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First Apple iPhone shipments arrive stateside

appleinsider.com — The first retail-bound volume shipments of Apple Inc.'s hotly anticipated iPhone device arrived successfully in the United States this past weekend, touching down quietly at a handful of drop locations just six days before the device is due to go on

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  • meshman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+156Upcoming headlines for the front page:

    "iPhone shipments leave shipping dock"
    "iPhone shipments on their way to Apple stores"
    "iPhone shipments to arrive at Apple stores 'any minute now'.
    "iPhone shipments delayed"
    "iPhone delays due to shipper stubbing toe"
    "In depth interview with toe stubbing iPhone shipper"
    "iPhone finally arrives at Apple Stores"
    "Employees bring cases of iPhones into Apple stores"
    "Employees unpack cases of iPhones at Apple stores"
    "Employees put iPhone's on shelves, close store"
    "Employees of Apple stores, after stocking shelves with iPhones, have smoke break"
    "Manager of New York Apple store takes dump before store opening (w/pics)"
    "Apple store employees complain about odd smell in NY Apple store"
    "Jobs declares, 'Smell was manager, not iPhone.' Manager fired."...


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  • lovemaster, on 10/11/2007, -20/+55buried because ***** all of this iphone *****.
  • bemckenna, on 10/11/2007, -4/+21Best Part:

    "Awaiting the freight at each location on Sunday were armored personnel, who were reportedly hired by Apple through its courier's ground handling agent and then cleared by the Transportation Security Administration. Armed guards are extremely unusual for freight coming out of the Asian sector, those familiar with the matter explained, and are typically reserved for shipments containing riches such as gold and diamonds."
  • roastedbagel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15@meshman

    I logged in on a very slow, poor wifi signal just to mod you up
  • vawksel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11"Awaiting the freight at each location on Sunday were armored personnel, who were reportedly hired by Apple through its courier's ground handling agent and then cleared by the Transportation Security Administration. Armed guards are extremely unusual for freight coming out of the Asian sector, those familiar with the matter explained, and are typically reserved for shipments containing riches such as gold and diamonds."

    Well, lets work this out. One troy ounce of gold is currently $650 per troy ounce which is 31.1 grams (http://goldprice.org/gold-price.html).

    The iPhone weighs in at 135 grams, which is 4.34 troy ounces. If the iPhone were made of gold solid gold for the same weight, it would be worth USD $2,821.

    So, each iPhone rolling in from overseas is worth 21.3% of its weight in gold for the $600 model. Not too bad.
  • LeeSoong, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12Hype extraordinaire !

    Be sure to tell us if somebody in the delivery truck sneezes or stops for a hot dog...
  • adoggz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10If this is the first shipment of iPhone's then how did the people who already have them get them?
  • BMANZZS, on 10/11/2007, -9/+16"First Apple iPhone shipments arrive stateside"

    Who cares? Buried.
  • sinnuendo, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9The iPhone coverage on Digg is rivaling that of Paris Hilton on CNN.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5"UPDATE: Apple shipper's stubbed toe doing better, but still kind of swollen"
  • OhFrak, on 10/11/2007, -7/+12The desperate attempt at hyping this latest overpriced/under-featured Apple product has moved me from complete indifference to outright hate for the iPhone.


  • grizwald, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4All I can say, is that this GD phone better be the best thing since Jesus. The way they are hyping this phone, anything less than jaw dropping will be a major let down.
  • tinygibbles, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4spooky. Keep it coming until all the annoying diggers commit suicide because they can't handle the echo chamber that digg created that keeps hype and news coming from the echo chamber that digg created on digg that digg created iphone iphone iphone
  • TRENT310, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4That would seem to be quite difficult, as the port specification is different.
  • G-RaZoR, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6This comment system sucks.
  • ronnsprocket, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4this reminds me of jp2 when they bring velocaraptors to San Diego....i'm sure apple re-hired jeff Goldblum to make sure it goes well.
  • ricodued, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3If I wanted curses censored, I'd have enabled filtering at the top of the page.
  • madmage, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3"The first retail-bound volume shipments..."

