FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germans lined up to buy Apple Inc.’s
iPhone as it made its European debut Friday, with the company hoping to replicate the success the combination phone, music player and mobile Web browser has seen in the United States.

Apple hopes to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008, helped by the launch of the iPhone in Europe, then in Asia next year. It goes on sale in Britain later Friday. The company has already sold more than 1.39 million since it debuted in the United States on June 29.

In Germany, the phone went on sale at more than 700 T-Mobile shops. One store in Cologne opened just after
midnight to some 350 would-be buyers already lined up.

Johannes Krause, 32, waited for nearly four hours to get inside, but said it was worth the wait. He said he had wanted to his get his hands on an iPhone since it was announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in January.

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