Analyst: iPhone Launch Attracts Longest Line Ever at Apple Flagship Store

Apple's flagship store in New York City always attracts a big crowd on launch days, but the line for the new iPhones this year hit a new record.

There were 1,417 people in line for the launch at the flagship store as of 8 a.m. ET Friday, according to Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, who has surveyed Apple store lines every year since the original iPhone launched in 2007. That is the longest the line ever at the flagship store for an iPhone launch — beating the line for the iPhone 4 — and it marks an 83% increase from the number of people who waited in line there for the iPhone 5.