The long lines of people eager to get their hands on Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s latest iPhones took on a new flavor this year, as queues swelled with tourists joining in the revelry to buy handsets that aren’t yet available back home.
Russians standing in line in Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm sang “Katyusha” and drank vodka, while Brazilians traveled halfway across the world to Sydney to pick up the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models. Mandarin, Vietnamese and Spanish were being spoken outside San Francisco’s Apple Store.
“We decided to line up because it’s cheaper here,” said Eva Trancoso, 27, who was in Tokyowaiting with two other Dutch tourists at a shop in Shibuya. “And it won’t be available in Holland” for a while, she said.
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