wait in line at my local store to flip the phones on ebay.

What I'd like to know is how people are selling phones without contracts seeing you need to activate in store? It should be a difficult proposition to purchase a 3G iPhone without a contract. Perhaps these are phones from day 1 after buyers were sent home after the activation outtage? I'll continue to keep an eye on the ebay scene . . . in the meantime, if you are selling a phone without contract on ebay, please let us know your secret ;)

Look at this whopper....

Lines continue at the Apple Store

It's 7:45am and I'm outside of my local (Philadelphia Area) Apple Store. The store doesn't open until 10am yet there are already a dozen or so standing in line anxiously awaiting the store open just over 2 hours from now to get their hands on a shiny new 3G iPhone. It's unknown when the shipment will arrive and how many phones will be on it. These folks don't even know what capacity phones will be available. Never the less, they wait with anticipation to be some of the lucky few to have a phone in the first few days of the launch event. I'm going to assume lines like the one I'm witnessing are beginning to form across the country. Any guess as to when they'll sell their 2nd million phones??

Something that maybe the Zune did right

As iPod touch and iPhone users stare at the wonders in the new app store, I can't help but wonder if maybe the masterminds behind the Zune may have been onto something.. Hear me out...

One of the most panned features of the Zune is the ability to "squirt" songs (up to three) to another user. They can then listen to those songs in a limited fashion (very limited). Now that the iTunes App store is open, I can't help but notice one major flaw: there's no way to preview apps before buying.

What if a friend downloaded a program they said you had to buy, and you could try it on your iPod/iPhone for a limited time first? It would be a way for app developers and Apple to generate more interest(and revenue) in good apps, and give users a "social" way to try programs before buying them.

So whattya say.. Let's join "the social."

iTunes back up, get in now!

Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! The iTunes servers are playing nice once again, so if you've been waiting to get your phone activated, do it now!