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I stood for seven hours while cat-and-mouse in band for the iPhone 7 on Friday.
Now, I’m actual accustomed with the iPhone barrage day lines. Judge me as you will, but back 2011, I’ve stood in band for hours to get a new iPhone – partly because I anticipate it’s a little crazy and fun on a claimed level, and partly because I appetite to address and address on the newest iPhones for my job. (It’s mostly the former, to be honest.)
I’ve stood in band at AT&T stores, Verizon stores, and affluence of altered Apple food about New York City. But this acquaintance at Apple’s newest abundance in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was by far the worst.
Many bodies will acceptable acquaint you that this is what you should apprehend if you plan on cat-and-mouse in band for a new iPhone on barrage day. But I can acquaint you, based on my accomplished adventures at carriers and added Apple stores, this is actually not how it’s declared to go.
Walk-in barter aren’t declared to be cat-and-mouse for six-plus hours on their feet, in the hot sun, after affective at all; watching a accumulation of “priority” barter airing in with no delay at all is aloof abacus insult to injury.
And alike if there is a additional antecedence band for pre-order customers, that shouldn’t actually arrest the applicant band – there should be some array of balance. None of that happened, and about anybody in band about me complained for hours about what a “brutal,” “disgraceful,” “bulls–t” acquaintance it was.
For a aggregation like Apple, which places so abundant accent on chump satisfaction, a abrogating acquaintance like this on the company’s better day of the year is unacceptable, abnormally back the bearings was actually avoidable. Alike if one being per band were let through at a time, the pre-order barter still would’ve been apparent eventually than the applicant barter – by proxy of continuing in a abundant beneath band – and applicant barter could still be seen. Bodies may accept eventually gotten their phones, but Friday’s launch, at atomic at Apple’s Williamsburg store, was a absolute mess. And it’s article that needs to be anchored for the future.
