iPhone 7 release draws big crowds
Published 12:00 am Saturday, September 17, 2016
Long lines formed outside several Apple stores Friday morning as customers vied to be one of the first to get their hands on an iPhone 7.
Photos on Twitter showed crowds queuing inside malls in Orlando, Florida, outside stores in New York and a line in front of a San Francisco store at 1 a.m.
Hopefully those fanboys and fangirls weren’t expecting to walk out with a jet black iPhone 7. Or any color of the iPhone 7 Plus.
Apple says only “limited quantities” of the iPhone 7 in black, silver, gold and rose gold are available at retail stores.
The Cupertino, California, tech giant said initial supplies of the iPhone 7 Plus in all colors and the iPhone 7 in jet black sold out during the online preorder period and won’t be available for walk-in customers.
“We sincerely appreciate our customers’ patience as we work hard to get the new iPhone into the hands of everyone who wants one as quickly as possible,” Apple said in a statement.
The iPhone 7 starts at $649 and the iPhone 7 Plus starts at $769. The phones feature improved cameras, brighter displays and faster processors than their predecessors. They don’t include a traditional headphone 3.5-millimeter audio jack, a shift Apple hopes will steer the industry toward a wireless future.