This photo is of my local Apple store. The estimated wait is currently over 5 hours (at 11:30am) and I counted at least 250 people in line. I chatted briefly with some of the people at the front of the line, expecting them to be latecomers, but it turns out they had been waiting since 8:15am (when they arrived they were around 35th in the line).

My next stop was an AT&T store, where things were not much better. The line is about 50 people long, and once again they only let a few people into the store at a time. The best part? They don’t actually have any more iPhones but the store staff are not telling anyone this (verbally or with a simple sign). Instead, you wait in line for 2-3 hours, order one, then get sent home with a “it’ll be here some time next week”. People walking out are leaving with nothing more than a printout of their order, but none of the folks in line seem to care.