iPhone lines cost US over 10 years of productivity

Author: mike

iPhone lines cost US over 10 years of productivity

Friday, June 29th, 2007 @ 6:00 pm

It slices and dices and make julian fries Using just a little bit of math, the 11 cities I tracked represented 8,790 person-hours of line-waiting. With 140 Apple stores nationwide (not even counting AT&T stores, by the way), this represents 7.8% of all stores. A tiny bit of extrapolation later and we have 111872 person-hours spent waiting in line

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