In San Francisco, former Microsoft geek blogger Robert Scoble and his son (a big Apple fan) want to buy iPhones and as he says on his blog: "We're still the first two idiots in line. But it's been good for PR. We've been interviewed almost constantly since 9:30am."
They've been featured by Palo Alto Online, with pictures, and The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs blog, which is having a caption competition.
They have also been "posting live video and chatting with people from the line over on Kyte.tv".
The New York queue is headed by Greg Packer, who does this kind of thing often.
Apple staff don't have to queue: "all fulltime Apple employees in the US who have been there for a year will be getting an iPhone at the end of July," reports Ars Technica.
