YouTuber “onlygeek” shot video of the queue for iPad 2 waiting outside Apple Store Regent Street in London yesterday:
The huge line outside Regent Street Apple Store in London for the iPad 2. We took over 3 mins to walk through all the 4 lines, this is crazy!
“While competitors are still struggling to catch up with our first iPad, we’ve changed the game again with iPad 2,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in a press release earlier this week. “We’re experiencing amazing demand for iPad 2 in the US, and customers around the world have told us they can’t wait to get their hands on it. We appreciate everyone’s patience and we are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone.”
iPad 2 with Wi-Fi became available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK on March 25th.
iPad 2 will next be available in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and additional countries in April.
Huge iPad 2 queue outside Apple Store Regent Street in London:
[Attribution: Cult of Mac. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jax44” for the heads up.]
WOW!!! Unbelievable!! This is the line for the new PlayBook????!!! Oh wait…I see…
I’m sure the line-ups for the Zune were bigger than that 😉
Hey, Costco is taking pre-orders on the Xoom.
All four of them.
I coulda sworn I saw Katherine Noyes near the end of that line.
Is this the line for the new Dell Latitude? LOL!
Monstrously huge, but China queue will beat it by a wide margin. Anyone doubts that iPad 2 sales will blow Kinect sales out of the water and reclaim the Guinness World Records? Adequate supply is the only thing that could prevent that from happening.
How much is the Kinect and how much is the average iPad 2?
That difference should matter, shouldn’t it?
The key for Kinect record sales was that they launched it into the Xmas shopping season.
There was a long queue there this morning too, stretching a fair bit outside the front of the store. Inside it breaks into several queues extending right to the back of the store where the tills are, on both floors!
That was at 9:45 this morning
Holy sh*t! As an Apple shareholder, I’m impressed and giddy with joy. Don’t any of these people know that the iPad doesn’t support Flash? Do any of them even care? For all the claims that the iPad 2 is a totally useless device, I’m wondering how sales would be if it was a useful device.
There were some analysts that were saying that Apple was running scared from all the Android tablet vendors. I’d say that Apple should be rather confident that they are in no danger of losing much market share whatsoever.
The Kinect Guinness record is toast and so will low-end Windows 7 licenses. Apple absolutely must sell at least 40 million iPad 2s this year and shut up the critics who said the iPad is a temporary fad, once and for all.
I wonder if those Foxconn employees assembling iPad 2s will ever be able to leave their workstations.
I did not and don’t want to install flash in my MacBook Air, but I can not watch videos in this (and some other) sites at least I install the flash player.
The weird hing is that I can with my iPhone and iPad. Why videos in this “Mac Site” are linked to flash videos and not HTML5 like in the iOS version? How can I watch the videos from my Mac with out installing flash?
@Troy
YouTube videos play just fine on iOS devices. Where have you been?
CoolFactor, thank you for trying to help, but next time read the all comment before replying.
I want to see youtube videos embed in site like this one with out having to install flash… JUST LIKE IN iOS DEVICES…
Where have you been?
Get the html5 Safari extension. I translates all flash video to html5 flash-less output. Here is one example :
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/37796/altervideo-safari-extension
ClickToFlash
Marc Hoyois
ClickToFlash prevents the Flash plug-in from running. It replaces any Flash element on a webpage with a placeholder; simply click the placeholder to load the Flash content. ClickToFlash also lets you replace Flash videos from select websites (such as YouTube) with H.264 video. Other optional features include advanced whitelisting.
https://extensions.apple.com/
AlterVideo Safari Extension
AlterVideo forces Adobe Flash and other embeded videos to use the HTML5 Video player when possible.
It does so by detecting video on the page in a generic manner without support for specific websites.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/37796/altervideo-safari-extension
As a shareholder this gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
The irony is that there used to be a Nokia shop across the street from the Apple store. They had to close down because it was unprofitable! http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/nokia-shuttering-london-flagship-store/
I wonder how hard the Android-based vendors are working to build enough fake iPads for their customers?
Haha And Samdung leading the way with fake testimonials as a bonus for stupidity!
What did Steve Jibs say about the iPad 2? “First dual core tablet to ship in volume.” critics took issue with that statement, but truth is truth.
*Steve Jobs. Where were you in that one autocorrect?
Delighted for the Brits… but it would be nice to receive my 64GB 3G iPad 2 I’ve been waiting for (right here in California) for almost two weeks.
Staggering. Who says there is no Mac Culture outside the US? I find it interesting that there were no folks over 35 in that line. None! Yet, virtually ALL of my friends, who are late 50s early 60s, are MacHeads. I have a few friends who are computer geeks and would rather dick with their stuff than use it.
I would dearly love to know how many/few folks were sent away wanting.
The only comparable size queue I can think of is Xbox red ring of death owners hoping to get refunds from best buy.
I think Apple could sell a lot more iPads if they had better inventory. You can’t simply walk anywhere and buy one.
Just wait until Consumers Reports gets ahold of this info. They will think the people waiting in line are trying to return the iPads 2 due to no speed increase over the iPad 1. Shhh
It may have been quicker to have come to Helsingborg, Sweden, where I joined the queue 5 minutes before opening, behind 50 people, and walked out with an iPad 2 45 minutes later. But I don’t want to brag.