iPad Release Time

My local store has a workshop planned for 5pm - 6pm on release day.
(Doncaster, VIC Australia)

 

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I'm in New York this week and was hoping that the 5th Avenue store would start selling at midnight, as they are open 24/7.

 

I'm currently working about 30 seconds from the Apple store on the corner of 9th & West 14th Street-if I stick my head out of the office window I can see it from here!

Having said that, I'll almost certainly have finished here by Friday and I'll be staying in Midtown Manhatten, so I guess my closest stores are the one you mentioned, 5th Ave and Grand Central.

 

my bestbuy says 10am for bestbuy

 

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/12...pening-hints-at-800-am-ipad-launch-on-friday/

"The store’s doors will open at 8 a.m. Friday, the same day that Apple’s third-generation iPad will go on sale. An Apple spokeswoman would not say whether all its stores will open at that time on Friday, but an early opening is typical when the company starts selling a new iPad or iPhone model."

Not really confirmation but close to it.

 

They will go on sale as early as the store opens as the Apple web site would clearly spell out 5pm (as they could be sued for inciting a riot).

This is good business sense (not causing a riot)

 

Likely to be 8am as usual.

The image posted in the first reply shows a getting started workshop at 8am. That not a hint?

 

It's confirmed right here on the official Apple website: