Steve de Mena <steven@stevedemena.com> wrote:

> > Poor Mark has to really dig around to find bad news on the highly
> > successful launch of iPhone in the UK, and Germany.
> >
> > One quick view of this YouTube Video shows the incredible excitement of
> > the first modern cellphone to be introduced in Europe in over 2 decades!
>
> Looks like you dug around and found the sole UK location (according to
> the articles I read) with any sort of crowd and are using this to
> supposedly represent typical UK reaction...

nope, it was just this first one to come up.

here is Sky News's take...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IGeYfP49s8

but if you remember, the big lines in the States weren't at AT&T stores
either, all the fun is at the 200 Apple stores.

we'll see plenty of videos and pictures as the days progress...

> > Wow! Just Wow!
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3aPhe8QYmQ
> >
> > The press is covering all the big news quite well, only the people
> > scared of the iPhone seem to be upset. Nokia is extremely worried by
> > this event, they can't get anyone to stand in line, much less buy their
> > poorly featured, heavy, very expensive cell phones. Apple has them by
> > the balls and they can't do a thing about it at this point in the game.
> >
> > Typical news is positive, over 10,000 sold in the first day in Germany.
>
> Wow.
>
> Steve

Yep! Apple has another big hit on their hands... France will be the big
one in Europe, they are already the most Apple savvy, so having a high
end Apple phone could send them into a frenzy. Steve flew in yesterday
(Friday)

http://www.hardmac.com/news/2007-11-09/#7438

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