Bon Jovi nearly made me miss an iPhone
Back in the day, we waited in line to buy the iPhone, and we liked it. When the second iPhone was released – the iPhone 3G – I had the luck of living in New Jersey and working in New York City, which allowed me to experience the iPhone launch in literally the most New Jersey way possible. Bon Jovi was involved.
This was the second iPhone launch, and there had been very long lines for the first one. The very first Apple iPhone in 2007 went on sale at 6pm in the evening, so we waited all through the day. The second iPhone, the iPhone 3G in 2008, went on sale in the morning, and I thought that by then Apple would finally catch up to its demand predictions and this would be an easier iPhone launch with a much shorter wait time. I was partly mistaken.
Not long after the ‘numbers’, a white van pulled up to the line with a radio logo on the side. It was 95.5, WPLJ radio. I knew the station, which played rock and roll that I liked. I thought it was funny – an iPhone launch attracting enough attention for a local radio station. “What’s going on?” I asked the woman in front of me. She was already standing, folding her camping chair, and preparing to leave. The Apple Store wouldn’t even be open for another hour. “Tickets?! What about the iPhone!?” I shot back. I didn’t even ask about the tickets. I was too panicked. I needed an iPhone that day for review, and I was apparently in the wrong line.
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