While I was looking, a Florida based phone repair crew was working overtime to get service restored.

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Asif Noorani, the founder of Dr. Cell Phone, a chain of repair shops in Texas, has also seen one iPad.

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Jobs didn't often pick up the phone to go back and forth with customers, but at least one Apple customer, Scott Steckley, recalls a time when an e-mail to Jobs, explaining how there seemed to be no end in sight to his wait for a computer repair, was met with a phone call.

CNN: Mark Milian,