Fans queue overnight as Apple’s iPad goes on sale

IN the basement of Paris’s Louvre museum, the early line for Apple’s iPad far surpassed that for entry to see the Mona Lisa.

Hundreds queued up at the Apple store in the Carrousel du Louvre shopping centre in the museum complex, with staff cheering every purchase, as sales outside the US of the tablet computer began.

And in Belfast, gadget fans who queued all night outside the Apple store yesterday became some of the first people in Ireland to buy an iPad.