Apple stores hosting 'iPhone World Premiere' Friday night
Apple's retail stores will be open until midnight on Friday to accommodate iPhone customers.
Apple is promoting the "iPhone World Premiere" from 6 p.m. to midnight Friday night outside its retail stores around the country. The company announced earlier today that Apple stores would be closed from 2 to 6 p.m. on Friday to get ready for the iPhone launch. An Apple representative wouldn't comment directly on whether Apple was planning any type of special event at the San Francisco store, but with all the fans, media, and gawkers expected on hand, that probably counts as an event even if Steve Jobs doesn't show.
Apple will need four hours to get ready for iPhone Night at its retail stores.
(Credit: Tom Krazit/CNET News.com)CNET will have folks here in San Francisco, out in New York, and down in Palo Alto, Calif., checking out the scene outside Apple's retail stores and nearby AT&T stores Friday night. Even at the 24-hour Manhattan store, it appears iPhones will only be on sale until midnight, as News.com's Caroline McCarthy spotted the same sign outside Apple's 5th Avenue store.
Earlier this week, a report surfaced that AT&T plans to close its stores at 4:30 p.m., reopening at 6 p.m., but those stores will only be open until 10 p.m. The downtown San Francisco Apple store reopens at 10 a.m. Saturday morning, while the AT&T store around the corner opens also opens at 10 a.m.
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For the love of god please give it up already.
is out of jail, let the interviews begin.
The long, drawn out, ordeal in which we all settle for mediocre
cell phones like you know -- the ones you have been defending
in your posts lately, the ones that have terrible user interfaces, it
is almost over -- it is almost over: just three more days and we
can kiss this old school terrible technology and software
goodbye forever.
Saved and transported into a new era by the iPhone.
Welcome Lindy01 to your future.
- Yawn, boring.
- by Orion Blastar June 27, 2007 12:39 AM PDT
- Nokia already had a phone that does what the iPhone can do for less for quite a while now.
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- You sound boring to me.
- by dansterpower June 27, 2007 6:21 AM PDT
- Please, the N80 lacks the operating system, efficiency and
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(5 Comments)Linspire already covered this:
http://forum.linspire.com/viewtopic.php?t=427643&sid=22ccfc79abe75f6eaeb61456b6177f91
The Nokia N80ie has more features than the iPhone and it costs half as much and you can use it without a carrier and you can download any media file to it you want. The iPhone will only allow media from iTunes, and not download your MP3 collection from your Audio CD ripping.
I won't be buying one, I don't need an iPhone. I am not the type of shallow and egocentric person the iPhone is marketed towards.
productivity of the iPhone, not to mention the robust browsing
capabilities (N80's browser is limited).
"Shallow and Egocentric people buy the iPhone, huh?" Where'd
you pull that from? Source?
Please, Creative, Wise, Productive, Sucessful people will buy the
iPhone over Phones like the N80, My Blackberry Pearl, and for
great reasons.