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24/7 Apple Store Closes For Coming of iPad
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Jen Carlson
Published Apr 2, 2010
Modified Apr 2, 2010
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The reviews are in and the iPad is coming! Tomorrow the gadget will officially hit the shelves at Apple stores... and the 24/7 one on 5th Avenue will actually close at midnight tonight to iPrep for its arrival. They'll be open for business again at 9 a.m. tomorrow... and there's already a (one-man) line. Highway maintenance worker Greg Packer, who was also first in line for the iPhone, has been camped out in front of the store for days (even though there was a pre-order option)! This video was taken Wednesday:
Will you join him? Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow has a few reasons not to. But David Letterman and Stephen Colbert aren't hearing it!
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