This Is What Its Like to Wait Overnight for an iPhone 5

I left my apartment at 1:53 a.m. this morning and arrived at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store at around 2:20 a.m. Six hours later, I had an iPhone 5 in my possession.

When the original iPhone was released in 2007, the public was shocked that individuals were willing to wait for hours in line -- often overnight and sometimes for several days -- just to get a new gadget.

Five years (and six phone launches) later, the lines are an expectation -- even if the public at large still finds the concept of waiting overnight for a phone ridiculous.

Still, each year, more and more individuals line up for the latest iPhone (and now iPad). In fact, a sort o…
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