The biggest draw he feels is the “big video screen” of a tech tool that enables users to surf the Net faster than the iPhone, play games and do almost everything one can do on a laptop. Customers - most of them existing Apple users - had told us days in advance to let them know as soon as it was in,” he says. “Our first stock got sold out when it arrived four days ago. Babli Kripalani of Bang Bang, a gadget store in AC Market, has witnessed quite a scramble. The apple of everyone’s ‘i’ is drawing Apple devotees and the do-the-new brigade. In the US market, the price tag today reads $499 (Rs 22,113) for 16GB and $599 (Rs 26,544) for 32GB. The interface is so compelling that we have been selling eight-10 pieces a day,” says the storeowner from whom Chatterjee bought his latest Apple fix.īrought in from Singapore and Hong Kong, the WiFi version of the iPad is selling in the grey market for Rs 40,000 (16GB) and Rs 50,000 (32GB). “We didn’t think that our customers would be so excited but those who are coming in to buy something else are seeing the iPad and picking it up. “It will take months for it to officially come to town and being a Mac user for the past 10 years I couldn’t bear to wait that long,” he says, tapping the treasured 9.7-inch touchscreen at his Tollygunge studio.Ĭhatterjee has been joined by a fast-growing line of tech buffs in town. The multi-touch masterpiece of Steve Jobs slipped into Calcutta’s grey market seven days after the US launch on April 3 and those buying it are busy flaunting it.Īmong the first off the iPad blocks was Agnidev Chatterjee, a film director, who picked one up on April 10 from a mall in south Calcutta. The iPad is here, hush-hush, and a hot-seller, not so hush-hush.
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