Heavy US Demand Delays iPad's Worldwide Release 314
Dave Knott writes "The international launch of the iPad has been delayed until late May, a one month setback from the original launch window of late April. Citing Apple's press release: 'Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.' International pricing will be announced on May 10, at which time international pre-orders are expected to begin."
Re:Marketing (Score:4, Informative)
Microsoft spends almost twice as much as Apple as a percentage of revenue on marketing. Apple spends about the same amount as Dell.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2009/10/28/apples-2009-ad-budget-half-a-billion/ [cnn.com]
Could it be that people actually want products that you don't?
Thank god! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Marketing (Score:5, Informative)
Yes, there really was no announcement on release date before Apple said they will be delaying it. Marketing at its finest.
Well here in Australia they where saying it would be released at the end of April, it has now been changed to late May.
Re:Marketing (Score:5, Informative)
March 5th, UK - End of April launch http://www.nma.co.uk/news/apple-announces-april-uk-release-date-for-ipad/3010816.article [nma.co.uk]
March 5th, European release - End of April launch http://www.cln-online.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=612:ipadrelease&catid=40:industry&Itemid=135 [cln-online.org]
In a post below you said you'd eat your hat. Can you post that on youtube? Thanks.
Re:Marketing (Score:2, Informative)
Nur...
He was talking % of revenue, not total spend in $, so number of product is not relevent.
Try responding to a comment you understand next time, and who could mod you as interesting?
Re:Thank god! (Score:2, Informative)
Paska is Finnish and means Shit if translated to English.
The two Theys (Score:3, Informative)
So, first they expect to sell 700k on the first day: (link to "The Street")
But actually they sell 300k (insert link to Apples press release)
How is "The Street" a spokesman for Apple? Apple never gave any estimates, so you have two totally different "theys" you claim to be catching in a restatement.
But then, I'd expect nothing less than embarrassingly misleading points from card-carrying Apple Hater.
Re:Superiority complex (Score:3, Informative)
The only reason that HTTP is "text-based" is because that's the way UNIX is designed and it derived from the UNIX community.
That seems like a stretch to me. HTTP was text-based largely because most other similar network protocols to date were text-based - most notably, FTP, and that one was originally spec'd in 1971, when Unix was still in its infancy - and definitely not in a state where it was usable for network servers. Indeed, the original FTP RFC (114 [ietf.org]) only mentions reference implementations on Multics and ITS.
iPad banned in Israel already (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Marketing (Score:4, Informative)
I don't think much of your research. That's from October last year. The report from the same company is widely available for Feb this year, and it has Apple on 25.4% and MS on 15.1%.
http://comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/4/comScore_Reports_February_2010_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share [comscore.com]
Worldwide, they both do less well, because Symbian is still holding on ot the lion's share. Apple 15.1%, Microsoft 8.8%.
http://www.canalys.com/pr/2010/r2010021.html [canalys.com]
Worst bet ever. Number of apps on Microsoft's own Windows Marketplace for Mobile = 872. Number of Apps on iTunes = 185,000.
Re:Marketing (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Marketing (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.motorola.com/Business/US-EN/Business+Product+and+Services/Mobile+Computers/Handheld+Computers [motorola.com]
Re:The iPad will redefine the industry (Score:3, Informative)
Here's what Jobs thought of the Segway:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html [hbs.edu]
Re:Not it is not (Score:4, Informative)
Of course. Which is one of the things that proves my point. People are already using touchscreen devices for work. The iPad will also be used for work.
MAY require? Policy MAY require that they use the iPad issued to them to fill out the form on the exterprise app its supplied with.
Which just shows your ignorance of flying planes. Pilots have been buying apps to help with piloting planes since the very first PDAs came out. It's not a distraction from piloting, it *IS* piloting. And pilots already use such apps on the iPhone. Regardless of what you in your ignorance would prefer they do.
Now that's the dumbest thing you said, because a look at the tech specs would have shown you that the iPad comes with a dock connector that you can plug a VGA or composite video cable into. Just as you could with the iPhone and iPod touch before it.
Furthermore, of course theres an app for that. Keynote, part of iWork. Announced the same day as the iPad. Available the same day as teh iPad came out. Better than Powerpoint. And again if you'd bothered to look you would have seen that output via VGA or composite cable is specified as a feature to be used with that app. http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/keynote.html [apple.com]
Yes, they're good for light data entry tasks. Which is why I said as much. But a letter is certainly within the easy capability of an iPad's touch screen. You just wouldn't want to spend all day writing letters on one.