Ipad lines at Irvine Spectrum not (too) long
April 3rd, 2010, 8:05 am · 2 Comments · posted by Ian Hamilton
Blogging from my iPhone, I’m here at the Irvine Spectrum to buy my pre-ordered iPad.
There are two lines stretching to either side of the Apple Store, one for reserved devices and another for purchases. At 8 a.m., one hour before iPad goes on sale, the reserved line was about 40 strong and the other line has about 30 people in it.
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The first person in line, Russ Taylor, got in line at 3 p.m. on Friday. He has a vested interest in grabbing his two pre-ordered 64GB wifi iPads – he owns the store directly across from the Apple Store. It’s called Fusion of Ideas and they make protective films and do custom etchings for electronic devices.
The first people in the non pre-ordered line – brothers Edgar and Benny Vences – got here at 11 p.m. last night and slept on a nearby bench. They snacked on cookies and sour patch kids and a friend made a 3 a.m. run to Jack In The Box for them.
“It was really cold,” said Benny Vences. They decided to get in line on a whim and only had a couple of blankets to keep warm.
How many iPads does this Apple Store have?
“We have plenty,” said a passing Apple Store employee who offered coffee to the chilly people waiting in line.
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Wow..
We certainly aren’t in a deep recession if people have that much money to burn on an over-hyped product.
@Brown Bruin: I hear yah, but you’re talkin’ about keeping up with the Jones’ whereas iPad stuff is about not being mowed down by technology. Failure to use (or even know about) some iPhone/Pod/Pad apps can make you an inferior human resource, entrepreneur or student. It’s one thing to use brooms and mops instead of iRobots, but it’s another to show up at work and not be able to juggle 500 things like everyone else because they’re using apps you haven’t even dreamed of. So go ahead and starve for a few weeks (if you must) to grab a life-changing product from a California company full of geniuses. Just make sure to keep up with the apps and don’t be suckered into giving up your hard-earned cash to the cheap knock-offs from some Taiwanese company full of copy cats relying on Google and Microsoft code they don’t really understand to try and somehow compete with Apple using apps written by hacks.
(ps: California-based Palm Pre+ and Palm Pixi+ on Verizon are a steal too –someone reported they’re going for $30-$50 w/2yr contract and now include a free data plan which can be used to get the iPad on the Internet.)