{"id":381840,"date":"2010-03-02T20:28:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T01:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/?p=41765"},"modified":"2010-03-02T20:28:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T01:28:40","slug":"ipad-to-hit-stores-march-10-but-only-for-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/381840","title":{"rendered":"iPad to Hit Stores March 10, But Only for Employees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Apple iPad\" src=\"http:\/\/juicebox.theappleblog.com\/e\/9192fc5a6d1007a8.jpg\/d\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt\">Sources from within Apple are claiming that <a href=\"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/2010\/01\/27\/apple-introduces-the-ipad\/\">the iPad<\/a> will be in stores starting March 10, if a recent Examiner post is to be believed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-11295-LA-Gadgets-Examiner~y2010m3d2-iPad-Apple-store-employees-will-experience-device-on-March-10\">Examiner&#8217;s report<\/a> claims that the tablet devices will be hitting Apple retail stores early in order to give employees <em>and employees only<\/em>, plenty of time to get up-to-speed with using the new tablet device, ahead of its official launch.<\/p>\n<p>The iPad is expected to arrive before the month is out, with many blogs increasingly hinting at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2010\/03\/analyst-ipad\/\">a March 26 launch date<\/a>. Examiner sources, which allegedly include an anonymous &#8220;Apple Store manager in Southern California,&#8221; also claimed that the iPad&#8217;s advertisement campaign will kick off around the 15th of this month. The advertisement campaign is said to be focusing heavily on the <a href=\"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/2010\/01\/27\/ibooks-app-ibook-store\/\">iBookstore<\/a> and e-book capabilities of the upcoming device, no doubt with an intent to take some steam out of the Kindle&#8217;s successes. <span id=\"more-41765\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Examiner report also hinted that individuals who set up camp ahead of the launch, in order to become one of the first to get their hands on an iPad, will be rewarded. Just what this Apple related reward may be is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite all the detailed dates, rumors of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macnewsworld.com\/story\/Production-Problems-Could-Cut-Both-Ways-for-iPad-Devs-69456.html\">possible production problems could negate the planned launch<\/a>. Let&#8217;s just hope it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/gigapple.wordpress.com\/41765\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/gigapple.wordpress.com\/41765\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/gigapple.wordpress.com\/41765\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/gigapple.wordpress.com\/41765\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/gigapple.wordpress.com\/41765\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/gigapple.wordpress.com\/41765\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/gigapple.wordpress.com\/41765\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/gigapple.wordpress.com\/41765\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/gigapple.wordpress.com\/41765\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/gigapple.wordpress.com\/41765\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=theappleblog.com&#038;blog=5550580&#038;post=41765&#038;subd=gigapple&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/TheAppleBlog?a=0F8nsJR4rPU:jhoXd6rfuGc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/TheAppleBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/TheAppleBlog?a=0F8nsJR4rPU:jhoXd6rfuGc:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/TheAppleBlog?i=0F8nsJR4rPU:jhoXd6rfuGc:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/TheAppleBlog?a=0F8nsJR4rPU:jhoXd6rfuGc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/TheAppleBlog?i=0F8nsJR4rPU:jhoXd6rfuGc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/TheAppleBlog?a=0F8nsJR4rPU:jhoXd6rfuGc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/TheAppleBlog?i=0F8nsJR4rPU:jhoXd6rfuGc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/TheAppleBlog?a=0F8nsJR4rPU:jhoXd6rfuGc:guobEISWfyQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/TheAppleBlog?i=0F8nsJR4rPU:jhoXd6rfuGc:guobEISWfyQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheAppleBlog\/~4\/0F8nsJR4rPU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources from within Apple are claiming that the iPad will be in stores starting March 10, if a recent Examiner post is to be believed. Examiner&#8217;s report claims that the tablet devices will be hitting Apple retail stores early in order to give employees and employees only, plenty of time to get up-to-speed with using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}