Originally Posted By: andym
Originally Posted By: hybrid8
I saw photos of a couple of lines on opening day (from the UK) and they were massive, at least a hundred people long.


I've seen pictures of the queues in London that look like that. But not in Manchester, there was nobody queuing to buy there, but about 20 or so people having a look at them.

My first hands on experience with a iPad was actually a couple of weeks ago when I was in Preston, the local CEX had one in the window for sale so I asked to have a look at it.


Yeah, I'd imagine that the regent street store will have had stupidly long queues, but then again I personally wouldn't go anywhere near that store on release day of a limited stock product.

As an aside, one of the demo apps on the iPad was Starwalk, liked the app so much that we bought it, it's super cool on the iPad and just as cool (but smaller) on the 3GS, uses the accelerometer, gps and compass to make identifying the night sky a very cool experience. Slightly less cool on the 3G because of the lack of a compass.