Apple revolutionary iPad sells out in minutes in Hong Kong debut

invisibleSHIELD case for iPad“The iPad has landed in Hong Kong and Appleheads lined up from early morning at City Plaza Taikoo Shing’s Fortress store to ensure their iPad entrance tickets. There are currently 21 outlets in Hong Kong selling iPads at HK$3,000 to HK$6,000,” Hiufu Wong reports for CNNGo. “With the iPad in short supply lines at iPad retailers around Hong Kong were expected to show similar scenes to what we saw at City Plaza.”

“According to one of the City Plaza Shopping Centre representatives on hand, all 180 tickets for the iPad were given out within 30 minutes after the sales began at 10 a.m. with a few fans arriving as early as 6:30 a.m. to secure one of the tickets,” Wong reports.

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]

22 Comments

  1. Hi analysts, do you thing Apple will sell very many of those iPads in China? How about India? How about …

    The question is “How many of those iPads can Apple get made! That is how many Apple will sell!

  2. How in the he’ll is this happening!!!!!

    IT HAS NO STYLUS OR KEYBOARD???

    Bill Gates said this can not happen without these two essential items. It must all be LIES! All lies!!!

    Yet, another dose of reality for Microsoft……

    Another day…. Another dumb ass mistake we make for our customers.

  3. No tickee, no iPad. (With apologies to Hop Sing.)

    Seriously I read where in New Zealand the iPad was just received pretty sedately. How can this be in the land of Peter Jackson?

  4. 6:30 am on the day of???

    At least we Americans start lining up 1-2 weeks beforehand. Lazy Chinese.

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  5. Re the Microsoft stylus thing:
    From the start Microsoft was led by an engineer, Gates. Apple was led by a creative artist (reference Steve Jobs commencement speech of a few years ago in which he talks of crashing calligraphy classes after dropping out of school).
    For the most part engineers do not have creative class or vision. Our guy does!

  6. “Ha. The Asian market will never warm up to Apple products, and certainly not the iPad. These are high-priced devices that are locked in to Apple’s eco-sys… oh. … What?! … But, … Oh, Geez …”

  7. @ ajdowntown
    “How do you say ‘bloodbath’ in the official language of Hong Kong?” Well, one way is “bloodbath”, since English is one of the 3 official languages of Hong Kong. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”grin” style=”border:0;” /> The other two being Cantonese, and now Mandarin, since it now belongs to China.

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