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Heavy US Demand Delays iPad's Worldwide Release
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."
A technical, hardware, software, and geek usability failure maybe; but not a failure on apple's part to market the hell out of it, convince a bunch of people it's awesome, and doing it with nothing more than a large sized ipod touch. You have to hand it to apple, they do make a very nice UI for laymen. Only those of us who frequent technology sites like slashdot care about what can be done with it and all the unique ways to do it, everyone else just wants a pretty device that does neat things and that they can't possibly break by deleting /system32/ or whatever. Apple simplified a design they've been going with for years, create a device so easy, their lobotomised customers with ADD feel like they're doing something important with it and can understand how it works.
Orwell was an optimist.
Yes, we do feel threatened by Apple because Apple has been playing evil tricks since the 1980's. They tried through legal tricks to become the only company making GUIs, using technology they copied from others. And they're trying to pull the same thing with iPad and iPhone. At the same time, they misrepresent where their technologies are coming from, and people like you believe them.
Yes, we're worried and we're outraged, and we have a right to be.