We have been chatting to people in the queue outside the Apple Stores on Regent Street and Covent Garden, here is a selection of our favourite photos. Read what the people in the iPad queue had to say here.
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We spoke to people about what iPad they were planning to buy, what they were going to do with their old iPad, and even chatted to a few people who had already purchased an iPad from PC World at 12.01am in the morning of the launch.
Here are our photos.
Craig Fox, Mike Roberts and fellow Apple Store queue-buddies
Top tip: Make sure you have something warm and comfy
Craig Fox shows of the iPad he bought from PC World at 12.01am, but remains near the front of the Apple Store queue
Zohaib Ali at the front of the queue – having been there since Saturday
The queue at Covent Garden
The queue on Hanover Street, Regent Street Apple Store
Top of the queue on Hanover Street, Regent Street Apple Store
Apple Store staff get the atmosphere going
Store opens and the queue streams inside the Apple Store
iPad customers walk up the Glass Staircase
Top of the Glass Staircase
Happy clapping
The queue moves towards the front of the Apple Store on Regent Street
Finally at the front after a long night queuing outside the Apple Store
First out of the Apple Store with a New iPad
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Author: Karen Haslam, Editor
Macworld editor since 2008, Karen has worked on both sides of the Apple divide, clocking up a number of years at Apple's PR agency prior to joining Macworld almost two decades ago.
Karen's career highlights include interviewing Apple's Steve Wozniak and discussing Steve Jobs’ legacy on the BBC. Her focus is Mac, but she lives and breathes Apple.