The iPhone 5 simply launched within the U.S. alongside the east coast. Fortune’s Philip Elmer-Dewitt is at the fifth Avenue retailer and notes that the road is longer than last 12 months’s iPhone 4S line:
We’re here at the giant glass dice of Apple’s (AAPL) flagship Fifth Avenue store for the launch of the iPhone 5. The queue of consumers is not so long as the 1,200 that greeted the iPad 2, but at 7 a.m. — one hour ahead of doorways open — I counted 710 heads, fifty two% more than the 400 on the iPhone 4S launch.
the first day pre-orders for the iPhone 5 doubled final year’s iPhone 4S launch. That initial set of pre-orders for the iPhone 5 should arrive throughout the day.
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