Apple Stores Closed at 2pm, iPhone Wait

Here at Easton in Columbus OH, Apple Store employees are putting up black screens over the windows to hide what they are setting up inside.

They started at around 2:05 and they are almost done covering all windows. Guards at the entrance are turning people away telling them that the store will reopen at 6pm.

HERE WE GO FOLKS

siiiiick,,, can t wait for iphone to come to canada...if it ever does...

And so it begins...

I was really hoping for a big yellow post-it note.

doesn't look like Easton has a line at all, huh?

i'm in Columbus, stuck at work. was planning on going to the AT&T store down at the South Campus Gateway, figured Easton would be a mess.

doesn't look like Easton has a line at all, huh?

i'm in Columbus, stuck at work. was planning on going to the AT&T store down at the South Campus Gateway, figured Easton would be a mess.

thats what i was thinking too, could it be thats ecurity guards are not allowing people to stay or camp out in line? im pretty sur ei ve seen some people camping out for a couple of days though

now that i look at the pic again, there are tops of several heads at the bottom of the picture, like they are sitting on the curb. and there is a black "rope" there?

I was really hoping for a big yellow post-it note.

That would look so awesome!

There are probably still under a hundred people here. The reason you can't see the line is because I can't put photos up without people's consent, and I happened to get lucky with a shot with hardly any people in it.

My girlfriend and I are 17th and 18th in line, been here since 7:40am :D

The line is decent already, but I think people getting here at 4PM needn't worry about scoring an iPhone this evening. Good luck to all! :)

EDIT: here's the Easton Meetup Thread... http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=317470

What are they trying to hide? Everyone knows what the iPhone looks like.

OMG--they are covering the windows for the new iMacs :apple: