“Apple’s international fan base greeted the iPad in nine countries Friday morning with the usual hoopla — albeit in different accents and with various degrees of self control,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
Apple Store Munich:
Elmer-Dewitt has assembled iPad launch day videos from Frankfurt, Tokyo, Paris, London, Zurich, Milan and Rome. See them here.
MacDailyNews Take: Bloodbath.
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What? No video from Canada?
where were you all this while MDN? sleeping? You got to come early and cover the launches…
In Sydney a fight broke out with an apple staff…
Sad. A bunch of happy clappy people hyping up the launch of a product. As nice as the product is, it’s just a product! Not an essential piece of life.
‘Hoopla’ never happens in Canada
cptnkirk, it is only Friday morning now in Canada. Those videos will come later.
Keep in mind that aside from these many thousands on lines everywhere, there are many thousands more that got their iPads on line and they are being delivered today!
@Sad
People are excited and happy about something. Why would you be critical of that?
@Sad,
There’s always one wet blanket lying around.
@Sad
You’re sad. Can’t you take a little joy in life? Just people having some fun dude
Imagine that being the return line for the Dell Dud, or whatever they’re going to call it.
They you go Microshaft, this is why Apple just breezed past you.
You made it your sole purpose in life to be associated with work (Office) and to make people hate work needlessly (Vista) while Apple associated itself with leisure (iPods/iTunes et al) and when faced with work made it as painless as possible (OS X).
Who wants a Baldmer netbook now?
Hey, Microsoft now has TWO great stores open to show how wonderful Microsoft software is…..
er…..
Wait,,,,,,,, Apple just opened up…. 5 NEW stores…
er update… make that 6,,, no… seven…
wait…… just wait a second…..
OK now its 9 NEW stores around the world and I am tired of counting…..
Just remember… no matter how many stores Apple opens up or how many iPad, iPods, etc they sell Microsoft still has the Zune… Remember that.
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Just a thought, (said grinning to one self….LOL)
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Feeling sufficiently superior to the rest of us mere mortals now, are you, Sad? How exhaustingly condescending you are, sir or madam. And how truly empty your life must be if you are incapable of enjoying a moment like this with the new iPad. Been to any football games lately? Cheer exuberantly and madly for your favorite, did you?
No? Wow. One might say that you are to be pitied, not censured, Sad. But for me . . . (and as Bill The Cat would say) . . . Phhhttttttt! (Sorry if I got any on ya’.)
Hi Sad. Not so, this will change so many things from the way young students learn from text and media vs old books with pictures to you filling out forms on the iPad not on paper that is handed to someone to type into their office data base. Even the clip board at the end of your hospital bed will be gone soon.
“Not an essential piece of life.” How many people still go into town by horse? This changes so many things. You will tell the grand kids that you were there in 2010!
Seriously, can you really say this is happening because Apple has great marketing? Do people line up around the block for a device running Android? Palm? Windows? Could anyone have imagined this ten years ago?
A whole new “global” generation of people who regularly line up to get into an Apple store.
I may not have had any money to buy AAPL years ago, but I’m now making my living developing for the iPad — and I love my job! Thanks Apple!
Well it’s not surprising, it’s a great product. I love mine. I was laying in bed last night reading on it.
The only problem I find with it is that I end up spending way more time than I mean to reading. Between the web, my ebooks and the news apps, I can blow through a couple of hours in what seems like the blink of an eye.
Now if those folks in the other countries are looking for free iPad apps, I hope they will check out these articles:
The 25 Best Free iPad Apps
http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/04/03/the-25-best-free-ipad-apps/
These might also interest readers:
The 25 Best Free iPad Games
http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/04/07/the-25-best-free-ipad-games/
The Best eBook App for iPad: iBooks or Amazon Kindle?
http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/04/05/the-best-ebook-app-for-ipad-ibooks-or-amazon-kindle/
Got it today…
I wonder what happened to ZuneTang? Right about now is when he usually chimes in to give his two cents on how Micro$quish is the superior operating system and blah blah blah. I guess like his namesake he lost in the wild somewhere. I guess with the bad news of Micro$quish being surpassed by Apple in value he probably licking his wounds.
