Four days before the iPad 2 goes on sale, the first line is already forming.
Apple fan Justin Wagoner has set up camp outside an Apple Store in Dallas, Texas. Here’s a snap of his tent taken by a MacCast reader.
Wagoner appears to be the first person lining up for the iPad 2, which goes on sale on Friday at 5PM. Apple isn’t taking preorders, so its first come, first served.
Wagoner also camped out to be first in line for the iPhone 4 last year. He has set up a site to document his camping trip: iJustinOfficial.com.
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac.
Leander is a longtime technology reporter and the author of six acclaimed books about Apple, including two New York Times bestsellers: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products and Inside Steve’s Brain, a biography of Steve Jobs.
He’s also written a top-selling biography of Apple CEO Tim Cook and authored Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod, which both won prestigious design awards. Most recently, he was co-author of Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition.
Leander has been reporting about Apple and technology for nearly 30 years.
Before founding Cult of Mac as an independent publication, Leander was news editor at Wired.com, where he was responsible for the day-to-day running of the Wired.com website. He headed up a team of six section editors, a dozen reporters and a large pool of freelancers. Together the team produced a daily digest of stories about the impact of science and technology, and won several awards, including several Webby Awards, 2X Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism and the 2010 MIN (Magazine Industry Newsletter) award for best blog, among others.
Before being promoted to news editor, Leander was Wired.com’s senior reporter, primarily covering Apple. During that time, Leander published a ton of scoops, including the first in-depth report about the development of the iPod. Leander attended almost every keynote speech and special product launch presented by Steve Jobs, including the historic launches of the iPhone and iPad. He also reported from almost every Macworld Expo in the late ’90s and early ‘2000s, including, sadly, the last shows in Boston, San Francisco and Tokyo. His reporting for Wired.com formed the basis of the first Cult of Mac book, and subsequently this website.
Before joining Wired, Leander was a senior reporter at the legendary MacWeek, the storied and long-running weekly that documented Apple and its community in the 1980s and ’90s.
Leander has written for Wired magazine (including the Issue 16.04 cover story about Steve Jobs’ leadership at Apple, entitled Evil/Genius), Scientific American, The Guardian, The Observer, The San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.
Leander is an expert on:
Apple and Apple history
Steve Jobs, Jony Ive, Tim Cook and Apple leadership
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Leander has a postgrad diploma in artificial intelligence from the University of Aberdeen, and a BSc (Hons) in experimental psychology from the University of Sussex.
He has a diploma in journalism from the UK’s National Council for the Training of Journalists.
Leander lives in San Francisco, California, and is married with four children. He’s an avid biker and has ridden in many long-distance bike events, including California’s legendary Death Ride.
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84 responses to “The First iPad 2 Lines Are Forming”
I love Apple products, and I REALLY want and iPad 2–don’t get me wrong. But that guy is insane/retarded. FOUR DAYS early? Seriously?
Now this guy should be the editor of “cult” of mac. He is taking it really too far
How stupid can you get !!??
i cant wait to get an ipad 2 but seriously this bloke must have nothing else in his life to do this…. rather sad!
sad, so very sad.
Loser!
I’m typing this from an iPad, so it goes without saying my feelings for iPad2, but imagine if young people like this guy devotes this kind of energy to a cause…
Sad very sad
This man needs intensive psychotherapy – he’s not #winning. I plan to get to one of the stores offering the iPad 2 no earlier than 1 hour before it’s one sale; I got the iPhone 4 in 15 minutes from Best Buy.
Sad for him.. Brilliant for Apple. Did you ever wonder why Apple made the launch time at 5:00 PM on Friday.. Duh.. So the 6:00 PM national evening news will show live video of nuts like him camping out for the new iPad 2.. You can’t “BUY” advertising this good.. Anyone studing Marketing should make Apple’s launch plans “Required Reading”
He must dont know you can go to Best Buy as well and get it LOL.
Many of them do. See Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, etc. For that matter, see Madison, Wisconsin.
How much energy did *you* devote to a cause when you were young? How much do you devote now?
I have a question about getting an iPad2. If I go in to an Apple Store, say on the 13th or 14th, will they still have the iPad2 in stock? Will I be able to avoid people like Justin?
not sad. maybe hes just having fun for the hell of it… u should try it… ull find it does wonders for your mood…
doesn’t look like a line to me. looks like one moron. thats like saying my favorite sports team won a game which puts them on a winning streak.
First!!!!
I’M NUMERO UNO.
#1
Poor guy
this is not a “line” by any definition – if I stand outside your house waiting for you to bring me some apple pie, it doesn’t mean that a “line is forming” until some others stand in line behind me
I plan to wait outside Wal-Mart where they sell them also. The people are so much more interesting.. Really someone should tell him they are sold everywhere now lol
He is paid by Apple my sources say. I just wonder why Jobs is camping at my house. :)
Thank you Dr.!
Reminds me of all the long lines for Android devices… er… oh yea, there were none.
Bwahahaha…
ummmm
Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart, and Sam’s Club…makes me wonder, does this guy have a job?
“Hey boss, I need a week off”
“What for?”
“The new iPad launches this Friday at 5pm”
“…”
He is just a bum – just showing off as it’s cool to like Apple products.
I’ve been in no line as such, but I’ve always been one of the first 10 people to get iPhone starting with 3Gmodel… every year for last three years I’ve been 1st, 3rd or 10th person…
I required no lines… just show up few hours before the show begins and simply work your way into the line…
This is totally insane… and if that guy is on unemployment – then it should be totally revoked… Get a job – do some work…
How so? Explain for rest of us – please…
Very true. This is a point, not a line. Get a second guy there though, and you have yourself a line.
Or because they won’t have to deliver the iPads until day of that way. Or least a nice chunk of them.
No one can say. It all depends on how sales go over the weekend. Plus whether they do a wait list after the opening weekend again. Because if they do the list, any they receive will go there first
who is Justin Wagoner
Actually Charlie told him to do it. And anything Charlie says is automatically winning
Buying it at $13.50 a share makes me grin even more. Over $100,000 made for a $2,000 investment.
Justin, you are a god among men. We who are about to buy salute you!
I hope he has his credit card in his camp. It will be awkward to go back to home to bring it back.
We can’t wait for this!! We’ve been anticipating this release all week!! :D http://www.zap-fix.com
So, does this dude qualify as an iPad stalker?
Pathetic…
Not at all. Your only chance is to go to the line. Right now!
lol what a loser. Read his site, he writes from himself in the third person saying he is a ‘rising celebrity’. Next launch someone is going to line up one day earlier than he did and be even cooler. Someone should start lining up now for iPad 4! haha
I went to school with this guy. He thinks Dallas is the capitol of the world (as TX is the world), and in eigth grade crapped himself in front of a group of girls. In ninth grade two visiting Norweigan and Australian girls decided to go around the school saying his fly was undone. It was awesome.
He is hot. I want to have sex with him. Go to his site. He is so awesomely sexy. I masturbate every night thinking about him. If I leave for Dallas now maybe I can share his tent in peace before the crowds get there. Oh God, I need to come again, so wet.
So…how many of you rather buy your ipad 2 rather than help the japanese after they got slammed by that tsunami?