Waitin', whoopin' and hollerin' in seven countries and four languages
Reuters reporting from Australia and Japan, via YouTube
Apple (AAPL) launched the iPhone 4S Friday in Australia, Japan, Germany, France, the U.K., Canada and the U.S.
Videos below the fold as they come in.
See also our report from New York City, 17 days in the iPhone line: Wet, cold and smelling like Cheetos.
Blow-by-blow coverage in English and Korean courtesy of the Wall Street Journal
Source: blogs.wsj.com
The headlines Friday morning were that Samsung had offered Apple (AAPL) a deal that would resolve the patent dispute that has prevented the Korean company from selling its Galaxy 10.1 tablet in Australia.
The excellent courtroom reporting that the Wall Street Journal's David Fickling and Ross Kelly have been providing for the past two days suggest that a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 30, 2011 7:35 AM ET
Apple granted an injunction barring distribution in all of the EU except The Netherlands
Verboten: Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1
A week after Samsung agreed out of court to postpone the launch of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, the leading manufacturer of tablets running Google's (GOOG) Android operating system has suffered a second major setback.
A court in Germany Tuesday granted Apple (AAPL) a preliminary injunction barring distribution of the device in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 9, 2011 1:02 PM ET
Its settlement with Apple does not bode well for devices that "slavishly" copy the iPad
Galaxy Tab 10.1. Look familiar?
If all had gone according to plan, Samsung would have launched its latest tablet computer -- the Galaxy Tab 10.1 -- in Australia on Thursday Aug. 11.
But Apple (AAPL) objected, telling a federal judge in Sydney that the device, based on Google's (GOOG) Android operating system, violated at least 10 Apple MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 2, 2011 7:41 AM ET
Endless queues, whooping Apple staffers, saturation media coverage
Sydney's No. 1 customer. Source: ITN news.
Judging from the early videos, iPad 2 mania may be even more fevered in Australia and New Zealand than it is in the U.S.
The first customer in line at Apple's (AAPL) Sydney store, seen here at right, camped out for 53 hours to buy his second iPad 2 (he picked one up two weeks ago in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 25, 2011 8:11 AM ET
Customers began lining up in Australia two days before the scheduled launch
Waiting for the iPad 2 in Sydney. Photo: BeauGiles via Flickr
Alex Lee, 28, and Marius Eilertsen, 27, armed with folding chairs and blankets, took their places -- Nos. 1 and 2 -- in front of Apple's (AAPL) Sydney, Australia, retail store Wednesday at noon local time, 53 hours before the iPad 2 was scheduled to go on sale. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 24, 2011 10:30 AM ET
Unable to fill U.S. orders, it will make the device unavailable in 25 more countries on Friday
Waiting for the iPad 2 in Philadelphia. Photo: PED
Last week, for reasons I'd rather not examine too closely, I spent the better part of an hour waiting outside an Apple retail outlet in center city Philadelphia only to be told, 50 minutes before the store was scheduled to open, that its promised overnight MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 22, 2011 1:41 PM ET
Pizza Hut and the Queensland tourism board show how web and mobile campaigns can yield real-world business results.
Pizza Hut's iPhone app: Choose your own toppings
Oct 7, 2010 8:58 AM ET
You don't need a translator to follow Friday's 17-country launch of the iPhone 4
Hong Kong gets the iPhone 4: NOWTV via YouTube
One of best things about the movie Babies -- a documentary look at the first year of life in four very different countries -- is that you know what the parents are saying to their children even if you don't understand a word.
It's the same these days with MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 30, 2010 12:38 PM ET
Customers camped out overnight in cities around the world to buy Apple's tablet computer
Source: Reuters Tokyo
[UPDATE: About 1,200 customers had lined up outside Apple's flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district when the doors finally opened at 8 a.m., according to Reuters.]
Rahul Koduri, 22, had been sitting in front of an Apple Store in Sydney, Australia, since 2 a.m. Thursday.
In Tokyo, Takechiyo Yamanaka planted his folding camp chair outside Apple's MORE
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