    Retail-bound, key words, those.
  • Kerrigore, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"Awaiting the freight at each location on Sunday were armored personnel, who were reportedly hired by Apple through its courier's ground handling agent and then cleared by the Transportation Security Administration"

    This should read: "Awaiting the freight at each location on Sunday were armored personnel, who were reportedly hired by Apple's Marketing Deparment..."
  • TomFrost, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Care to define that "No one" for us? ;-)
  • zombiedictator, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4We deride news outlets for giving coverage to a talentless socialite while ignoring the problems in Iraq, and yet here we are masturbating over a cell phone.

    Talk about hypocrites.
  • superkendall, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2So at this point, I have to wonder - are some of the iPhone stories being produced by haters? I mean really, I plan to get an iPhone but I didn't need to know when the boxes arrived onshore exactly...
  • tzonic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Indeed. http://digg.com/apple/Apple_To_Deliver_iPhone_via_Armored_Transport
  • TomFrost, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1What word was he going to say? I can't figure it out.
  • abbazabba, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1http://www.myspedspaced.com/noiphone
  • ripfire12901, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Maybe I'd be more excited if I could afford one.
  • jcpiercy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Any boxes fall off the the back of the trucks ...???
    Sounds like these should be in Ft Knox ,,,,
  • Chaos12, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Beautiful comment.
  • lohphat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I see that Chinese slave labor continues to drive the bottom line at Apple.
  • ggriffit, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Jealous...
  • HappyScrappy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1All shipments of this sort for Apple (and others) from China to the US stop in Fairbanks, AK to clear customs. Once the shipments clear customs in Alaska, there is no reason to move them further into the US, unless you think US airspace will be closed in the next couple days.

    Armed guards are not at all unusual when putting stuff into and out of customs clearing houses.

    And just for the record, this cargo isn't even especially (monetarily) valuable for Apple. A container of iPod Nanos is more valuable than one of iPhones, because the Nanos pack in a lot tighter. They're half the price and take less than half the space.
  • rawktavio, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Steve Jobs shows more day by day that he's really Willy Wonka
  • TomFrost, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Man, those grapes are *sour*
  • jordan7485, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Those were preview models.
  • sLydE, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2There is no need for the @username anymore.
  • Rooobbbbb, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0I created an account after reading for over a year just to digg your comment.
  • outbreakofevil, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1C'mon, how did this make the front page? No one cares about the iPhone anymore.
  • jetsetter883, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1***** the iPhone.
  • rawktavio, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0Steve Jobs shows more day by day that he's really Willy Wonka
  • brian118, on 10/11/2007, -9/+6WHOOOO CARRRESSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2"Manager of New York Apple store takes dump before store opening (w/pics)"

    priceless
  • krusader3z, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3This is the most ridiculous thing i've read in awhile.
  • fgiono, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2i hope that it fails
  • minitrucker007, on 10/11/2007, -9/+4No body gives a Sh*t!!!
  • zombiedictator, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3THIS JUST IN DIGG IS INFESTED WITH RABID APPLE FANBOY JERK OFFS WHO HAMMER THE SITE WITH EVERY PIECE OF NON-EVENT NEWS RELATED TO AN OVER-PRICED GIZMO MORE AT 11.

    I seriously think if we nuked Iran it would have less diggs than an "iPhone contract prices released" story.
  • skoops, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2"iPhone debacle: AC fails in Apple 5th Ave Store - People sweating"
  • TerraFire99, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0Armed personell.

    This would is srsly screwed. Srsly.

  • asubigsaxy, on 10/11/2007, -13/+7Blackberry > iPhone
  • ok4you, on 10/11/2007, -8/+0I'm getting wood just thinking about it.

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