Video: Walking the longest iPad 2 line

March 12, 2011, 11:57 AM UTC

An hour after this was shot in NYC, the queue had swelled to nearly 1,200 people

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The second edition of Apple (AAPL) tablet computer drew the largest crowd I’ve ever seen at New York’s Fifth Avenue Apple Store. This was shot at 4 p.m. Friday. By the time the doors of the big glass cube opened, Gene Munster’s team at Piper Jaffray had counted 1,190 heads.

It took 4 minutes and 38 seconds to walk the line. If that’s too long, I’ve squeezed the video down to 1 minute and posted the shortened version below the fold.

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