An early customer emerges from the Apple store with the new iPad on April 3, 2010 in New York City. Hundreds lined up in front of the technology company's flagship Fifth Avenue store to be among the first in the world to acquire the touchscreen tablet device, which is like a cross between a laptop and smartphone. Picture: Spencer Platt / Getty Images / AFP
Apple iPad US launch
FANS gets their hands on Apple's much-anticipated new gadget, the iPad, as it goes on sale in the US.
The line for the iPad stretches out into West Farms Mall in Farmington, Connecticut, stretch on April 3, 2010. Picture: AFP / Timothy A. Clary
Greg Packer, of Huntington NY, right, holds his place as first in line outside the Fifth Avenue store since Tuesday at 7am for the release of Apple's iPad on April 2, 2010. Picture: David Goldman/Getty Images/AFP
Employees clap as the first customers for the iPad enter the Apple Store at West Farms Mall in Farmington, Connecticut, on April 3, 2010. Picture: AFP / Timothy A. Clary
An early customer emerges from the Apple store on Fifth Avenue with Apple's new iPad on April 3, 2010 in New York City. Picture: Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP
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