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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."
iPad sales dropped down to ~10%
Well, at least they're right about exceeding sales expectations. That's way more than I expected anyone to buy.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
That $500 million is spent on recruiting stupid fanbois.
But... Slashdot has already declared the iPad a failure!
#DeleteChrome
Suffice to say, we can probably get 3-4 rounds from these same people....maybe a USB port for the 3rd go round? Boy, will they lap THAT up...."
" For round 4.....we'll rumor Flash compatibility, but not deliver it, of course.....we'll please the masses with a custom Steve Jobs signature edition, complete with virtual-arrogance, and disdain for all things with pre-emptive multitasking! "
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/
Could it be that people actually want products that you don't?
I considered this, but it's just not likely. I mean, I can't see why they'd want it.
--Obyron
Exactly. You can sell Ice to Eskimo's. You just need to value add! Look! Yellow snowcones. What?!? It's lemon!
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
News for Macfags,stuff that doesn't matter.
Exactly. You can sell Ice to Eskimo's. You just need to value add! Look! Yellow snowcones. What?!? It's lemon!
If Apple sold lemonade-flavored snow cones, here is how Slashdot would react:
"Oh please, people have been making yellow snow cones for years!"
"You can't eat with unless you have a special cup for it! (Well I don't know if that's actually true but it sounds plausible!)"
"I've never tried one, but I know they're not actually sweet! Steve Jobs just told them to like it! Sugar is just a marketing term they made up."
"If you go to the Kwik-E-Mart you can get other flavors, too. If you look hard enough, you can even buy them from your neighbor's kids from their stand down the street! They don't taste as good, the quality is not as consistent, and the coloring will run down your sleeve, but you have choice!"
"Heaps and heaps of people only by them so they can show off their yellow mustaches!"
... etc.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
-- all separate, i.e. five stories.
Someone needs to submit a story about this.
And of course, the other half of Slashdot would spend months evangelising Apple's new revolutionary yellow snow cones which will change the way people think about snow cones forever, it'll be bigger, tastier, creamier, more nutritious, it will solve world hunger and help develop higher brain functions. Then on the day of release when they find out it's just a regular snow cone that Steve Jobs pissed on, they'll still buy them up in their thousands, all the while singing Apple's praises for how they haven't burdened the cone with features people don't want but instead have kept it simple and easy to use.
I don't know about everyone else, but this made me really want to try one of Apple's lemon snow cones.
my opportunity to freely express myself with the potential persecution and hangings and such
FTFY:
"It doesn't matter that people have been making yellow snow cones for years, no one started eating them until Apple came along, and they were the ones who popularised it!"
"You can't eat with unless you have a special cup for it, but that's a good thing, it makes the product better!"
"Apple make the best ones, even though I've not tried all the other ones on the market. In fact I wasn't even aware alternatives existed. If you tell me that Apple aren't the largest producer in the market and show data to back that up, I'm going to pretend it isn't true."
"It doesn't matter that the Apple ones don't taste as good, the quality is not as consistent, and the coloring will run down your sleeve - what's important is that it gives you a superior tasting experience. I can't explain how it's better, it just is, you just have to believe."
"It doesn't matter that over cones look better on paper. What's more important is that this shows off my yellow moustache."
Not to mention the absurdity that Slashdot would start covering snow cones as soon as Apple produced the iCone, even though it obviously doesn't now.
The fact that people have made phones/tablets/etc for years is worth mentioning, because so many people round here, including the coverage from Slashdot, suggests the belief that Apple really were first.
With your second comment, are you suggesting that the policies about Apple's App Store and what an Iphone can't do unless jailbroken and so on are simply made up? My sources for these claims are Apple users themselves - who insist that it's a good thing that their phone is locked down like this.