Manager of the Phone Island shop poses on May 11, 2010 with Apple's mass market iPad touchscreen portable tablet computer that he has been selling since the end of April in Saint-Denis de la Réunion. The much-anticipated consumer gadget was launched on the US domestic market on April 3, and will go on sale outside the United States in nine major countries for the first time on May 28. The manager imported the tablets to sell at higher prices in advance in this French territory. Getty Images logo Getty Images 19 months ago

Manager of the Phone Island shop poses on May 11, 2010 with Apple's mass market iPad touchscreen portable tablet computer that he has been selling since the end of April in Saint-Denis de la Réunion. The much-anticipated consumer gadget was launched on the US domestic market on April 3, and will go on sale outside the United States in nine major countries for the first time on May 28. The manager imported the tablets to sell at higher prices in advance in this French territory.

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