If you’re going down to the Apple Store to buy an iPad on Saturday morning, here’s what to expect:
- At 7AM, all Apple’s ~14,000 retail staff will be in an all-hands meeting. They will be trained on all features of the iPad and each staffer will get face time with the device.
- The stores will set up two waiting lines: one for reserved iPad buyers, the other for walk-ins.
- There will be a strict two-iPads-per-person limit.
- All store staff will work until 10 a.m. to deal with the first rush of buyers.
- There is expected to be another rush 3 p.m., when left-over reserved iPads (if any) will be turned over to walk-in customers.
- Apple has likely shipped enough iPads to fulfill all the reserve orders at each store. It has also likely shipped ~100 iPads for walk-ins. Larger flagship stores will likely have larger supplies.
- Best Buy stores will have just 15 iPads each: five of each memory configuration.
