26 March,2011 06:30 AM IST | | Agencies
Hundreds of customers queued outside Apple stores in Asia and Europe to buy an iPad 2 tablet computer amid fears that shortages in the United States would be repeated abroad. Yesterday, the rollout was extended to 25 countries including most of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Mexico.
Frenzy: Fans of the new iPad 2 queue outside Apple's Sydney store
with hundreds of others in a line that stretched several city blocks
awaiting the first sales of the new device. Pic/AFP
Canadian backpacker Alex Lee was the first to claim his iPad 2 at the Apple store in Sydney where he had been in line for two nights. "If it wasn't for the iPad, I wouldn't be in Australia right now," said Lee, who had already bought an iPad 2 in the United States. In London, financial adviser Jewels Lewis was at the head of the queue at Apple's Regent Street store.
