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European Apple News: Amsterdam Retail Store, iPad to Scandinavia Tomorrow

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Few things: Finland is not part of Scandinavia. Nordic-countries (which is more of a political definition), yes, but not Scandinavia. If you want to talk about geographical area (which Scandinavia is), then the correct term would be Fennoscandia.

Second: it's amazing that it has taken it so long for the iPad to make it's appearance in the Nordic countries. I mean, we are not talking about piss-poor technological backwater here...
 
In the Netherlands the premium resellers are not just shops that 'also sell' apple products. We're talking real dedicated apple resellers. I think they do a great job, but apple stores, I think, can do more justice to the products.

Apple products are full of passion. In order to sell a mac, i think, or any apple product, you have to be aware of this passion, and able to pass it on to the mac-buying-customer.

This does happen in the premium reseller stores, but an apple store just lives up to the vibe around the company more than a premium reseller can.
 
Once upon a time your lovely New York was called New Amsterdam. If the Dutch never traded it for Suriname; most of you would have been speaking Dutch right now!
 
PBF said:
In this context, the word "long" is not fitting, "soon" is. Do you see the difference?
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Yes I see it, "soon" then. :eek:

It doesn't change the fact that some people will wait. Of course, the general public doesn't care and will buy the iPads as crazy.
 
Evangelion said:
...it's amazing that it has taken it so long for the iPad to make it's appearance in the Nordic countries. I mean, we are not talking about piss-poor technological backwater here...
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It's all about iPad 3G negotiations with providers and having the products evaluated and tested by telecommunication regulators. There is no EU-wide "FCC" – we have 27 separate ones.

Whenever Apple releases a new computer, iPod or peripheral, it's a global launch – we get it when Americans get it. The iPhone and iPad are the first products we've had to wait for. I can see why they skipped the original iPhone, it would've been a laughing stock since it didn't support 3G which some EU countries rolled out in 2003. Though I don't really see why they couldn't start selling the WiFi iPad immediately, since technically it's just a giant iPod, but whatever...
 
Anuba said:
It's all about iPad 3G negotiations with providers and having the products evaluated and tested by telecommunication regulators. There is no EU-wide "FCC" – we have 27 separate ones.
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Actually, I believe the testing to obtain the mandatory CE-marking covers this, and that's practically EU-wide. Part of the CE-compliance is a Electromagnetic Compatibility-testing, which is about testing the device for resilience against eletromagnetic radiation, and making sure that the radiation emitted by the device does not exceed legal guidelines. And that's basically what FCC does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_mark
 
Finally!
A real Apple Store here in Holland! :)

We have lots of Apple Premium Resellers (gr8 shops) but having a true Apple Store over is cool!

Ever since Apple BeNeLux had moved from Bunnik to Amsterdam there was lots of speculation about there being an Apple Store on the ground floor.
 
Hope They Can Find Enough "Genuis" Staff

coz they are gonna need them.

Scandinavians are not the sharpest knives in the kitchen.....
 
JulianNeef said:
Once upon a time your lovely New York was called New Amsterdam. If the Dutch never traded it for Suriname; most of you would have been speaking Dutch right now!
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Nope. The Dutch, when colonizing, did not want the locals to learn their language. Dutch was the ruler-language, not something you promote or share with the ruled. The English and French promoted their language. Hence, in India, many people speak English, in Africa it is French and English, but in Indonesia, hardly anybody these days speaks Dutch.

Too bad, Dutch is such a nice archaic language (as the Dutch have been pretty conservative language-wise over the centuries, that is only relaxing recently) with at least one construct that is a fly in the Chomsky-Pinker-ointment
 
norwaypianoman said:
Why include Europe in the title ?
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Kauai said:
Or because this is a US hosted site with a majority American user base? Honestly, you Europeans can be quite sensitive sometimes. The BBC (my main news source) has an American section and I don't freak out. ;)

Also, for what it's worth, I'm an American and can name every country on earth from a blank map.
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:) My norwegian heritage is to complain. We have no problems here. We have to invent them. LOL.

And again. Thanks for the Marshall help and Seinfeld. ;)
 
Well... Ancient Apple "News". Leif Ericson from Iceland invented America. He was over there 500 years before Mr Combo. (Columbus)

If Leif Ericson which discovered America, stayed there a little bit longer, he would probably have invented the iPad lets say around 1500 AD. :) Ha! That is like 500 years before Steve Jobs..

Talk about sharp! :cool: But then again. There would be no Apple Store. And no electricity...
 
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The iPad goes on sale at midnight (in 40 minutes) here in Sweden through Media Markt. I wanted to buy one for my grandmother but I bet even the 16Gb WIFI one is going to be **** expensive :(
 
SeattleMoose said:
coz they are gonna need them.

Scandinavians are not the sharpest knives in the kitchen.....
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I would like to challenge that unsubstantiated assertion.. Even though we, in Scandinavia, are a bunch of lazy liberal socialist, we're not generally stupid (Only about 50% of the population that are voting for left-wing parties can be conceived as, at least, ignorant and naive :D )

Personally my IQ is in the 140-zone, so theoretically my score should be above more than 90% of the world's population.
 
Dusse said:
Even though the iPad haven't launched in Sweden yet, surveys ays that there are already about 60 000 iPads here. That is of course a pretty small number compared to sales in other countries..but it's pretty huge here.
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As an iOS app developer, I'm already seeing sales of iPad apps to Nordic countries well out of proportion to their population sizes (in the good way), compared with the rest of Europe. So I'll bet a whole bunch of developers are looking forward to this official launch. :)
 
Finnish keyboard

Anyone know if this means there will be an update for a Finnish keyboard on iPads bought elsewhere with the official release coming today? Or was that in iOS 4.2? My wife needs this but I don't think has upgraded to 4.2 yet (got it as a gift for her and I've hardly had a go on the iPad since I bought it!)...
 
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