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Shoppers line up in New York for Apple's first foldable iPhone

Apple limited buyers to two iPhone Duos per person per day, and preorders already carry a backlog said to stretch into early next year; the line was free.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorQuestion one for Dale, because he asked it: what happened?

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorApple's first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, went on sale, and the line outside the Fifth Avenue store in New York stretched multiple blocks by five a. m.

  3. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFive a. m. The doors opened at eight. Three hours standing on Fifth Avenue for a phone you could have had delivered.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorApple says people came to try it and get hands-on help.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe Taipei Times says a Los Angeles store ran out for anyone who showed up after about six-thirty.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorDoes this affect me? I haven't bought a phone since the last one stopped being a phone.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIt costs one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars for the 256-gigabyte one, and buyers are limited to two per person per day.

  8. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorPreorders opened October sixteenth, and a backlog is said to stretch into early next year.

  9. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwo. Per day. So someone is selling the second one in the same line.

  10. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWhat happens next: it goes on sale in twenty-eight more countries and regions on October thirtieth. Scoring? Big crowds, real line, full marks.

  11. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe phone is two thousand dollars, the line is free, and only one of them sold out by six-thirty.

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