Apple fanatics line up overnight for new foldable iPhone Duo but not everyone left a happy customer

Apple’s first foldable iPhone sparked a launch-day circus in New York on Friday, with fans lining up for hours — and in some cases overnight — before stores opened, only to find some flagship locations were already out of walk-in stock by mid-morning.At Apple’s glass-cube Fifth Avenue store, a video posted online showed a “massive queue” around 4:15 a.m.as customers waited for the new iPhone Duo.By 10 a.m., a Reddit user posted that the store had “ran out of stock for walk-ins,” adding that the remaining line was made up of customers with confirmed pickup orders.The frenzy began well before dawn.One launch-day customer, Alex Wong, told The US Sun he got in line at 2 p.m.

Thursday — a full 18 hours before the Fifth Avenue store’s 8 a.m.opening — and was still only around 25th in line.Elsewhere in the city, crowds and inventory varied sharply from store to store, underscoring just how uneven Apple’s launch-day supply appeared to be.At the World Trade Center store, one Reddit user wrote that employees came out at 6 a.m.

to start processing orders and that there were “probably 200 people in line.”The same poster complained: “Many scalpers.Many ordering 2, don’t even know what they’re ordering.”Another poster at the same location estimated the crowd at “maybe 130 people” and said store staff had warned shoppers there were “very few units” available.At Apple’s Upper East Side location, a Reddit user summed up the mood more bluntly: “Apple UES NYC — sold out for walk-ins .”Downtown Brooklyn offered a slightly different picture.

One earlier post estimated about 50 people were outside, while another shopper later reported: “WAITED IN LINE, THEY JUST GOT STOCK.ONLY BLUE AS OF 9:18 AM.”The run on the Duo comes after Apple warned that walk-in quantities at US stores would be limited on launch day.The social media chatter suggests the scarcity only added to the hype.In Chicago, one buyer said he arrived 45 minutes befor...