Posted on Jun 26, 2025 at 07:30 by scott truitt
Queuing for change
I waited in line by myself to buy the first Apple iPod in 2001. I arrived about 20 minutes before the Apple Store in my hometown of Columbus opened. It was the debut of Apple’s first handheld device at one of its first retail stores in the US. Two experiments at once. Less than six years later, I queued for hours with thousands to buy the first iPhone at the Apple Store in San Francisco. The line stretched down Stockton St and around O’Farrell St. People dressed in costume (never a surprise i
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