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Availability to touch b4 5pm
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It will not. At a few minutes before 5:00 local time, the employees of the Apple store will take the black drapes off the store windows and then everyone will be able to get their first look at the new iPad2. After that, people will be allowed to enter the store (I think they only let in about 20-25 at a time, depending upon the local fire regulations and the store's capacity), and then that is when you'll finally be able to pick up a new iPad2, touch it, play with it....and buy one!
Sorry but I think they will be closing the store for prob an hour while they "setup". Nice try, but this isn't their first rodeo. Did you honestly think that would work?
You're free to buy that mbp or anything else you want before the store briefly closes but at the 5pm reopening the people waiting to buy the iPad 2 will be able to make their purchase.
This reply made me laugh. I love the logic. Makes sense to me. LOL
I know and calling Verizon gave me the answer to the activation charges. Crazy times eh?
I've never been to a release at apple before as I've always opted to order online, but seeing how I'm off that day I figured it was worth a shot. thanks
Thanks man. So after 5pm the store will be open ONLY to ipad 2 customers?
Think of it this way.. it's open to whoever is waiting in line. They'll be expecting you to buy an iPad 2 but last time this happened I got an iPad 3G and an Airport Extreme.
They won't let anyone cut in line. You would have to go to the rear of the line, regardless of the reason you're there. The store will be open all day until around 4:00 or so, and that would be the time to go and purchase your MBP or anything else you need. When the store reopens at 5:00 it will be expected that customers who have been waiting in line are there to purchase an iPad and accessories, not something else altogether.
I remember a couple of years ago -- must've been an iPhone launch -- we were all lined up and waiting and this couple came along, stopped at the Apple store, looked confused at the black curtains and the closed doors, gazed blankly at the line for a moment, and then I heard one of them say to the security guard outside the doors, "we're just here to buy a MacBook Pro today, can't we go in?" They got the headshake. Oh. What were all those people standing around in line for? An iPhone. This is an iPhone Launch. Oh. Well, couldn't they go in ahead of all those people waiting in line for the iPhone? Another headshake and the explanation that they'd need to go to the end of the line (which by this point was rather long). They stared at the line, then looked at each other, shrugged and walked away.....
In the past I think I have also seen them let in people with Genius Bar appointments, but that was several years ago for the Tiger launch I think.