With Apple's official launch of the iPad in Australia, Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong just hours away, it seems that some of the company's retail stores are beginning their preparations. At Apple's Fukuoka Tenjin store in Japan, which closed for the night a little over an hour ago, employees are currently hard at work removing iPad 2 units from display in order to replace them with demo models of the new iPad.
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Apple's retail stores will be opening at 8:00 AM local time to begin selling the new iPad, but some third-party retail partners will be opening even earlier. In fact, our friends at iFixit have traveled to Australia in order to be among the first to obtain an iPad for teardown purposes and were first in line at a Telstra retail store in Melbourne that opened just a few minutes ago at midnight. The carrier is even celebrating the event with a meter square iPad cake.
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Update: iFixit now has its iPad in hand and will begin tearing it down shortly.
Top Rated Comments
We finally see an assembled one at the Apple's keynote event.
We tear it down to see internals again after the launch.
What's wrong with us?
All you have to do is press and hold until the icons wiggle, and you can rearrange the apps.
Might be a little squishy with the icing and all.
It's an iPad cake. It will be magically delicious. :D
Here we go. :D
Will Apple immediately replace all of those iPads in the plastic cases used to display product information for all machines in the Apple Stores?
And what a fun cake - I want some!