The squeeze and the splurge | Peter Preston
Shoppers look at an iPad as they queue outside an Apple store in central London. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images
It was, in its way, the most impressive mass demo of the lot. Long queues shuffling peacefully along Oxford Street – and simultaneously buzzing down high streets around Britain. Hail to the Apple iPad 2, selling over a million on its first weekend. Many more thousands lining up overnight outside hundreds of shops from Worcester to Wolverhampton. Hail to the Nintendo 3DS,
