Simoe Straehle, center, celebrates being the first customer to have purchased an Apple iPad on the first day of sale in Germany at the Apple Store in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on Friday morning, May 28, 2010. Apple Inc. launched the iPad in nine countries on Spain, Friday, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland and Britain, and shoppers queued in the hopes of getting the hand-held computer.
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