Gallery: iPad Goes on Sale; Launch Barely Bruised by Anti-Apple Protest
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First in the pre-order line, Jim Bascuec was the first to receive the new iPad.
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At 8:30 a.m., the 5th Avenue Apple store opens and Greg Packer, first in line, who had been camped out since Monday afternoon, watches with frustration as the select pre-order line is let in to the store first.
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The line for the new iPad continued around the neighboring FAO Schwarz.
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Luis Zacarius, an army recruiter in the Bronx, takes photos with people in line for the new iPad.
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A group of teenagers wait for the iPad outside of the 5th Avenue Apple store.
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The line for the new iPad snakes around the plaza in front of the 5th Avenue Apple store.
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The first customers are greeted by the Apple team as they descend the stairs of the 5th Avenue store.
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Shelby Knox, with Change.org, and Amanda Bell, a law student studying labor law at Columbia University, hold up a banner of a petition to protest the working conditions at the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, where the iPad was made.
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Amanda Foote, a student at Borough of Manhattan City College, with her friend Fernando Munera, attempts to fundraise for a trip to Peru to find her biological parents by selling her space in line for the new iPad. So far she had received two offers, one for $1,000 and one for $2,000, both of which fell through.
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The line outside of the 5th Avenue Apple Store for the release of the new iPad snakes around the plaza.
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Greg Packer was first in line for the new iPad at the 5th Avenue Apple store. He had been in line since noon on Monday, sleeping in a chair the entire week. Although he was most excited about the HD feature on the new iPad, when asked how he felt moments before the opening he replied, "I'm tired."