New York, London, Paris, Munich,
Everybody’s goin’ all iPad frantic.
This is all great and stuff but Steve, please PLEASE make sure that we here in Scandinavia won’t have to wait for the iPad for a whole friggin year like we did with the iPhone. It was really getting on my nerves …
Thank you
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“In Sydney a fight broke out with an apple staff…”
Is that a stick they use to control the unruly Poms?
Gotta love “Frau prison marm” at the 2:15 mark.
@ChrissyOne
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Pad, Pad, Pad usage!
Holy Makrel…..that was a quite a crowd; and the excitment…whooot whooot.
Apple makes folks joyful in any language….
MDN spot on….bloodbath!!!!
Someone post more new store vids…..
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What is it like to exist in a world of such blinkered black-and-white literalism?
Canadians,
Every Mac dealer in Western Canada, at least, has iPads in stock. Furure Shop had the rights to advertise that but no one else did. If you didn’t line up and you still want one, head to your nearest Apple reseller.
Where is Sweden? 🙁
That’s Future Shop to everyone else.
The line up at the new Southgate Edmonton Store was about 500 people, at the 8 am opening, and the line hasn’t decreased! More and more just keep joining. The Genius Bar was loaded with iPads. Lot’s of local news coverage (3 TV stations, and a couple radio) so local news should be interesting tonight.
@Sad
“Not an essential piece of life.”
Name ONE thing, that is an essential piece of life, that you actually cheered and clapped for, when it was offered?
What!
@Switched
Excellent point.
It’s amazing how one sad bastard can set the tone of a whole blog.
got mine from pc world , they had loads in stock , despite apple telling me i’d have to wait until July 8th at least for mine
last time i bother pre ordering on line
C1,
Shoobie doobie do wop. Infiltrate it. Pop pop shoo wop. Activate it.
A flop in France.
@ Ike
Between Finland and Norway, last time I looked…
@ G4Dualie
I’m sure they clap and cheer for electricity and running water in Baghdad all the time.
“That’s Future Shop to everyone else.”
Not if you drive a Volkswagen.
ike – Where is Sweden? 🙁
In Northern Europe, between Norway and Finland?
we are the future
As a very minor Apple shareholder, I am very disappointed over the iPad flop. I feel the need to sue Apple, SJ, and every manufacturer of iPad components!
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Please continue with your delusions, Ballmer and company. The best consumer electronics leverage Apple operating systems – Mac OS X and its little cousin, the iPhone OS.
No free Winnie the Pooh Book for iBooks in Canada, WTF Canada is the home of Winnie the Pooh and we get stiffed (I am from Winnipeg the place the gave Winnie his name).
Even worse I can’t buy the book in Canada. My kids were looking forward to it,now what do I tell them.
I think Germany is shown because it is the largest country in Europe and Germans have awesome buying power globally.
The iPad 3G is sold out in Spain and there are very few wi-fi units remaining.
!! As they open the doors in the München video, watch the kid in the gray hoody, glasses and black pack holding his camera aloft.
It’s HIM. I swear. German Boy:
My heart is full. My eyes are tearing up. The soul of another Microsoft user saved.
Berlin:
Bristol, England. Start watching at 2:40.
Unique: Apple staff jogging, running, jumping around the mall.
Glasgow, Scotland. Video quality: Blame BlackBerry.
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Bloody Vikings!
Glasgow:
Bloody Vikings!
Bristol @ 2:40 :
Kill me. I’ve never been dead before.
Just kidding. Been dead several times.
Vancouver, Canada. Very subdued:
Toronto, Canada. LOUDEST countdown: