{"id":7075,"date":"2008-07-17T20:46:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T20:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/iphone_stand_in_line_there_is_no_choice.html"},"modified":"2008-07-17T20:46:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T20:46:39","slug":"iphone-stand-in-line-there-is-no-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/iphone-stand-in-line-there-is-no-choice.html","title":{"rendered":"iPhone: Stand in Line, There is no Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is it about the iPhone that makes it so special that people will stand in line for it for hours on end? I think I may know. I have been trying to get one of these things for about a week and I have driven over 30 minutes looking for AT&T stores that carry this gadget. For the record, this faster iPhone is being purchased for TMC Labs and as president of TMC I thought a perk would be to buy the device. Some perk.<\/p>\n

So I have been the token person who has gone to the AT&T store, learned that the device is sold out<\/a>. I have subsequently called the AT&T store to hear it is sold out. I have looked for an AT&T Wireless store in Westport, CT only to find there are none located there.<\/p>\n

All of this driving, calling and visiting makes me do one thing… Hate Apple and AT&T. Why on earth can I not buy this thing online? Whose idea is this? Steve Jobs? Mr. Jobs — this doesn’t work for me. Why on earth do I want to travel to your stores to buy this product — so you can have shots of people in line? Will I really buy an iMac because of this strategy? Perhaps — but only if the damn device I need is in stock when I come into the store.<\/p>\n

What is even worse is that the company does not offer an email service telling me where this thing will be and when. Sure I know I can log in<\/a> after 9:00 PM and be told which Apple stores have these things in stock but what about the AT&T stores?<\/p>\n

I don’t consider this new device a product launch — it is more of a fiasco if you ask me. How on earth in this day an age can you not allow your product to be sold on the web?<\/p>\n

I would love an answer but I am sure I will have to keep calling to see when one will be available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is it about the iPhone that makes it so special that people will stand in line for it for hours on end? I think I may know. I have been trying to get one of these things for about a week and I have driven over 30 minutes looking for AT&T stores that carry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,170,171,172,1,199,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}