Retailers run out of iPad 2 within hours
Many retailers and Apple stores ran out of the computer company’s second-generation iPad tablet within hours of its first availability, suggesting that initial sales could well surpass those of the first version.
Queues at Apple stores in New York, San Francisco and elsewhere wrapped around city blocks, with some people waiting for hours only to find that iPad 2 supplies were gone or limited to the more expensive models with wireless service from carriers AT&T or Verizon.
“I’m getting one mainly because it is lighter and because it is faster,” said Lars Trieloff, 30, a software product manager from Berlin who queued at a San Francisco Apple store. Like many first-day buyers, Mr Trieloff said he already owned last year’s model.
