![]() ![]() ![]() “There’s no coordination between the mall employees, security and law enforcement,” said Loren McHenry, 42, shaking his head in disbelief. They returned only to learn that 120 people had camped out at a nearby parking lot. Wednesday and were told no one was allowed on mall property overnight. In Aventura, Fla., Loren and Veronica McHenry held out hope after miscommunications landed them at the back of the line. In Paris, 24-year-old shoe salesman Julien Remy went to buy one during his lunch break, only to learn the store had run out of the higher-capacity model he wanted. “They have been advertising and hyping for months,” administrative assistant Jasmine Cordova, 25, said outside New York’s Fifth Avenue store. Customers in line were left guessing about whether they’d get one. Those who didn’t place an iPhone 4 order had to line up outside Apple stores Thursday in the hopes of snagging one on a first-come, first-served basis. On Apple’s website, new orders weren’t promised for delivery until July 14. ![]() More than 600,000 people had rushed to pre-order iPhones on the first day they were available, prompting Apple and its exclusive wireless partner in the U.S., AT&T Inc., to stop taking orders for pickup or shipment by Thursday’s launch. “I’m probably going to spend all morning playing with it.” “I’m like a kid in a candy store,” Hill said. Sean Hill, 39, a Washington police officer who pre-ordered an iPhone, smiled and proudly held it up for the crowd to see as he left the newly opened Apple store in the Georgetown neighborhood. ![]()
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