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CNET Update - iPhone 5S launch day gold rush

2013-09-20
so what color iphone do you want to get gold well you're not gonna get it I'm Bridget Carey and this is a special edition of CNN update another iPhone launched another iPhone line but this time things are a little more complicated we have two phones going on sale and the top-of-the-line iPhone 5s which people are here in line for comes in three different colors and people are not going to get the color they want so we're here to talk to people in line to see what they think and why they felt the passion to come out here today you're battling this crazy long line that's wrapping around the block what phone do you want to get I want to get an iPhone 5s and what color I haven't decided actually so I'm secretly hoping that there's only one color left but maybe I go for gold I'm getting the silver one and she's going to get the gold one you don't want gold to figure some more silver not gold not gold no so why gold it's a new color I've got a lot of gold you know rings and everything so I don't need gold iPhone I'm going for the silver if they have it you're gonna go for silver not gold isn't gold then you color though yeah go about it um I feel a little girly for me to get the gold one like my sister wants to get the gold one so I'm like I can't get the same as my sister are you gonna be disappointed if you don't get gold yeah I think so I mean it's different I've had every iPhone so you know you kind of like to get something different but it'll be fine either way why did you want to come here though on the busiest day to get it why did you have to be the first to get this phone I don't I feel like a sucker but if I like just I had to do it so if you can't get gold what are you gonna go with how are you gonna be able to go on I might just like Gorder online honestly you might abandon it altogether this line getting here this early and say if I can't get gold you're gonna just try again later yeah I know it pains me it pains me to say that there was an extremely limited supply of gold and silver iPhones online orders made early Friday indicated a month long wait for delivery of a gold phone even the first dozen people in line at this store couldn't all get a gold phone and reports came in from across the country of similar shortages some carrier stores didn't get any iPhones at all to sell on launch day but this Apple store did have plenty of the black space gray models no silver just black well at the flagship New York City Apple store they did sell out fast of the gold and silver but even so people will still wait in line just to get the iPhone no matter what color it is for CNET I'm Bridget Carey
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