“Apple Inc.’s new iPhone went on sale Friday to eager buyers who had waited in lines around a city block and happily counted down the final 30 seconds before launch.
Takuya Nishizawa poses with his new Apple iPhone outside a SoftBank store Friday in Tokyo, Japan.
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The celebration at Japanese carrier Softbank Corp.’s store in Tokyo had swirls of smoke and a digital clock ticking away over the entrance, part of a rollout in 22 nations, including Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
In the United States, where the gadgets debuted last year, iPhones were becoming available at 8 a.m. in each time zone, giving Apple aficionados time before the weekend to see just how the company upgraded the second version of the device with faster Internet navigation and dozens of new software programs.
In Tokyo, Taichiro Nakamura, a 28-year-old filmmaker, was all smiles as he showed off his brand new iPhone.
The first thing he did was call his girlfriend.
“I’m so happy,” he said, adding the iPhone to his personal gadget lineup that also includes the iPod Touch portable music player. “I’ve been interested for some time.”
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I think Apple is the only company which can do this. Such a big curiosity among buyers of Apple products. Amazingly amazing. Interesting thing is Apple consumer research budget is almost zero or infact zero, which means they do not even care what consumers want. But what they produce is indeed needed by consumers. So, why can’t this philosophy of producing products can be adopted by other companies. Will it work. May be not since those companies do not have Steve Jobs. I think it is the Aura of Steve Jobs and his visionary execution of strategies and a completely different approach to solve things is creating this momentum. Good Job Apple Team, Steve Jobs. Hat’s off to you guys.
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This post was written by techhair on July 11, 2008
