New iPhone goes on sale
New York, June 20: The new iPhone went on sale Friday morning, greeted by much smaller lines and less hoopla than previous models.
A few hundred people were in line just before the 07:00 local time opening of Apple Inc’s flagship store on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, a fraction of the people who lined up around the block for last year’s launch.
That launch turned into a debacle as Apple’s servers failed to cope with the load of new customers trying to activate their phones. People who already had iPhones were trying to install a software update on the same day, adding to the pressure.