Apple fans courageous rain and cold to camp overnight for iPhone 6s

The man who clinched pole position is Sam Shaikh, 18, who sent up camp outside the Apple store in Covent Garden on Monday – ahead of Friday’s launch.

Outside the mall, over 30 stores along a 1km stretch of shops carry Apple’s giant white logo. Although they’re not on display in the counters, shop owners are willing to fetch them for you in their back inventory. But it is slow for a new phone and the photos it takes appear fuzzy.

‘I arrived last night at ten.

Apple declined to comment on the proliferation of unauthorised stores in China but said it recommended customers to go to its website and buy products from one of the thousands of authorised dealers across the country. Some shops have blocked signs that read “authorized Apple seller” with promotional banners and covered Apple logos on staff uniforms with stickers, although several vendors said business had not been affected.

“Many people, especially people in their 20s and 30s, really like Apple”.

Some analysts said the presence of fake Apple stores could be a good thing for the company as they promote brand awareness in a country that had just 22 Apple stores in the third quarter, with plans to raise that number to 40 by the middle of 2016. And I didn’t even know there was one coming out’. They think they have face [status].

While sleeping on the street sounds less than ideal, it will all be worth it when they walk out with the latest toys.

He’s brought two iPhones with him to get him through to Friday.

Earlier this summer, a massive iPhone counterfeit operation was shut down in Beijing, China. It may have the actual components of the Apple parts and the iOS, but it could have been assembled from parts that were sent out originally to China for recycling.

“We’ve already started seeing this with Samsung handsets which have seen a rapid increase in trade-in volumes over the past few days, indicating that it’s not only Apple users who are keen to get their hands on the new iPhone”. “This compares to a mere 7% drop in the trade-in value of the iPhone 5S in the two weeks after the iPhone 6 was released in 2014”. On the other hand, if you don’t mind using an Android phone that looks like an iPhone, then a counterfeit may be for you.