“Staples customers hunting for a new iPad Air or Mini can now find one on actual store shelves,” Lance Whitney reports for CNET.
“Calling your local Staples outlet now greets you with a recorded message telling you that you can buy a new iPad either online or in stores,” Whitney reports. “Previously, the devices were available through Staples just online.”
“Staples also sells the iPod and a wide range of Apple accessories, including cases, covers, and cables,” Whitney reports. “But the iPhone is still persona non grata. A Staples store rep told me that the company first wants to see how the iPad fares among retail buyers.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Now, if they could only get some MacBooks in there to put next to their line up of plastic Windows PC craptops, we can stop poking our heads into Staples and sarcastically asking them it they have any Parallel cables.
Fittingly, though, Staples still has to wait and see how this iPad whirligig does before they even start thinking about carrying that newfangled iPhone gizmo.
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