Some eager Chinese Apple fanboys queued for three days outside Apple’s Beijing retail store to be the first in line to purchase the Wi-Fi Apple iPad.
Apple employees handed out umbrellas as the lashing rain failed to dampen spirits. Coffee and water was also distributed to those waiting in line outside of Apple’s first retail store in China. As staff readied the store for the barrage of customers, over a hundred people lined up in front of the store, with latecomers continuing to trickle in.
Joanne Carter BA (Hons), ARPS is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator, and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.She holds a First Class Honours degree in Photography and is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS).Her journalism, criticism and editorial work have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography and NikonPro, among other international publications.Through TheAppWhisperer, she brings together academic knowledge, professional photographic expertise and more than 17 years of specialist editorial experience to examine contemporary photography, mobile imaging, computational photography, photographic applications and emerging imaging technologies.