Here’s a bad news for international users who are waiting for official iPad release. According to Apple, they have sold more than 500k iPads in the first week and demand of new iPads is increasing each day.
This unexpected demand is causing some problems in future international iPad launch. Now, Apple team has decided to postpone their schedule of launching iPad worldwide by one month.
International users will have to wait for one more month to get their hands on iPad. One month delay is too much and it will surely affect the future sales of iPad in international market.
Here’s what Apple says -
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.
Faced with this surprisingly strong US demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May. We will announce international pricing and begin taking online pre-orders on Monday, May 10. We know that many international customers waiting to buy an iPad will be disappointed by this news, but we hope they will be pleased to learn the reason—the iPad is a runaway success in the US thus far.