CNET reporters and photographers have been at Apple stores in New York and San Francisco today tracking the lines of people waiting to get their hands on the company's revamped tablet device. Here's a sampling of what we saw:
Alex Scumilov, shown here, is the first iPad 2 customer to emerge from the Apple store on Fifth Avenue in New York. The device went on sale in New York at 5 p.m. ET. Scumilov came to the Apple store on Thursday afternoon to buy a MacBook Pro. But he ended up staying the night and waiting in line with about 15 other people for the new iPad 2. He was fifth in line.
Two hours before the iPad 2 is set to go on sale, the line at Apple's store on Fifth Avenue starts to wrap around the block. People line up along 58th Street next to the FAO Scwhartz toy store.
By about 8 a.m. PT, there are already more than 50 people lined up at the Apple Store on Stockton Street in downtown San Francisco. The iPad goes on sale here at 5 p.m. PT.
The crowd outside the downtown San Francisco Apple store just as the clock was about to strike 5 p.m. PT. Apple is removing the black curtain--you can see the Apple employees inside and ready for iPad 2 buyers.
James Alimeda, who was first in line for an iPad 2 at the downtown San Francisco Apple store, was also one of the first to make it to the registers and actually buy one.
