In pics: Apple fans in Delhi, Mumbai line up as iPhone 16 goes on sale

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In the crowd, there was also a guy who brought his laptop and was working while waiting in the queue.

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A customer named Ujjwal Shah waited for about 21 hours outside the Mumbai store for the first sale of the iPhone 16 series. He was the first person to enter the Mumbai store at 8AM.

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