Comments(19)

Comment by Kate at 4:31 pm on 10 July 2008

Where are their girlfriends?





Comment by simmsy at 4:47 pm on 10 July 2008

loving the #7 position!





Comment by Ben Lilley at 4:50 pm on 10 July 2008

Number #8 reporting in.





Comment by Craig at 4:58 pm on 10 July 2008

@Kate: Girlfriends are on their laps.





Comment by Rod at 5:09 pm on 10 July 2008

This is cool

http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/10/meet-the-worlds-first-first-ten-iphone-3g-owners/





Comment by Ben Lilley at 5:42 pm on 10 July 2008

Loving the girlfriend comments! I’m pretty sure everyone in first 10 has a girlfriend :) I fully understand the abuse though I wasn’t even planning on queuing to be honest.





Comment by Cam Trollope at 5:53 pm on 10 July 2008

Oh man. Glad im not buying one now. This is just sad





Comment by roman at 7:39 pm on 10 July 2008

Can you imagine this lining up… http://www.blackberrycool.com/2005/10/28/001023/





Comment by Dermott Renner at 8:50 pm on 10 July 2008

Maybe they should read this report on the new 3G iPhone

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2184





Comment by sue at 11:53 pm on 10 July 2008

the guy who is out from the states is an amusing story getting some good promotion for his business, so you’ve got to give him props for that one.





Comment by sue at 11:54 pm on 10 July 2008

and the guy from wishcollector is a nice story as well





Comment by jsf at 4:19 am on 11 July 2008

Somewhat relevant - I came across this mildly-amusing comic strip earlier this morning…
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1125.html





Comment by Nina at 11:37 pm on 11 July 2008

A story for the grandchildren …





Comment by GI at 9:03 am on 12 July 2008

I decided not to line up in Auckland as by 10pm Thursday evening there were over 150 people in the queue and the info on the street was that the Queen St store only had about 150 phones…..so I decided to log on at 12:01am and see if I could buy a phone through the Vodafone store.

….voila, I made my purchase at 12:02am Friday morning and sat back expect a 3 day delivery (as it stated on the site).

next thing I know I get a delivery at 3pm friday afternoon (like 15 hours later) with a courier and my shiny new 16GB 3G iPhone.

why would I wait in line when I can do it from the warm comfort of home?

great service Vodafone….





Comment by Nathan at 8:53 pm on 12 July 2008

Correct me if I am wrong but I was sure I saw a news article where Vodafone “planted” a guy into the line to buy the new iPhone - in fact he was first in line, which led to hype and news coverage , heightening the ‘drama’ and ‘excitement’ regarding the phone.

Some might say ‘what a great marketing ploy’ and it was, if it is true, but what is starting to rub me up the wrong way is that this, along with other things is starting to turn me away from the brand. The fact that we (Ninetwenty) are a current Vodafone business customer and the service we receive is horrible (Account Managers not returning phone calls or e-mails and broken promises).





Comment by ChrisW at 10:30 am on 14 July 2008

Kiwibank first with a site optimised for the iPhone:
https://www.kiwibank.co.nz/mobile/index.asp





Comment by Steve Biddle at 9:09 pm on 14 July 2008

It wasn’t Vodafone that planted the guy first in the line - it was the Yellow Pages Group.





Comment by Paul Brislen at 8:53 am on 15 July 2008

And the Herald has an optimised version of its site for the iPhone…

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/





Comment by Al at 8:57 am on 15 July 2008

Welcome back from your expertly timed holiday Paul.

Any comments on the backlash to the plans?

In particular the consensus that the balance of data and minutes isn’t quite right?





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