Standing outside the flagship Apple store this morning was quite a rush. Some people had been in line for days, while some waited less than an hour.

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Seconds before the 9am launch, Apple store employees got the crowd riled up with a count-down. A woman from the crowd said, “A baby has been born.” As people began to file out of the store victoriously with their new gadgets, a woman passing by asked an NYPD officer, “Are they giving them away?”, to which he replied, “It sure seems like it doesn’t it?”

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See below for a cool card trick some new iPad owners developed this morning!

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