First in line
When we arrived at the Apple store this morning there was no one in line. We’re still the first two idiots in line. But it’s been good for PR. We’ve been interviewed almost constantly since 9:30 a.m.
Anyway, we’re posting live video and chatting with people from the line over on Kyte.tv. Lots of people have been dropping by and say they are coming back tonight. Already a few CEOs and VCs have been by here (one wanted me to sell her an iPhone — I told her wait in line or go to eBay).
The one problem? Power. I have two batteries and then we’re dead. Anyway, I’m here. Drop by and make fun of me.
UPDATE: we’re on the front page of Palo Alto Online.
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June 28th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Here’s the perfect time for someone to show you their line of solar rechargers for laptops, etc. They have coats, bags, panels …
June 28th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Couldn’t one of you go into the Apple store and charge some batteries?
I’ve never been to the Palo Alto store, but the SF store has plenty of outlets.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Robert, the videos are great. I’m impressed by Patrick’s intelligence. Amazing.
I just wrote an article on how Apple could have a $2 billion day…
http://community.axosoft.com/blogs/hamids/archive/2007/06/27/can-apple-have-a-2-billion-day.aspx
I thought you might enjoy it.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
You are a great Dad. Patrick and the baby you are expecting are fortunate.
I do stuff for/with my son all time that, to others, makes no sense. In time it will…
June 28th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
[...] one-time BLog visitor (and commenter, even) Robert Scoble has started the San Francisco Apple store line for the iPhone. All so you don’t have [...]
June 28th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that you’re waiting in line to buy something with an irreplaceable battery, and your batteries died?
June 28th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Have fun and if you see a Google guy (google product product manager) called chey say hi for me
June 28th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Does anyone really care?
June 28th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
I saw on a video your Twitter Tshirt…Is adorable…Where did you get it? :-P
June 28th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
@6: That’s more than just irony. That’s just plain stupidity.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
I want an iPhone eventually, but I learned long ago not to go after first version Apple products. And I certainly wouldn’t camp out for one.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
You’re also on Fake Steve, for better or worse.
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com
Have fun! Enjoy the iPhone…I am jealous.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Are you going to try and buy your iPhone on your corporate account and then be pissed when you can’t.
How does you waiting in line coincide with the earlier reviews of the Nokia phone you raved about and thought it blew away the iPhone?
Confused here
June 28th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Not having a removable battery isn’t a big deal.
I could get another battery for my treo, but I haven’t. And I’d probably get a new phone before the battery needs to be replaced.
Not having a slot for an SD card is a bigger issue.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Nice to see you on Palo Alto Online and on Fake Steve. Love your photo. Now that’s another thing we have in common: we’ve both been photographed by Norbert von den Groeben:
http://blog.creativethink.com/2007/01/things_go_swimm.html
I’m in the second lane from bottom with white cap with red “S.”
Have fun! (I’m sure you are).
June 28th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Where’s the power inverter for the car? Just put the laptop in there for a bit while it charges both batteries and call it good. Oh, and make sure the car is within sight so you don’t go to get the laptop and find a broken window instead.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
If your going to buy the overly hyped iPhone please do so from me
I think the title speaks for itself. I’m just straightforward asking you to make your iPhone purchase directly from me. There are many of you out there that have been overtaken by the hype. Your going to buy it anyway. So why not help me pay the rent …
June 28th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
First in line… you gotta buy the really big ones. It looks like they only have two!
June 28th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Cool stuff, Robert. I drove by the store :) - looks like Patrick is having fun.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Here’s a ditty to sing along all night long.
We’ve Got to Have iPhones Today
by Tony Bove
(Set to the tune “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” with apologies to Lennon and McCartney)
Here I stand, head in hand
Turn my face to the door
If it’s gone I can’t move on
From the line at the Apple Store…
See “A Song for the Apple Store Line” for the rest.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
[...] continues unabated with all its associated silliness peaking constantly as Friday approaches - even Scoble has gotten in on the kool-aid drinking extravaganza. Just about everywhere you turn something is [...]
June 28th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Robert - nice reporting. Well done. And, Patrick is an impressive communicator. Clearly taking queues from Dad. I’ll be heading to an AT&T store in Issaquah tomorrow. A little sad that I can only buy one. I had plan to pick up about five for various folks at WhatCounts and Eyejot. Might have to make another trip to the Bellevue Square Apple store Saturday… if they have any left. BTW - give this a try: http://alpha.eyejot.com/microsite/iphone_demo (requires Safari 3). Hopefully it will work on the real device. I know the iPhone can’t record video (for now; easily changed with a software update). I just hope it can play embedded Quicktime! See you at Gnomedex!
June 28th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Well at least you finally realize it: “We’re still the first two idiots in line.”
:)
June 28th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Robert, didn’t you take issue with the touch screen on the iPhone because you wouldn’t be able to use it under the table at meetings? Did you stop having meetings or something?
June 28th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Congratualtions Robert, you’re now on par with Greg Packer
Shawn Christopher
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June 28th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
I’m kind of jealous. Yet I don’t have the money for a $500 phone nor do I want to switch to ATT. ;)
June 28th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
@24:
They stopped having tables
June 28th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Robert, just saw you (and I believe your son) on CNBC.
June 28th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
iPhone on sale as of tomorrow
Tomorrow at 9.45 a.m. the iPhone is starting to be sold in the Apple stores across the United States. There is already a big hype around the introduction of the newest must have Apple gadget. People started to get inline
June 28th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
[...] Breath a huge sigh of relief, and then go do something else… like… wait in line for the iPhone. [...]
