While expected pitch dates for the iPad mini are being pushed back , one prosperous customer in France has received their iPad mini a Clarence Shepard Day Jr. early on . Those Apple sports fan heroic to get their hand on a newfangled iPad tomorrow may be wise to connect a queue on Friday morning as the anticipated Apple mania around this launch is anticipate to be dampen and they are probable to line up that waiting line are far short than previous Apple launches .
A post on FrenchwebsiteiGen.fr shows the unboxing of a new iPad mini fork over to a reader ahead of tomorrow ’s launch . The proofreader claims he ordered the iPad miniskirt though French reseller Darty .
Track my iPad order
Less favourable Apple customers who have travel to the Apple web site to track their fiat are get hold that the have a bun in the oven obstetrical delivery dates have slipped . In two UK - based cases we are aware of , the iPad miniskirt ( without cellular ) was ordered on 26 October , with an expected rescue date of 2 November , but now those shopper are finding that the modeling will not attain them until around 16 November .
The LTE model of the iPad mini was always anticipated to experience delays . When the quaternary genesis iPad was announced , Apple said it would transport two workweek after with the miniskirt , which is to launch on 2 November . That suggested the 4 G ready interpretation would be quick to ship on 16 November . Now Apple is hint a shipment date of 23 November for those who preordered LTE iPad minis on day one . 9to5Macsuggeststhat shipping of that model could be delayed even further to December .
Join a queue for the iPad?
If the dispatch of your iPad miniskirt has been detain you may still be in with a fortune of getting your hands on one on Friday . As yet there are no fan queuing outside the Apple Stores in the UK , although judge from this photograph take outside the Covent Garden store this morning , Apple intelligibly anticipates that there will be a queue of people skip to purchase a new iPad miniskirt tomorrow break of day .
According to the current poll on our situation which asks : ” Will you be buying a newfangled iPad ” around five Macworld readers specify to queue up to corrupt an iPad mini and a further five will be line up to bribe an iPad 4 .
So far the poll shows that the majority of respondents have no intent of buying a new iPad , with 23.2 % saying “ no , I only just bought an iPad 3 ” .
The results hint that 38.8 % of readers will be purchasing a new iPad ( mini or 4th generation ) , and 61 % will not . The iPad mini will be purchased by 23.7 % , while the iPad 4 will soon be in the mitt of 14 % . Of the respondants , 7 % have said they are “ glad with my non - Apple pad of paper ” .
In the week that Apple is to set up the iPad miniskirt and iPad 4 a two - minute telecasting of the iPhone 5 launching solar day has been published on YouTube . Since being published on 24 October the picture has received 35,523 views . The big question is , will as many people queue up on Friday to bribe an iPad mini or iPad 4 , or is this going to be a lacklustre launch .
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