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Over 500,000 iPads Sold, Apple Delays International Delivery until May

baryon said:
This was expected but it still sucks! What exactly does "International" mean? Will they be delivering to every single country in the world? Or does it only mean like 3 countries like they did for the original iPhone? Is there an official list somewhere where Apple describes what they mean by "International"?
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They haven't released a list of countries, as far as I know. But since it's not a phone, I doubt that you'll wait long. The 3G link is the one that takes some arrangement in each country, but it's minor compared to getting a phone accepted.

Sorry you'll have to wait. It is an American company, and it launches here first. They follow a "just-in-time" inventory model, and a big success jolts the system.
 
BraveArts said:
I tell you now though, if Apple screw Europe on the price as well as making us wait I for one will not be buying one. I was looking forward to it but now…
not so much!:mad:
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It isn't Apple screwing us, it's the taxman and other factors. The profit margin Apple built into every iPad will be the same the world over.
 
BigJimmyC said:
Bingo! Hence this so-called "shortage" that wasn't around at the developers conference last week, despite the fact that they'd already reached 90% of their current sales by then. They're just trying to manufacture demand after a lousy second week of sales.
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Just a question, How many units did they have available for the second week. Were there units in stock when people came to buy?
 
ct2k7 said:
What goes around comes around. You are only talking to a handful of Europeans, who are actually frustrated that you get things, whilst we meet delays so that your demands are met. Do remember that you have the upper hand and we Non-US developers cannot release our apps to the app store or even submit them until we know they work as they should and eradication of all issues has occurred.
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plenty of them on ebay so any serious developer in another country got the iPad already.
 
julianewus said:
it's nothing special. It doesn't do anything I cannot do already. I will buy it when it has a front facing camera for skype, granted I can use my macbook pro for this, but at that point, I see some viability in the device.
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Oh, good! That means the demand has just decreased by ONE! Thanks!
 
4D4M said:
It isn't Apple screwing us, it's the taxman and other factors. The profit margin Apple built into every iPad will be the same the world over.
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Not really while the majority of the extra we pay is due to the taxman, some of the extra does find its way into apples pockets.
 
iOrlando said:
plenty of them on ebay so any serious developer in another country got the iPad already.
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That is only contributing to the circle in which there may be a heavy demand in the US. I also won't risk having issues with the iPad here that I cannot get it serviced until May.
 
*LTD* said:
It's the usual whining, undergirded by that special sense of entitlement that emerges every time something like this happens.
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It's "entitlement" to expect a company to stick to their announced release dates, and get annoyed when they don't?

Explain.

Nobody "needs" anything beyond basic food, shelter, etc. But we do make fairly important decisions based on reasonable expectations (eg, a promise from a reliable company), and it's frustrating to have to reevaluate a decision when those promises are broken.
 
HLdan said:
I'm definitely taking advantage of this. My local Apple retail store has some iPads in stock. I'm buying a couple of them and sell them on Ebay for a nice high price then when the 3G comes out I'll have plenty enough money earned to basically get one for free. It's great to live in the U.S. :D
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Yeah, you have guns and everything!
 
*LTD* said:
But I thought everyone wanted Flash? Why is demand so high for a product that doesn't do Flash??

This must be eating away at Adobe like nothing else.
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Most of the word does, yes. And they will get it in a couple of months, when all the Android tablet start coming out, including the one from Google/HTC. With hardware acceleration, too.

The Apple ecosystem will be the only one with crippled browser soon, unable to view most major sites in their full glory, but relegated to mobile versions only.

BTW, I thought you guys expected 700,000 sold by the end of the first day...?

All this time has past, and you are still short by a third.

Despite the head start, I'd guess Android will overtake the iPad by the end of the year.
 
4D4M said:
It isn't Apple screwing us, it's the taxman and other factors. The profit margin Apple built into every iPad will be the same the world over.
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No. Even while one Euro was equal to 1.5 Dollar, Apple kept the Euro pricing (before tax) equal to the Dollar pricing. Now they've eased up a little. But only very little.
 
BigJimmyC said:
I don't understand. This thing is losing steam, and all of a sudden supplies are constrained? 300 000 ipads were "sold" on the "first day", and the number was up to 450 000 last thursday am, after 4 more days of sales. Now, it's only at 500 000 after 6 more days. That is to say that (on average) ipads are selling at < 1/4 of the rate that they were between launch and the developers conference. I don't understand what has changed since last week. Were they expecting people to stop buying it altogether? Sounds like they just want an excuse to try to build up more hype. But of course they didn't want their international developers to know too far in advance that they would be shafted....
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Big Jimmy, let me explain how this stuff works. First, you finish iPad development (some might say that hasn't happened yet, but for our purposes this happened at some point in March.) Then tell manufacturer to run 24/7 for two or three weeks building up inventory. Ship inventory to U.S. Sell most of inventory that took weeks to build up over first weekend. Tell manufacturer to start building up inventory for 3G model and to continue to make iPad's 24/7. Orders slow down, but you no longer have a two to three week window to build up inventory and to the extent that you do, you are building up for the 3G launch. That is going to be a big day. Once those to spikes in demand are taking care of, Apple should be able to keep up. The only other way to deal with this would be to (a) build up that inventory initially for a longer period of time, which would have meant delaying opening day or finishing the iPad earlier (recall that wifi issues show that they didn't quite finish it on time) or (b) ramp up more manufacturing ahead of time to handle these spikes only to shut those guys down after the initial spikes in demand (very expensive proposition to turn off a manufacturing plant that has been geared and automated to make an item).
To put it another way, let's say Apple expects to be selling about 15,000 iPads a day once things are just chugging along world wide. They don't want to set up and quality control enough manufacturing to be able to do 30,000 a day. That would be too expensive. So with a production constraint based on the eventual normal sales, it is impossible to completely deal with spikes in demand like on the various launch days. There just isn't the time to build up the inventory.
Sorry non-Americans that your launch is delayed. I suspect that Apple is building up inventory for you guys so that your launch is as smooth as it was here in the States. But this is not a marketing ploy. Apple has a nice lead over HP Slate and the other tablets that are coming later this year. It would like to fill this niche with as many products as it can before anything else viable launches.
 
GoodWatch said:
Ah yes. We Europeans think that you are hypocritical, gun wielding prudes. How does that compare? ;) Relax, it's intentionally sarcastic :D And now send me an iPad! :cool:
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I haven't gotten mine yet, either (pre-ordered a 3G). Europe - when you guys come out with a new kind of stinky cheese, you don't hear me whining that you eat it all up and don't share it with us colonists. The Asians in this thread are being much more reasonable, perhaps because they know that they are actually the ones who get the best stuff first.
 
cmaier said:
Europe - when you guys come out with a new kind of stinky cheese, you don't hear me whining that you eat it all up and don't share it with us colonists.
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Why would you want our refined cheeses when you invented spray cheese in a can ?
 
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