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SYDNEY/SAN FRANCISCO: Apple's new iPad accepted to be addition hot-seller on Friday, with hundreds queueing afore aurora in Sydney to be the aboriginal to get their easily on the 4G-ready book computer as the company's allotment amount hit $600 for the aboriginal time.

As consumers lined up about burghal streets to buy the iPad 3, one close that took the accessory afar said Qualcomm (QCOM.O), Broadcom (BRCM.O), and Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) had all captivated assimilate their admired roles as key genitalia suppliers.

Apple's own outlets were baffled to the bite for the aboriginal abundance sales by Australian fizz aggregation Telstra (TLS.AX), which started affairs in Sydney and Melbourne aloof afterwards midnight, eight hours afore Apple's flagship food opened.

David Tarasenko, a 34-year-old architecture administrator who was the aboriginal to aces up the iPad from Telstra, said anytime aback Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook appear the tablet's third iteration, he couldn't delay to get one.

"When Tim Cook appear it, it articulate like such a bewitched tool. I aloof got absorbed into it, I guess," he said.

Others were blessed to delay for the Apple flagship Sydney abundance to open, and by morning the chain alfresco had snaked about a burghal block.

"I've appear from Hong Kong because this archetypal is not accessible in Hong Kong. The appearance are actual revolutionary," second-in-queue Bob Cheung told Reuters.

"I've got the aboriginal one and I skipped the additional one. This is a big aberration anatomy the aboriginal one. The processing speed, memory, graphical capabilities and aggregate like that," said addition customer, Michael Kelly.

Crowds were bottomward on antecedent Apple launches, but there was still action as food opened. The fizz helped actuate its shares to almanac highs in U.S. barter on Thursday, with Apple banal affecting a aerial of $600.01 afore abatement back.

It ailing bisected an hour afterwards the aboriginal iPad went on auction in Australia, extending the bazaar account of the world's best admired aggregation to about $560 billion. Only a ages earlier, it had beyond $500. The banal has jumped 45 percent this year.

At the closing amount of $585.56, the banal is still added big-ticket than the $499 starting amount for a Wi-Fi-only iPad.