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Fedex planes carried many thousands of 4 pound packages on the night of April 29th, 2010, but some of these were marked for overnight delivery and contained 3G iPads. This was an unanticipated move by Apple: we all knew that the iPads were promised to “ship late April”, as our Apple.com order page had told us, but we didn’t expect that Apple would gratuitously upgrade everyone’s shipping to Priority Overnight. That is just what they did, however.
The news broke Thursday, the day before scheduled delivery. Thousands upon thousands of geeks with open orders called in sick on Friday morning and began writing scripts to repetitively fetch their Fedex tracking page. Spouses were awakened with excited cries of “It’s left Newark — wake up, wake up, it has left Newark!” and later with the hushed and reverential “It’s out for delivery. Listen to me: it’s OUT FOR DELIVERY. Right now. Really.”
I was one of those waiting for my iPad.
A few unfortunate souls who chose to live in far rural areas clutched their heads in psychic pain: their iPads would not reach their doors until Saturday and for some wretched few, not until Monday. These creatures bemoaned the choices and circumstances that had brought them to abide…
