Oxford wrote:
> 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.

That second link you posted, the Sky News story - it doesn't show ANY
people lined up anywhere. It's simply an advance story touting the
features of the phone.

So my statement stands, that you found the only place in London that
had any sort of line.

BTW, the AT&T store near me, in between two Apple stores (ony blocks
away) had hundreds of people waiting on launch day.

Steve