There’s someone lining up at the Apple Store with an iPad robot

WHY line up for a new iPhone in person when you could get your iPad to do it for you? That’s what’s happening in Sydney right now.

WHY line up for a new iPhone in person like a pleb when you could get your iPad to do it for you?

That’s the idea of one Sydney lady who had her iPad lining up for her outside Apple’s Australian flagship store on George Street in Sydney.

The iPad was fourth in line at the store, with a long line queuing up behind her ready to be one of the first to grab Apple’s new iPhone 6s.

Lucy Kelly is hoping to be the first “robot” to purchase an iPhone and set up her machine stand-in, with iPad attached, outside the store about 4am yesterday morning, The Daily Telegraph reported. Eventually she got in just about 8AM today and purchased it with an American Express card that was originally blu-tacked to her back.

Ms Kelly was chatting to confused passers-by from her home yesterday while she made Vegemite toast for breakfast. She said she would stay online throughout the day, and night, and make her way to the store this morning to buy the phone.

Lucy Kelly has prime position in the Apple line thanks to her Atomic 212 robot, controlled remotely. AP Photo/Glenn Nicholls

She said Atomic 212, the media agency that she works for, had many of the robots around the office and came up with idea to put one out the front of the Apple store last week.

“I want an updated version of the iPhone but I wasn’t going to wait in the cold and rain to get one,” she laughed. “I want to be the first robot to buy an iPhone.”

With the iPhone 6s release today, telcos and Apple stores have been inundated with iPhone fans on their Apple Christmas morning.

Already, all models are sold out online from Apple and if you haven’t pre-ordered from a carrier it’s likely you’ll miss out on the most popular models.

Limited stock was available, with Apple stores and carriers already sold out of several models. There were reports that some stores had as little as 6 iPhones in total to sell from day one that all sold out in minutes.

Vodafone has reported that they’ve shipped around 15,000 of the new iPhones today to customers, with the most popular being the new “Rose Gold” colour in 64GB form.

Interestingly, telcos have found that both the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus have sold in near equal levels - much different to last year when the iPhone 6 heavily outsold the iPhone 6 Plus.

Despite it raining overnight hundreds have lined up outside Sydney’s Apple Store.

With Australia being one of the few launch countries, the majority in the line have come from overseas to buy a device to bring back home.

Most of them spent the night playing mahjong, like a first world hipster camp fire.