The only model left at Apple's Fifth Ave. flagship store Saturday was the $829 Verizon 3G.
Second-day iPad 2 stories were dominated by reports of long lines and product shortages, some of them clearly colored by the reporter's personal disappointment.
Mark Gurman's piece about "poor retail launch planning" posted at 9to5 Mac, for example, might not have been as critical of Apple (AAPL) if, after waiting 10 hours in line at the company's Century City store, he hadn't watched a buyer in front of him let friends jump the queue and clean out the last of the model Gurman had set his heart on.
New York City's Fifth Avenue retail outlet -- which prides itself as the world's best-supplied Apple Store -- ran out of all but the 64 GB Verizon 3G at 11:00 p.m. Friday, 6 hours after it began admitting a crowd that Apple estimated (unofficially) at between 1,200 and 2,000.
"You should have seen it," one staffer said the next day. "The minute we announced that we only had Verizon iPads left, half the line disappeared."
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