Was the All-Night iPhone 5S Line Worth the Wait?

It is perhaps the greatest pedestrian rubbernecking opportunity in the world — the annual line for the new iPhone. But for those of us in the actual line, it often can feel more like being in a zoo.

For the first time in a number of years, I took my place on the primary iPhone queue, the one at New York City's flagship glass cube store on Fifth Avenue across the street from the Plaza Hotel. I showed up at 2:30 a.m., after my weekly Thursday night poker game petered out. (I won $65.)

And sitting on my collapsible director's chair (complete with cup holder in the right arm rest) on West 58th St. around 300 spots from the front of the line in the middle of the night I felt distinctly like an idiot Read more...