Despite complaints over a new Maps app and a smaller dock connector, hundreds of Apple fans spent the night outside Apple stores across Southern California hoping to be among the first to grab the iPhone 5.
One of the first to emerge from the Apple store at the Grove shopping center Friday was 25-year-old Tyler Allen, who triumphantly raised his new phone in the air to loud cheers. The manager of a pizza shop said he waited nearly 12 hours in line and played video games to stay awake.
“This phone is so sexy. It’s so sexy,” the Koreatown resident said afterward, in near disbelief. “I feel like I have a Bentley in my hand.”
More than 250 customers lined up at the Grove in the Fairfax district in L.A. About 50 people were lined up on Beverly Boulevard outside the Beverly Center by 6 a.m. At the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, the line snaked down to Wilshire Boulevard, half a block away, where it wrapped around a Banana Republic store.
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