"Es ist das neue iPad"

The launch of the new iPad in Munich (at the Apple store by Marienplatz) was obviously an event: people queueing up from the night before outside the store, bouncers at the door, ribbons to manage the queues and the store lit up brightly. It was well organised; the queuers had brought along camping chairs, there was security marshals and even water seemed to have been provided. Every now and then, a passerby would stop and ask, what's the fuss. A guard would state, that it is the new iPad, the passerby, young or old, would nod their head (as if it made complete sense) and perhaps even consider joining the queue. Even this afternoon, almost 6 hours after the launch, the queue and the queries remained the same.

No, I did not get the new iPad, not yet.