Bandits Steal Berlin IPhone Cash, Showing Payment Hurdle
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If bandits rob banks because that’s where the money is, then it makes sense to hold up an Apple Store in Germany on the day after a new iPhone is released -- because that’s where the cash is.
Late Saturday afternoon, with would-be iPhone buyers still queuing in front of Apple Inc.’s marble-and-glass emporium on Berlin’s Kurfuerstendamm, three masked gunmen stormed a security company’s van that was hauling away the pile of euros the store had taken in over the weekend.