“Friday is D-day for consumers looking to get their hands on Apple’s third generation iPad, and lines are expected to be long because the device is already sold out online,” Marguerite Reardon, Roger Cheng and Josh Lowensohn report for CNET.
“Doors at Apple stores and most other retailers selling the new iPad open at 8 a.m. local time in nine countries, including the U.S., and two U.S. territories,” Reardon, Cheng and Lowensohn report. “The first iPad was already sold in Australia at a Telstra store that opened at midnight local time. Other countries getting the new iPad include: Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland, France, the U.K., and the U.S., along with Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.”
Reardon, Cheng and Lowensohn report, “CNET’s crew of reporters and photographers will be at the cube on Fifth Avenue documenting the expected long lines and protesters. We’ll also have coverage from Apple’s new Grand Central store in New York , as well from our reporters in San Francisco and Palo Alto, Calif., and Paris, too.”
7:50am, NYC Fifth Ave. store: This is Maggie Reardon reporting from the Fifth Ave. store. The line of eager iPad fans is around the block. Maybe 200 to 300, waiting in the cold, damp morning. Greg Packer from Huntington, N.Y., is the first person in line. He’s been here since Monday.
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MacDailyNews Take: Good ol’ Greg. King of Launch Day Queues.
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New iPad? Why didn’t anybody tell me? Now I guess they’re all gone!
I got 2 16 GB Wifi+4G iPads in Walmart last night. There was no line, I guess not many people knew Walmart was selling the new iPad from midnight.
Mine just arrived via UPS!!!!!! Cloning it from my iPad2 right now.
It’s thicker by a sheet of paper. My Switcheasy™ case won’t fit. Good thing I ordered a different one.
It may be heavier on the spec list, but I can’t feel the difference.
Enjoy using that gadget guys!
Use it to make your life better, as Steves wanted to see.^^
Been there since Monday ??? What a fool. Could probably leave Apple after he gets his ipad and walk into a Best Buy and pick one up later today. Sounds like there’s PLENTY of stock available in most places.
Hmmm. I just picked up a black 64MB from Bestbuy in Orange CT. No waiting, just walked in the door asked if they had one, I was given a sheet of paper to bring to the counter in the computer department and walked out with it in about 5 min. No muss, no fuss!
Poor Samsung. So few friends. So much crapware.
Samsung slabs do make nice paving stones!
Samsung: Soooo screwed.
Happy St. iPADd’s Day