Apple iPhone comes to town
Published by Jeff June 29th, 2007 in Business.
Monticello’s AT&T store, located on Highway 425 South next Sonic, was a buzz of activity this afternoon as customers lined up to receive Apple’s latest innovation: the iPhone. Apple first released information about the iPhone in January, and media hype has kept the device in headlines ever since.
Matthew Tadlock, 10 years old, from Hamburg used his collected rolled change to buy his own iPhone. He brought his change in a metal briefcase and was sixth in line to purchase the phone.
The local store received a limited number of units, with some customers driving from McGehee, Star City and Hamburg.
Paul Bondoc, an AT&T employee at the Monticello store said that they still had phones as of 8:30 p.m. this evening. The store planned to remain open until 10:00 p.m.
Possibly Related:
Someone should have told this kid the bank has a machine that will take all that lovely change and turn it into dollar bills.
Someone should tell Randy that coins are money and they spend just like dollar bills, apparently the KID knew that!!!!!
Let me put it to you this way Mike, he’s lucky they decided to accept it. You want to count out $1200 in change? I doubt it.
To bad someone didn’t tell the kid that if he had a little patience he could have saved several hundred dollars on the purchase his new toy when the price drops like a rock in a few months.
Well it sounds like in most cases, these are going up on ebay. People have been inflating the bids to well over $20,000 on a item that they are not going to run out of. Steve Jobs is a marketing genius. Or at the very least has one on his payroll. :D
whatever happened to bag phones? the iphone is just one more marketing scam. i hope my son doesnt decide that he needs a touch screen cell phone at age 12. ive been in that cingular store and if the penny saving young lad (of which i commend him for) was 6th served, he must have gotten there around christmas.