--- title: iPhone 6 Release: One of First People to Get One Drops it on Live TV description: Woops canonical: https://time.com/3403468/iphone-6-drop/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-19T13:17:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:08.049Z og:title: iPhone 6 Release: One of First People to Get One Drops it on Live TV og:description: Woops og:url: https://time.com/3403468/iphone-6-drop/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: iPhone 6 Release: One of First People to Get One Drops it on Live TV twitter:description: Woops twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # One of the First People to Get an iPhone 6 Immediately Dropped it on Live TV > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Sep 19, 2014 1:17 PM UTC  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Sep 19, 2014 1:17 PM UTC If you think about [how long](http://time.com/3402723/iphone6-line-apple-release/) this guy must have waited in line to be the first man in Perth, Australia, to get Apple’s new [iPhone 6](http://time.com/3393345/iphone-6-reviews/) released Friday, it’s hard not to grimace—and chuckle—a little at this clip. Poor kid. Hope the phone is OK. Then again, if it’s not, maybe you’ve got your gear all set up to get in line all over again. ### See the World Await and Celebrate Apple's iPhone 6  People pass time as they wait outside an Apple store for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in London on Sept. 17, 2014. Lefteris Pitarakis—AP  People wait in line in front of the Apple Store in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2014. Yuya Shino—Reuters  A man sleeps in a tent in the queue outside an Apple store in London on Sept. 18, 2014. Justin Tallis—AFP/Getty Images  A man wearing a replica of an iPhone 6 Plus model on his head yawns while waiting in front of an Apple Store in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2014. Yuya Shino—Reuters  A woman sleeps in a chair as she waits in queue outside the Apple store in London on Sept. 18, 2014. Justin Tallis—AFP/Getty Images  A staff member removes a display poster of iPhone 5S at an Apple store in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2014,. Yuya Shino—Reuters  Customers queue outside an Apple store in Hong Kong on Sept. 19, 2014. Xaume Ollerose—AFP/Getty Images  Ken Miyauchi Vice President of Softbank, Japanese mobile phone company and actress Sayaka Kanda, in a pink dress, react during a ceremony to mark the first day of sales of the latest iPhone 6 and 6 Plus at a store in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2014. Shizuo Kambayashi—AP  After being first in line for 19 days, Moon Ray, from Jackson, Miss. runs the gauntlet of Apple store workers as she enters the Fifth Avenue Apple store in New York on Sept. 19, 2014. Peter Foley—EPA  Apple store staff high five customers as they enter an store in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2014. Chris McGrath—Getty Images  A man wearing a mask depicting Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs holds up a cardboard cut-out of Apple's new iPhone 6, as he walks into an Apple Store in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2014. Yuya Shino—Reuters  Andreas Gibson celebrates as he exits an Apple store in New York after being the first to purchase an iPhone 6 Plus on Sept. 19, 2014. Julie Jacobson—AP  Jamael Ahmed jumps in the air as he leaves the store after being the first to purchase the iPhone 6 at Apple Covent Gardens in London on Sept. 19, 2014. Ben A. 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