Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and Sam's Club to Carry iPad 2 at Launch

I don't understand why AT&T and Verizon aren't offering subsideized prices for iPad 2, like $400 for 16gb 3G with contract

I wonder if there is enough for everyone that would like to buy one.

Apple should be embarrassed that they have a partnership with wal*mart. Goes to prove money talks...and white trash buys ipads. I wonder if steve jobs would pull apple from walmart if someone buying an ipad was on peopleofwalmart.com

I really don't understand all the hate for walmart, it's the same as any super market

What this news tells me is that a huge number of iPad2's have already been built. With the release date in only a week, and a zillion US outlets supposedly stocking them on day one, the number of comletely assembled iPads must be in the millions. That is staggering, that not a single one got photographed or accuratedly described in advance of yesterday's announcement. Sure the rumor sites had most of the details described, but mixed in with plenty of other rumors that turned out to not be true. The white iPad's got almost no pre-announcement talk. The new protective covers and magnets were similarly not talked about.

Amazing that it can be kept under wraps. There must be a dozen 747's full of these things, somewhere. Can anyone figure out how many cubic feet of iPads are sitting somewhere?

I long for the old days when it is all a secret, and JObs can say "oh.... look at this iPod I have in my pocket" and we all fall over dead. That said, I read the rumor sites like an addict.

waiting for Amazon availability so i don't have to pay tax.

waiting for Amazon availability so i don't have to pay tax.

I'm hoping for Amazon as well, because I have a bunch of credit there.

waiting for Amazon availability so i don't have to pay tax.

is that true? does that happen and how long does it take?

To many choices.. but my boss has close relations with the Apple Store manager.. so I can get an iPad right at 5!

I wouldn't be surprised if not all locations will have the iPad2 or they will only have a certain amount of stock.

Also waiting to see if Amazon will carry or when. I have some gift cards for there, of course I have to wait anyway, as I have to pay off my new iMac first.