On the night of Thursday, July 28th, the iPhone action in the Los Angeles area wasn’t at Apple’s trendy Grove location, where security wasn’t allowing enthusiasts to camp out overnight, but instead a few miles west at the Third Street Promenade Apple Store in nearby Santa Monica. As of 12:30 am local time Thursday night / Friday morning, several dozen iPhone hopefuls had staked their spot in line with folding chairs, pillows and blankets, and not surprisingly, more than a few iPods and Mac laptops. One early arriver reported that before closing, the Apple Store’s management had provided campers with not only bottled water but also with rudimentary electrical hookups in order to keep their laptops running throughout the night.
The unidentified first person in line for the iPhone was asleep
Our attempts to interview the first person in line failed due to the fact that he was sleeping at the time, but our interview with the fifth person in line revealed that he was part of a tag team that had been in line since about noontime Thursday, placing his entourage’s total expected campout time at thirty hours when all is said and done.
iProng’s Bill Palmer interviews a camper for iProng Radio
Although the vast majority of laptops spotted in line were of the Macintosh variety, the publishers of new iPhone-related publication intoiphone.com were sporting both Mac and Dell laptops and were in fact using their MacBook Pro’s built-in webcam to stream live video of themselves while standing in line.
iProng’s Bill Palmer with the publishers of intoiphone.com
The line continued to grow while we were on-site and appeared to stretch to more than fifty people by the time of our departure at 1:30 am.
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