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Huge lines in Tokyo greet the arrival of Apple’s revolutionary iPad

Friday, May 28, 2010 · 9:12 am · 26 Comments

TV Asahi covers the huge lines in Tokyo for Apple’s revolutionary and magical iPad:

[Attribution: The Wall Street Journal. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Fred Mertz" for the heads up.]

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Ampar

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:16 am · Reply

Go, go Padzilla ! ! !
Ampar

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:19 am · Reply

“History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men”

PADZILLA ! ! !
Mr Flish

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:19 am · Reply

Guess those rumors that Apple and there products weren’t very popular in Japan were slightly off the mark….Ballmer’s got to be loving this stuff…
Tony

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:27 am · Reply

This thing doesn’t play on my iPad. Apparently not all movies on YouTube are H.264.
Ampar

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:30 am · Reply

Are there any karaoke iPad apps?
NCG598

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:32 am · Reply

No play on my iPad either.
Jersey_Trader

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:35 am · Reply

72% of the smart phones in Japan are iPhones. Soon 95% plus of the tablet market will be iPads. The government in Japan wanted to push away from the Microsoft Windows dominance there. I have to believe that the Mac will be 50% of the PC market. It already far exceeds 50% in USA universities.

The SS Microsoft Titanic hit the ice and is going down.
breeze

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:38 am · Reply

The conquest begins!
Jersey_Trader

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:38 am · Reply

Hi Mr Flish. Other than Bill Gates, who would tell Steve Ballmer about this? Someone could slip a note under his door and run. RUN FAST. VERY FAST!
Jersey_Trader

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:46 am · Reply

breeze, “The conquest” is more than half over and Microsoft and the others are waking up to this and starting to panic. Example: When the PC box makers realize that the only growth that they had last year was in the netbooks and the iPad just crushed 80% to 95% of that, REALITY IS GOING TO BE HARD TO IGNORE EVEN FOR THE DELUSIONAL.

What will they do when Steve Jobs talks about the BILLION DOLLAR SERVER FARM that is now up and running giving Apple 4 to 5 times more server capacity. What is Apple going to do with that? I have many great ideas and Steve Jobs has even more!
EAR52069

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:53 am · Reply

Loving this right now. They were warned with the iPod and with the iPhone. Now iPad bloodbath is here and it’s about to get pretty messy. Mothers, fathers, grandmas, grandpas, kids, grandkids everyone will have one of these. And crazy thing is Apple hasn’t even dropped the price yet like they did with the iPods and iPhones. Once that happens the fakes to come can forget it. They need to closed up shop and call it a day. BLOODBATH!!!
Somebody set up us the bomb

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 10:11 am · Reply

All your iPad are belong to us.
G4Dualie

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 10:17 am · Reply

In a land where everything is small and orderly, desktop computers, like American military, looked so out of place.

But the iPad, like the American military, is a god-send and will not be denied.

The iPad will transform the lifestyle of the Japanese culture in
ways we can only imagine. This zen-like device will capture the hearts and minds of every student who was told a desktop computer would cramp the home’s lifestyle, or told the laptop has no place in education because of the limitations of the keyboard, can now rejoice.

The Japanese will lead the way in this devices application. In the marketplace, the assembly lines, education, and it will find its way into Japanese exports.

I’m expecting a flood of software
applications, for everything from graphical restaurant menus also used to take food orders, to managing train fares and connections.

With this device, they will lead and we will follow, just as it was with the transistor.

iPad sales will eclipse iPhone sales almost immediately
Mr. Reeee

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 11:12 am · Reply

NOT Padzilla… PADJIRA!

@Ampar
Karaoke Party HD!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/karaoke-party-hd/id366474363?mt=8
Jubei

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 11:17 am · Reply

Apple = ichiban!!!!!
chew

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 11:18 am · Reply

@Mr Fish
After watching that I think Ballmer will spend the rest of the day throwing chairs and biting faces, then he`ll go to Bill`s place, roll around on his lawn and cry.
Mr. Reeee

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 11:19 am · Reply

Speaking of Ballmer, did anyone catch the chart in the NY Times the day Apple passed MS’ market cap? It shows the rise of Apple and decline of MS?

Guess when the MS decline started?
You guessed. When Ballmer took over as CEO.
It’s hilarious (a first for a powerpoint slide?) and unfortunately Flash only.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/27/technology/20100527-apple.html?ref=business
Ubermac

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 11:39 am · Reply

Hehe… that’s otta sting… coughgooglecough
mike

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 11:40 am · Reply

Sorry, to anyone who can’t understanding Japanese, I’ll translate..
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“JESUZ H KRIST SONY, ARE YOU ASREEP AT THE WEEL? AMELICAN COMPANY MAKE YOU ROSE FACE. DIE NOW… DIE DIE DIE..”
Sarasota

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 12:01 pm · Reply

Did you notice how much thinner the box was in the Japanese store? Did they not get the charger?