“Eager technology fans braved lines at Apple stores around the world to snag the company’s latest iPad tablet,” Brett Molina reports for USA Today.
“The iPad Air launched in 42 countries including the U.S. on Friday,” Molina reports. “Videos from several store launches including Sydney, Tokyo and Amsterdam have been popping up on YouTube.”
Molina reports, “The 9.7-inch iPad Air is 20% thinner than the previous model, and weighs only one pound. It features the zippier A7 processing chip as well as the M7 coprocessor, both of which are found in Apple’s iPhone 5s.”
Read more in the full article here.
More iPad Air launch day videos at Fortune here.
But, but, but . . .
I thought JD said it wasn’t the best! How can this be? Could their fuzzy math really be THAT wrong?
JD seem to have disappeared up their own fuzzy math world.
They can’t even add up their own blob ratings.
When if ever have we seen enthusiasm over a piece of technology. You would never see this at a Microsoft Store. They had their day in the sun in 1995. These days, they have to give away concert tickets just to get some fake resemblance of excitement over one of their products. You’ve never seen people lining up at Best Buy to purchase some new Samsung device.
As I’ve been posting for the past or so, a lot of people have been sitting on their hands in regards to the iPad. I’ve been wanting one for the past six months. Thanks to the rumor mill, I New Apple was coming out with a new and much improved model. I’m glad I waited. As of today, my patience will soon be rewarded.
It will be most interesting to see how many iPad Apple will move this weekend. Anything above 2 million would o a good job shutting down the naysayers.
JD Power was correct. Those videos are people lined up outside Samsung “NotAppleButCloseEnough™” stores. They stand there in front of the store, cheer a little bit when the news cameras come by, then get a check after forwarding a paid blog and tweet. Leaving “Sent from my iPhone” in the twitter feed is optional.
L’ha ribloggato su P@ssioneMobile.
The best is the iPad – always will be.
anyone know of a place you can buy the wifi version in installments? I know t-mobile offers the cell version, but they add on at the minimum a $10 per month on demand plan.
1. Deposit your installments in a savings account until the amount equals the price of the iPad + applicable taxes.
2. Withdraw the funds from the account
3. Buy the iPad
Ya, he probably never realized that was an option. Thanks Financial Planner!
awful advice. thats gets me the iPad air months later, not upfront. good try though
I got a better idea…..ask Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa. Worked for me when I was a kid! LOL
If you go to the online Apple store, you can apply for the Barclay visa card and can use it to buy the 499 iPad, and then pay it back in 12 installments with zero interest. Of course, you will than have another Visa. I guess you could cancel the card after the 12 months.
trying to stay away from another credit card, but it is zero interest
Careful though. It’s zero interest as long as the amount is paid in full by the 12 months. And…it’s only for the first purchase with the card. After that it’s a normal Visa with a high interest rate.
Be careful still, if you charge anything else to the card, after you make your initial interest free promo purchase, all future payments are directed to pay off purchases that are not interst free first. You could find yourself still owing the full amount of the iPad at the end of the promotional interest free period!!!
Not true. If u call Barclays before your purchase they will re activate 12 mo no interest for apple purchases
Try PayPal… they have financing plans. Not sure of the details though.
You sign up for a Barclays Credit card which they partner with Apple and have 18 months no interest. Best Buy also runs this same deal. There’s really no excuse for anyone that doesn’t have money to not get one unless you cannot make the payments within 18 months. After the 18 months the interest kicks in and goes all the way back to the purchase date. These deals only apply to any amount over $699.
Apple
No lines this time. Ordered mine at 12:10 AM.
Wahoo!
Where are you from?
Last night I tried to order one shortly after 12am New York time, but the store was yet ready. It wasn’t until 3am that I could order, but by then I ordered through the Apple Store app.
In this case the Universe revolves around Cupertino, CA.
Specifically 12am Pacific Standard Time.
So I had to wait till 1am.
Folks further East in NYC, 3am.
Where are you from?
Last night I tried to order one shortly after 12am New York time, but the store wasn’t yet ready. It wasn’t until 3am that I could order, but by then I ordered through the Apple Store app, which also wasn’t ready until 3am.
West coast USA.
Apple’s site said it would go on sale at 12:00 AM PST. It I had to refresh a few time but by 12:10 I was able to order.
The first video comes across as hokey! All the blue shirts cheering while the crowd in the waiting line stood there comatose.
Stop using Microsoft’s script!
Really? Lines? Why? There are ample supplies everywhere. Something doesn’t look right.
I don’t see any lines the the samdung galaxy tablet at Costco, go figure. How about you ed?
the non stop clapping kinda remind me to the north koreans
Where did they bus in those black security guys from? I guess those brothers are the only ones who can control that angry mob of Apple faithful.
Big neggas make the best security guards
Look Microsoft, no free concert tickets required!
The T-Mobile deal on the iPad Air is looking mighty good…I think Apple will sell a gazillion of these!
I was going to do this until i realized you still had to buy a plan. the cheapest is the on demand plan for $10 per month. I’m not going to pay $120 per year for a device even if i don’t use their cell service. going to buy the wifi model
The thing is if you go on T-mobiles site and try to order the Ipad Air you have to sign up for a Demand plan which costs $10 a month. So that 200mb and free financing actually cost $10 a month.
If Apple have good supply then they will sell bucket loads of these. It could be the catalyst for a good growth of the share-price.
Sure is helping the stock price this morning .
Only 3 customers in line by 6am at my local Apple store.