Californians like this random Apple co-founder will get their iPads later than you will.
It’s dark and Steve Wozniak still doesn’t have his iPad.
The Apple co-founder is lined up outside an Apple store at the Westfield Century City Mall, near Los Angeles, waiting to get Apple’s latest tablet computer.
"It’s become a ritual almost because I’ve done it so many times," Wozniak Shira Lazar as he waited on the sidewalk for an opportunity to buy an iPad.
Meanwhile, everyone else -- New Yorkers, Asians, Europeans -- have had their iPads for hours. In Australia, an IPad has been purchased, torn apart, and its guts posted on the Web for all to see.
Apple's latest tablet computer goes on sale at retail outlets March 16, of course, the same in California as everywhere else. The problem: March 16 happens earlier in some places than in others. Places that are less deserving than others.
In California, where the iPad was designed, where Apple was founded, and where the first commercially viable integrated-circuit was built, however, you’ve got to wait. And watch videos of other people enjoying their iPads -- without the benefit of the new iPad’s new high-resolution screen.
Live in California and need your iPad early? Then you've got to swallow your pride and go to the local branch of Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart, which put the tablets on sale at exactly 12:01 today -- and that's still later than everyone else who went to Wal-Mart.
Damn you international dateline.
