If Apple haters generally thought that people won’t line up to get their hands on the iPhone 4S, they are so wrong.   Aside from receiving massive online pre-orders last week, Apple stores are swarming with people dying to be the first to get their hands on an iPhone 4S.

And a certain Steve Wozniak was first in line at a California Apple Store on Thursday afternoon.  He was seated in his Pico armchair, armed with a Diet Dr. Pepper and his white iPad to pass the time by browsing through e-mails and connecting with fans.

“I’ll be taking a thousand pictures,” Wozniak whispered with a smile. “I’m going to sit down and see if I can get a little e-mail done, because there’s no way I’m going to get it all done today.”

Just like Jobs, Wozniak is also a tech legend in Silicon Valley and fans took this opportunity to have their picture taken with the Woz, and even have their Apple devices signed.

“Now your phone is not going to be worth as much when you sell it,” Wozniak said to one woman before signing her iPhone 4.

In Manhattan, about 200 people lined up at Apple’s Fifth Avenue store as the iPhone 4S went on sale at 8 a.m. today.  Jobs fans also made a makeshift tribute for him with kind sentiments such as, “I wanted to say ‘Thank You’ to everything that Steve Jobs has done. He’s created so much of what I use in my life and what so many millions of people currently use and have been using. It’s just really awful that he had to die at such a young age,” said Cosmo Sharf.

At a trendy Harajuko neighborhood in Tokyo, Softbank Corp. distributed its first 50 iPhone 4S handsets to those lucky people who picked up their numbered tickets the day before.  The eager customers lined up at 7:45 a.m. Friday morning. Twenty year old student Honami Shinkawa arrived at the KDDI showroom at 6:30 a.m. and said, “I’m so excited to be the first one to get this.”  Though Softbank suffered a three-hour computer glitch that halted their iPhone 4S sales, all systems are back up and running.

“This is a whole new beginning for KDDI,” said President Takashi Tanaka at the ceremony, attended by dozens of reporters. “A year ago I said that KDDI was a laggard in smartphone, and finally we’ve come this far.” The iPhone 4S “really opens up a fascinating new world,” said Mr. Tanaka, who said he bought his first Mac in 1984.

It’s projected that over 4 million iPhone 4S units will be sold just over the weekend.  Apple customers are lining up in Apple stores in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the UK, and the projected sales of the iPhone 4S will outperform the sales of previous iPhone releases.

The early sales success for the new iPhones can be partially attributed to the fact that people want to get their hands on the last Apple product that Jobs had his hands on.  Call it sentimental, but Apple is still rocking the sales!  Take that, Fandroids.