About a dozen spots were being saved as of 9 a.m. PT on Thursday at San Francisco's Union Square store, about 24 hours before the iPhone 7 was available. Any inventory sent to stores has already been reserved, which means anyone who hopes, like years past, to walk into an Apple store to buy an iPhone would be out of luck. The trouble is, word hadn't yet made it to some people waiting in line to buy those models of the device. Apple store employees plan to notify people waiting in line, but they hadn't yet made the rounds shortly before 9 a.m. PT on Thursday at the store in San Francisco's Union Square.
Roman Domagalaki, a 22-year-old who moved to San Francisco from Texas a month ago, got in line at about 5:30 a.m, PT Thursday with his girlfriend, who had stepped away at the time CNET stopped by the line, His girlfriend had preordered the iPhone 7 Plus but wouldn't get it until October, They decided to wait in line to get it sooner and hadn't heard that it wouldn't be available in the store, When CNET broke the news to Domagalaki, he was surprised, "They're not [available]?!" he said, "Oh, that is so sad!"Domagalaki said he was going to call his girlfriend to see if she wanted to wait cobalt blue, aqua & gold decorative moroccan tile pattern iphone case for the iPhone 7 instead..
"I'm not sure what she's going to want to do now," he said. "The big thing she wanted was the dual lenses."The first person in line at the Apple store in San Francisco's Union Square sleeps at about 9 a.m. PT on Thursday. But that doesn't stop the person from trying to make a buck. Signs ask for $5 for a photo CNET did not pay to take a picture. When CNET stopped by the Union Square store at 12:30 p.m. PT on Thursday, a couple people toward the front of the line -- Miguel Elias and Justin Harris -- still didn't know about the lack of availability for the phones they wanted, the iPhone 7 Plus in jet black. Instead, multiple Apple Store employees told them didn't know the exact number of devices they'd get at the store but reassured them they'd likely get 7 Plus units. The men were finally informed at about 3:30 p.m. that they weren't going to get the devices. Harris -- who was second in line -- stayed at the store line anyway while Elias decided to leave and try his luck at Best Buy.
Before word that the iPhone 7 Plus had sold out, the phone was expected to arrive in stores on Friday alongside its smaller sibling, The phones appear nearly identical to last year's models but ditch the headphone jack in favor of wireless headphones or headphones that connect through the Lightning charging port, The most noticeable new features are the dual cameras in the 7 Plus cobalt blue, aqua & gold decorative moroccan tile pattern iphone case and the two new black versions, including the shiny jet black model, Apple consistently has long lines of people at its stores to get the newest iPhone the first day it's available, This isn't the first time it's had low supplies of the hottest versions of its devices, but Apple hasn't issued such a warning about no availability before..
September 2013's iPhone 5S launch, for instance, marked the first time Apple sold a gold model of it phone. The first people in line at Apple's flagship store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue waited 15 days for the 64GB gold iPhone 5S only to find out the store had a very limited supply of that device available. The first person in line initially was told the store didn't have that model, but Apple later found one for him. Andreas Francis, who has been in line for eight days at the New York Fifth Avenue store, wants to sell his spot in line since he can't get the iPhone 7 Plus. Still, Apple gave him a $100 gift card for being one of the first 10 people in line.