Friday, September 21, 2012

Pretty sure theft isn't sanctioned by Apple iPhone 5 line monitors


Prior to the door opening at the Cube at 8 a.m. ET in NYC, the line wound all the way down 58th Street. What you're seeing here is the line extending around the block up Madison Avenue around 8:45 a.m. ET.


(Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET)

Some people in Japan found a way around the endless lines for the iPhone 5. They just broke in and took them early.


Thieves took about 200 devices from three phone retailer stores in Osaka in the early hours before the launch, according to The Wall Street Journal. Seventy-five iPhone 5s were taken from a couple KDDI au network brand shops, while 116 were stolen from a Softbank store.


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