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iPhone 4 Launch: More photos from 5th Ave
More moments & photos from the 5th Avenue store iPhone 4 launch, where they are taking about 40 pre-ordered customers for every 5 off of the walk-in line. We've got store reports coming in to our @ask_tuaw Twitter account, so if you've got a picture of the scene at your store, upload it to a convenient spot and let us know! Gallery #1: More from the line %Gallery-96196% Gallery #2: Overnight scenes from Matthew Redmond %Gallery-96197%
iPhone 4 Launch: First customers entering 5th Ave Store
The cheering, the clapping, the credit checks and the service provisioning: it's iPhone 4 day in NYC, with the promise of sweltering temperatures encouraging those in line to get in and get finished as quick as they can. Video of the first customers above, gallery of the scene below. %Gallery-96194%
iPhone 4 Launch: 5th Ave Store Linewalk
When they say 'the line is around the block' -- well, this is the line, that's the block, and this is what it means. Hundreds of people -- much bigger than the iPad launch line or the 3GS, by my estimation -- lined up around the 5th Avenue block of the Apple Store, waiting for the iPhone 4. Back in a second with the video of the first walk-in customers.
iPhone 4 Launch: CoCo drops in on the Apple Store line
It's New York City, people; deposed late-night talk show hosts are always walking around looking for a good time. Yes, the 5th Avenue Apple Store iPhone 4 line is officially on Team CoCo now after a brief visit from Conan O'Brien, captured here by reader Matthew Redmond. More pics from the waiting game in the gallery below. %Gallery-96125%
Apple Store 5th Ave continues to defy gravity, macroeconomics
While the entire retail sector is in the doldrums of recession and reduced consumer demand, there's a shiny spot in midtown NYC with a big glass cube sitting on top of it. Apple's 5th Avenue store should replace that glowing Apple with a big ol' dollar sign, according to a report from Bloomberg News. The story says that while overall retail sales in New York have fallen between 8 and 10% since 2008, and US retail sales for the first half of 2009 are down 9.2% from the same six months of 2008, Apple's retail operations are still holding steady. In particular, the 5th Avenue store stands out; while Apple did not release store-by-store numbers, Bloomberg quoted an estimate of about $350 million in annual sales; that's $35K per square foot of the 10,000-sf store. By comparison, high-end jeweler Tiffany & Co. does only about $18K per square foot. That $350M number is lower than the New York Post's $440M estimate, but still astonishingly good business.
Sony mylo spotted in stores, online
A kind employee reports that the CompUSA in Clearwater, Florida is stocking the $350 Sony mylo (only in black, apparently), and he's got a set of pics to prove it. The store's SKU spotted in the photographs assures us that these are the real McCoy indeed, and not just some pre-production model. Of course, just because mylos have been sighted in one CompUSA (and on various online retailers, including Amazon and SonyStyle.com) doesn't mean they're necessarily available everywhere yet -- so as always, your mileage may vary. That said, be sure to click through for one more mylo close-up before we send you on your merry way to your local gadgeteria.[Thanks, Dan the Man]
