Return to opening Apple Store Opening Tyson's Corner, Virginia May 19, 2001 Roughly a year after the debut of the Washington Apple Pi Unsteadicam™ at MacWorld New York City 2000, this much-despised innovation returns. Exactly how long was the line to the Apple Store? We took our Unsteadicam™ (a Nikon CoolPix 990 still digital camera with the ability to take lots of still photos real fast to simulate a video clip, without sound) and walked most of the length of the line, starting near the rear and walking within 100 feet of the front. A middle section of around 150 feet was skipped (because the camera stopped recording and saved its buffer). You'll quickly see why it is called Unsteadicam™. Requires QuickTime. We start our journey almost at the back of the line. It is 9:30 a.m., and these patient souls won't see the inside of the store for almost two hours. (QuickTime, 5.9 megabytes, 40 seconds) After a brief gap of around 150 feet (the camera stopped recording and saved the images to disk) we pick up the trail again.. (QuickTime, 5.9 megabytes, 40 seconds)