Do people realise outside the USA and Canada, there is no 4G access for the iPad and even with the US coverage is patchy and data is capped for most? When 4G arrives in Europe and the world in a couple of years it will need a brand new radio chip to work. A Verizon 4G iPad will only run 4G in the United States, on a Verizon network where there is coverage not anywhere else. Ofcourse it switches down to 3G everywhere else but that's not the point of this thread, Im only talking real world 4G LTE usage, the 70+Mb download speeds Apple were talking about.
In international markets I think Apple have a responsibility to make it clear that they are only going to getting 3G, beefed up 3G but 3G none the less, not 4G LTE.
On Apples UK website, 4G being branded as a feature. This is just wrong. There is no 4G network in the UK and when it does arrive sometime after 2015 it will be based on a totally different standard. Its like advertising NTSC or CDMA. These are USA/Canada specific features. Apple are going to be giving themselves a big headache when European customers who have very little technical awareness start asking why theyre not getting 4G usage on their 3G networks.
The 4G LTE feature should be downplayed in non-US territories.
I applaud Apple pushing 4G LTE in the US and Canada, two of the very few countries with 4G networks (yay Apple!), for everyone they need to know they are getting 3G.
