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We Don’t Need No Stinking Apple Store

Posted by Columbo
June 30, 2007

Well, ok, we’d love one for the neighborhood actually. But in the meantime you can still wait in long lines downtown for your iPhone at the AT&T Wireless store at 12th and F. At least you could last night. These shots were taken at around 6:45 pm Friday night.

The line was moving pretty quickly, and stretched around the block.
All told there were probably only 50 or so people in line by the time these photos were snapped, no one around could tell us if the line had been much longer earlier, or at what time it had begun to form.

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Comments
Comment by Anonymous on June 30, 2007 @ 12:43 pm

fyi pentagon city has plenty in stock. 12th st. does not.

Comment by diane lawyer basura on June 30, 2007 @ 2:28 pm

Is ATT a good brand? They use to suck. What happened?

Comment by gpliving on June 30, 2007 @ 2:39 pm

Several years ago, when ATT was transitioning to digital GSM technology, their service was so bad that they lost lots of customers. Shortly thereafter, ATT sold off the wireless part of their business. More recently, ATT bought Cingular and is now in the process of rebranding Cingular as ATT.

So, basically you’re buying & using Cingular when you buy from ATT.

Comment by Anonymous on June 30, 2007 @ 3:14 pm

AT&T still suck in their customer service. The guy at this store gave me incorrect information this morning and claimed that I cannot upgrade my existing phone with them to the Iphone. I pointed out that that was not what either AT&T or Apple say on their websites, but he didn’t seem to care. They have lost a sale to the Apple internet site.

Comment by Anonymous on June 30, 2007 @ 3:15 pm

The line started forming around 2pm. (I could see if from my office window.)

Comment by Anonymous on June 30, 2007 @ 9:04 pm

To add to gpliving’s history… AT&T is not even AT&T even more–SBC bought AT&T and then changed its own name. A baby bell swallowed mama bell, and now they’re trying to establish a wireless presence.

Comment by Anonymous on July 1, 2007 @ 9:25 am

The staff at the ATT store on F street is not my favorite.
They refused to upgrade my service as well, while I am completely eligible for upgrade.

I have been a customer for as long as ATT has had wireless service and have alwyas found them to be great, as long as you stay out of their retail stores. You can get great service over the phone or via their website.

We just use the retail stores to look at the phones that are of interest, and order from the website. This has worked great for years.

Comment by Carrie Broadshoulders on July 2, 2007 @ 1:54 pm

I went to the AT&T store on the 1600 block of Connecticut to get mine and though they said they had enough phones for everyone in line at 6pm, they only sold approximately 40 or 50 phones before they ran out. Which pissed everyone off, me included, because how hard is it to count, know you only have 40 phones in stock and know that you have 80 people in line to tell them they aren’t getting one. I got in the car, drove to Bethesda Apple store and walked in, bought phone (of which they had plenty) and was out in less than five minutes. No line whatsoever. I should have known better than to go to the AT&T store.

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