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Just over a week after the death of Steve Jobs brought the company he co-founded the new iPhone on Friday 4S on the market. Even firms co-founder Wozniak was standing in line.
Alone in New York, about 200 buyers had gathered early in the morning before an Apple store on Fifth Avenue. In California's Los Gatos camped Steve Wozniak, a former partner of jobs, the night before the launch of a business before.
The new smartphone is equipped with a faster software and an improved camera. Apple fans praise but also dated erstwhile company boss embossed Design.Critics had complained in the first consultation, the changes were not radical enough.
The success of the new model still seems assured. According to the company since Monday were already pre-ordered more than a million new smartphones - significantly more than the previous model last year.
Marketing experts see the crowds also an effect of the recent death of the founder.Supporters celebrated the new iPhone as a tribute to Jobs - 4S should probably "Steve" ("For Steve") mean, concluded some Apple fans. The sale started on Friday, first in the U.S., Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Japan and Great Britain. In 22 other countries the phone will be available until the end of the month.
From a garage workshop to global player
Wozniak was after a night outdoors after all one of the first who managed to secure a new iPhone 4S - although he had already ordered two phones in his own words. With emails and chats he wanted itself shorten waiting time he announced on Thursday in NBC 11 than he presented himself than first before Store Los Gatos. In 1976 Wozniak had jointly with Steve founded Jobs in a garage the company that belongs today the largest technology corporations World.
