I just got the new iPad, and since I backed up my old iPad using iCloud, I restored from the iCloud backup. After restore, it restarted and began downloading all the apps.
Now, I have all these apps on my Mac, so I plugged in the iPad at this point and clicked "Sync". The sync has not finished yet (it's still copying music), but iTunes has restored all of the apps first.
However, on the iPad all of the apps still appear as 'waiting' even though iTunes seems to have installed them.
Will this magically fix itself after sync, do I need to reboot, or is it more complicated?
EDIT
I gave up, and did a backup and restore via iTunes.
Best Answer
I had the same "waiting" problem as well. I think what is happening is that lots of people are hitting the iCloud server at the same time on the "Happy New iPad" day and the system is slowing down. I did a hard shutdown and then let it sit by itself - and then slowly but surely the apps started to resync. So sit back, grab a beverage of choice, and let the cloud do its thing (slowly).