Apple Orchard Road, Singapore

Apple fans have waited all night in some places and videos capturing their iPhone XS and Apple Watch Series 4 exploits are beginning to percolate across the interweb. Apple’s annual phone-fest has begun.

Updated with more images as Apple releases new pictures from Dubai and London.

iPhone queues across the planet

While I don’t think the queues were as intense as they used to  be, plenty of people were seen waiting outside some of the bigger Apple shops.

Apple CEO, Tim Cook, opened the doors to U.S. iPhone purchasers at Apple’s Palo Alto shop, while head of retail, Angela Ahrendts, was seen doing a meet and greet to customers at the company’s flagship Union Square San Francisco premises.

Tim Cook cheers shoppers as the doors open on iPhone XS day.

They queued up in Singapore

But you got to admire Huawei’s chutzpah in handing out power banks to Apple users in an iPhone queue….

They queued in London, though this may turn out to be the last shopping gasp before that dreadful Tory party creates national economic collapse out of its botched Brexit.

It wasn’t just on YouTube… Twitter has similar feeling.

Crowds queue overnight in Dubai Mall ahead of iPhone launch https://t.co/B09Y20EMxe pic.twitter.com/D7BZI72lTa

— The National (@TheNationalNews) September 20, 2018

They queued in Dubai

Germany: Berliners queue for days to nab new iPhone XS#Apple #iPhoneXS pic.twitter.com/4cRUgNsoyW

— IndSamachar News (@Indsamachar) September 21, 2018

Berlin? There was a queue…

@Beijing queue at the Apple Store Sanlitun…IPhone Xr & S pic.twitter.com/zaQ5ei3GgQ

— Guillaume Portier (@PortierG) September 21, 2018

In China, Beijing showed its interest, too

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Apple’s image gallery

Apple has published images of the first iPhones and Apple Watches going on sale, featuring pictures from Singapore, Japan and Sydney. I guess we’re still waiting for the first footage to emerge from the U.S. of A.