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Apple can’t sell Ipads in the UK
CAUGHT FLATFOOTED WITH NO EXCUSE, Apple can't provide supply for the UK launch of the devices at online stores.
Check out the home page at Apple's online store and you'll note that its fanbois are promised a slice of techno-heaven. With a whiff of hyperbole, Apple tells its UK customers that the "magical and revolutionary" Ipad is coming on May 28.
But it's all just make believe. All WiFi and 3G versions of Apple's Ipad are listed with with a June 7 ship date, with no explanation for the discrepancy.
What gives, Apple?
"The Ipad launch date is still May 28. Pre-orders for the Ipad placed on the Apple Online Store before the shipping date moved back to June 7, will still be delivered for May 28.
"You will also be able to go along to the Apple Retail Store and select authorised resellers on May 28 to purchase [the] Ipad, while supplies last," an Apple PR representative told The INQUIRER.
In other words, if you want to buy an Ipad on May 28, don't use Apple's online store. It looks like you stand more of a chance buying an Ipad from an accredited retailer because Apple has already met its quota of allocated products.
Failing that, pop along to Apple's retail store and wait in line with the fanbois, who have been queuing up since it was officially announced back in January.
The official statement we received from an Apple spokesperson went like this: "Demand for Ipad has been off the charts. We are working hard to get Ipads into customer's hands as quickly as possible."
Don't let our Apple fanbois baiting get you down. Leave that to Philip Yeo, chairman of Singapore Spring, the standards authority for Singapore's government. Mr Yeo was previously chairman of Singapore's Agency for Science and Technology Research. He has been a technology evangelist for over thirty years and is well known for telling it like it is.
Yeo was giving a talk yesterday at the Fullerton-St Joseph's Institution when he was asked what he thought of the Ipad. Yeo then held court for 43 seconds as seen in this Youtube clip, complete with critical remarks about Apple. You don't want to watch this if your name is Steve Jobs.
Yeo said, "You need gullible customers to make money," and he said that Apple customers are "ninety-nine percent dummies."
His beef with Apple is its business model. Yeo said that the money Apple makes is not on the Ipad hardware, but from the prices that people are willing to pay for "all kinds of useless applications." µ
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Yeah it's obviously a trick to get people to queue so that they can give the impression everybody wants an tie-me-down-pad, and I bet it won't even work by lack of real interest.
Or maybe I'm too optimistic? Deal with it if I am.
Got to hand it to Apple. You'd have to pay me to own an Ipod, Ipad or whatever other piece of crap they sell, but the money they earn off the sheep in our society must be phenomenal.
And to top it off, they add another remedial "feature" which warrants new product status!
I can't wait to see the noobs sitting in coffee shops wondering why their wifi isn't working or why their battery lasts about 20mins haha
Wow, more amazing reporting from the Inq.
Seriously though, bad title, bad conclusions, insulting people as fanbois?
You must be so proud of your work.
I'm not exaclty an apple 'fanboi' here, and like others I dont see a place for the Ipad/iPad/IPAD/ipad (who cares?!?) but I do like to keep up with what is happening in the world, and to see articles like this actually get published takes the P***.
The reason that "iPad" is formatted that way it is, is simply marketing. yes it does not follow the normal rules of grammer, but then again what kind of nimrod would get so worked up about it in the first place.
Seriously .. get a girlfriend!
Apple learned from its mistakes resulting in empty queue lines in the U.S. . If they force online sales to wait, then they'll entice more rabid fanbois to line up in queues outside of Apple stores so their media buddies can park a van outside with a camcorder and put it on your "tellies" (the media buddies that they HAVEN'T pissed off yet by sending the cops to raid their apartments) That and the people looking to buy up all the preorders and throw them on eBay and overcharging (wait... they're already overpriced anyway) will have to pack their queues too...
Proper nouns begin with a capital letter. I learned that when my age was in single digits. Ipad is a proper noun - a name, in other words.
Ask yourself the following question: "Who is more foolish - the fool, or the fool who follows him?" Just because Apple's marketing wonks decide to spell it "iPad" doesn't mean they are correct, and just because Apple spell it that way doesn't mean it's the correct way, either.
(You may as well apply the same argument to people who pronounce "nuclear" as "nucular", as far as I'm concerned. Some people know - some people don't. End of story.)
my answer to Paolo:
because Inkuirer envies Apple.
Why The Inquirer cannot manage to write iPad in the correct way?
I pre-ordered the iPad 3G, as did many others (obviously), and my delivery date is still 28th May. The fact that the delivery date for subsequent orders is later would indicate that there is a huge demand for the product. Gosh, this supply and demand stuff is very difficult to understand, isn't it?
What part of supply and demand didn't they teach you in third grade?
His beef with Apple is its business model. Yeo said that the money Apple makes is not on the Ipad hardware, but from the prices that people are willing to pay for "all kinds of useless applications." µ
Hmm how about the fact Apple made 1 billion out of 16 on Itune and barely broke even... Looks like profit are coming out of hardware sales to me
They sold out in 3 days so they had to push back orders.... Is it that hard to understand?
Hi,
Your title suggests that Apple has iPads to sell in the UK but can't. Your article says the opposite: That Apple doesn't even have iPads to ship until a later date.
Which brings me to the "wrong conclusion" part: That date windows continues to slide according to how many pre-orders have come in and how many computers are allocated to Online pre-orders.
This is what the June 7 date means: Those who pre-ordered the iPad while the date said May 28, will get it on May 28. Some who did not pre-order and choose to show up at the Apple store on May 28 will still get iPads to buy for as long as stock (store allocation) lasts. Some who go to best buy on the 28th will also get iPads to buy.
iPad International launch date is still May 28 and on that day, several persons will get iPad shipped to their homes or get some to buy at the outlets.
but it applies not only to apple customers, but every dumb ass that has been shopping computers since word perfect ruled msdos or so. the improvement in productivity since word perfect has been minimal. oh yeah, we got the internet you say, but did it make us more productive? the jury is still out. email is useful, sure, but the rest? 99.99% waste of time if you ask me.
I preordered. iPad a few days ago and I will get it on May 28.
Since yestarday. Apple has shifted the delivering to May 7.
It is a question of few days, in doing fact, whereas all the competitors of Apple make just promises and bla bla bla...
Hey mogwai, please point out all the plastic on the iPad.
Goes to show how many suckers there are in the UK. Reading this article tells me all the applewanabees are queing in line for their overpriced worthless piece of plastic so i guess i don't need to worry about them crying when people poke fun at their expense??
does it not imply that they've sold out of their first batch of machines and need to wait for more deliveries from China? You'll find that kind of thing with pretty much any high demand consumer product. Just because something is LAUNCHED on a given date doesn't mean that it's available to people who wander in off the street.