The pope ruined the iPhone 6S launch

The pope and rhythmic clapping — that’s what I’ll remember about the iPhone 6S launch at Apple’s glass cube-topped flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

The Pontiff wasn’t there — he’d driven by in his Fiat hours earlier — but his presence was felt as he sucked with him virtually all the excitement and media interest that normally attended an Apple iPhone store launch event.

There were hundreds lined up for their new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, but there were also fewer people at one of these events than I have ever seen before. Gray-shirted Apple employees gathered just outside the store did their best to drum up excitement, hence the clapping, which would start low and slow and then pick up pace, invariably ending in a cheer. Read more...