Buying an iPhone is easy now, but people were sleeping on sidewalks for the first model

The iPhone 18 Pro officially hits store shelves today (September 18). You could likely pop into an Apple store or other retailer and grab one on your way home from work if you didn’t already pre-order it online. But, it wasn’t always this easy to get an iPhone. In fact, the first release back in 2007 was so competitive that it took a handful of PopSci editors battling long lines across the country just to get one we could write about. John MahoneyNobody, including Apple, knew whether