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counting down to day one for iPad too,

iPhones in the real world and fantasy land,

and rumored changes for Apple retail,

it's Tuesday, March 8, 2011. I'm Ken Ray and this is news

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If I had iPad twos to sell this Friday, boy, oh boy, would you know about it. I'd probably put up signs and run ads and maybe hire a

clown. A nice one, not a scary one. Scary clowns are, well they're scary, aren't they?

Anyway, that's how I would do it, but apparently not U.S. Retailer Target.

Electronista says they said quietly this past weekend that their stores would carry the iPad too on launch day this Friday, March 11th.

Cleaglights. I'd also have Cleaglights.

In case any scary Clown showed up.

Meanwhile, a target spokesman tells PC World that its trade-in program will take in original

iPads should people want to sell old ones for new, though the electionista piece has that starting on Sunday, March 13th, not Friday

the 11th.

So that's Apple, Target and Best Buy, set the cell iPad 2 from day one, though there's some question about what exactly

Best Buy will have to offer. The piece says Best Buy's listings for iPad 2

only showed the black model and the only 3G models they list are for AT&T with no mention of the Verizon

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