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This is how the iPhone launch happened around the world

This is how the iPhone launch happened around the world

2 months ago

This is how the iPhone launch happened around the world

2 months ago


In case you didn’t notice the queue in your town centre this morning, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have hit the shelves for the first time.

Across Australia, China, Europe and the US, the new phones will be available to those who walk in to Apple stores. Queues have been forming since Monday – but then, the doors opened.

This is what launch day looked like around the globe.

Australia

Customers queue in the rain outside the Apple Store in Sydney, Australia
(Apple)

The rain didn’t stop hundreds from waiting in line in Sydney. And some had unconventional means of collecting their new phone too.

A women uses a remote controlled robot to collect an iPhone
(Apple)

Yes, that is a robot.

Staff at the Apple Store in Sydney
(Apple)

Beijing

Crowds inside the Apple Store in Beijing
(Apple)

For the first time, China is a launch country for the iPhone – and that was more than enough to bring the crowds out in Beijing.

Munich

A crowd outside the Apple Store in Munich
(Matthias Schrader/AP)

Paris

a women looks at the iPhone 6s
(Francois Mori/AP)

Veronika Babochkina started queuing on Thursday night in Paris to get her hands on the new iPhone.

London

A man leaves the Covent Garden Apple Store with the new iPhone
(Yui Mok/PA )

But Sam Shaikh from Stratford will take some beating. The 29-year-old began queuing outside the Covent Garden store on Monday night to ensure he was the first to get hold of the 6s Plus. In rose gold, naturally.


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