June 28th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
[...] Scoble: “Drop by and make fun of me.” [...]
June 28th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
I’ll watch after The Office. :) Have fun, wish I could get an iPhone here in MI, but I can’t.
June 28th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
So are you talent or are you tech. Talent puts you in my union AFRTA, if you opt for tech you could be NABET or CWA. Either way with the amount of air you are hogging, being an AFTRA member would get you talent fees everytime they talked to you. Nabet and CWA you just have to look like you’d break legs. (old joke no offense meant I have worked with both unions)
The reviews: Mossberg gushes the headline is the Iphone is a breakthrough handheld computer.
Steve Levy turned WTOP’s news-talk fm here in DC sort of a brownish hue, talking about how great it is.
I’ve met Walt and I do trust what he wrote. And by the way he has the 1st video on the allthingsd site.
Yeah got to buy some APPL before it becomes too pricey, this is going to print money for Apple.
FYI: AT and T is sponsoring the ATT National with Tiger Woods down the road from where I live at the Congressional Country Club in Potomac, I got a PR release yesterday that talks about the PDA device they will give to fans who ask for it to check the PGA tour website for the scores and the IBM shot link information. ( Palm did this when they were a company) And they also will have a broadband app that will allow you to enter into the the AT and T blue room. And by the way Verizon has the area wired for high speed TV and Internet via fiber.
June 28th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
[...] First in line from Scobleizer by Robert Scoble [...]
June 28th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Best of luck to you and Patrick. I look forward to reading a comparison between iPhone and your Nokia-95 that you have been carrying around. Hope it measures up to its label: God Phone.
I stopped by to visit with Greg Packer, the first guy in line here in New York and got a video clip of him. You can watch it here http://kamlabhattshow.com/blog/2007/06/29/who-gets-new-yorks-first-iphone/
Kamla
June 28th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
oh please, talk about yuppy materialistic hedonism. puh-leez
June 28th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Can’t wait to see your review of it, Robert.
Oh, btw, not sure if you’ve been following ZDNet’s blogger coverage of the iPhone-its been a bit controversial, given the negative aspects they have focused on. Now that Kingsley Hughes dude has resorted to moving from critizing the PRODUCT (iPhone), which is legitimate, to attacking anyone interested in buying the iPhone as “Stupid” (The “Stupid Rich”).
So ZDNet has resorted to attacking users and potential users of a product thru name calling, rather than just reviewing/criticizing a product. Very classy!
(Note that he doesn’t have an iPhone yet of course)
June 28th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Robert,
I followed your example and my two oldest daughters just had to be a part of mobile device history so now we are here first in line at our local AT&T store in Puyallup, WA huddled under umbrellas in the rain. They are 13 and 11 and so now we get to buy 3 iPhones for the family.
Have a fun and safe night and enjoy your iPhone!
June 29th, 2007 at 6:44 am
[...] Scoble ist Nummer 1 in der Warteschlange zum iPhone Abgelegt unter: handy, technik, apple, blog, computer — piratenblog @ das hätte man vor einiger Zeit jetzt auch nicht gedacht, aber Scoble hat ja auch als er noch bei Kleinweich gearbeitet hat, über den Tellerrand geschaut und jetzt war er mit seinem Sohn der erste in der Warteschlange zu Apples iPhone. [...]
June 29th, 2007 at 8:11 am
Hey Matt,
Apple just announced that there are only two Apple phones per customer. How will you handle this?
June 29th, 2007 at 11:11 am
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June 29th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
[...] from being the mobile panacea for tech junkies. So it can only be the design that has the likes of Robert Scoble and other urban campers taking part in the line up outside Apple stores from coast to coast. For [...]
June 30th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
[...] understand why people were waiting in line for over a day. Except maybe my buddy Robert Scoble who turned waiting in line to a major PR coup. As it turned out, many stores had enough on hand so that you could just walk right in and buy [...]
July 1st, 2007 at 9:09 am
[...] Simpatico resoconto di padre e figlio un giorno e una notte in fila fuori dal negozio Apple di Palo Alto in attesa del nuovo iPhone. “Why did I wait in line in Palo Alto and not the more sexy San Francisco? Easy, I knew there’d be more geeks in line here. And the line did not disappoint.” Vero, alla fine arriva anche Steve Jobs! Social Bookmarking: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
July 7th, 2007 at 4:31 am
[...] average American teenager - non other than Patrick Scoble. Little did they know that Patrick stood in line with his dad, Robert Scoble for over 24 hours to lay their hands on an iPhone. Average teenager [...]
July 8th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
[...] wife got an iPhone the day it came out. Robert Scoble got there the day before and slept in line at the Palo Alto store. We stopped by the Palo Alto store around 10 p.m. on iDay, [...]
July 10th, 2007 at 5:34 am
Would you consider getting it unlocked from AT&T so far?
July 12th, 2007 at 4:24 am
[...] wife got an iPhone the day it came out. Robert Scoble got there the day before and slept in line at the Palo Alto store. We stopped by the Palo Alto store around 10 p.m. on iDay, [...]
July 20th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
[...] wife got an iPhone the day it came out. Robert Scoble got there the day before and slept in line at the Palo Alto store. We stopped by the Palo Alto store around 10 p.m. on iDay, [...]
July 26th, 2007 at 10:16 am
The best application of the iPhone I have seen so far was on willitblend.com ;-)