Queues started down Regent Street outside the Apple store from yesterday afternoon for today's launch.....
FT:
....The lengthy queue outside - elongated perhaps by Apple’s policy of allowing buyers in only one at a time - attracted attention from passers by. Not everyone was as excited as those who emerged grinning from the store, one besuited chap calling the people lined up “saddos” while another lady was baffled when she found out what all the fuss was about: “I thought it was something important,” she gasped.
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Many of the people I spoke to in the line seemed unaware that branches of Currys and PC World were also selling the iPad just a few minutes’ walk away, with no queue. Their face crumpled in anguish as they balanced leaving a queue to which they had already dedicated up to two hours of their morning....
And by tomorrow you'll be able to walk into the Apple store and get one too no doubt.....
The UK iPad Review Media Ecosystem This review is in 3 parts. Firstly, technically, we can say that the iPad is: - a tablet computer - that plays TV - it works like an iPhone except it won't make phone calls. - it's bloody expensive for what it
Tracked: May 29, 13:32