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iOS 6 Expected To Arrive At 1 P.M. Eastern, 10 A.M. Pacific

(6:03 am PDT, Sep 19th 2012)

iOS 6 Expected To Arrive At 1 P.M. Eastern, 10 A.M. Pacific

What time will iOS 6 arrive in your country?

With iOS 6 making its public debut today, I’m sure some of you are sitting in front of iTunes with your iOS device plugged into your computer, mashing that ‘Update’ button as much as humanly possible in the hope that any time now, Apple will open the gate. Well, you may want to give your fingers a rest, because it could be a few hours yet before iOS 6 drops.

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Check Out The Insanely Huge Crowd That Showed Up For Apple’s Grand Central Opening [Photo]

(7:46 am PDT, Dec 9th 2011)

Check Out The Insanely Huge Crowd That Showed Up For Apple’s Grand Central Opening [Photo]

Holy crap. Check out this photograph of all the people who queued up for the opening of Apple’s new Grand Central Terminal location, as photographed by Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt. You’d think this was an iPhone 5 launch!

Also interesting to me: look at the number of Apple Geniuses on hand. Most stores would be lucky to have that many customers at once, let alone need that number of employees to handle their customer base.

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