Rain Doesn’t Stop Leopard From Roaring in NYC
Monday, October 29th, 2007Even pouring rain and gusty winds didn’t stop the Mac faithful from turning out for the release of Apple’s Mac OS X “Leopard” at the Apple Store in New York’s SoHo neighborhood Friday night.
The sidewalk in front of the store and around the corner was a sea of colored umbrellas as about 200 people lined up to be among the first to purchase Leopard in North America. Those who hadn’t prepared for the weather hunched under pieces of cardboard or just got wet, as people bustled past on busy Prince Street and wondered aloud what all the fuss was about.
The New York launch was part of a worldwide rollout of Leopard, which went on sale at 6 p.m. local time around the world Friday, beginning in Australia and New Zealand. Rain also plagued the Leopard launch in Tokyo, which marked the first place the OS went on sale at an official Apple Store, but didn’t deter users from lining up ahead of the time there, either.