http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/ Engadget Comments for Apple starts rolling out international iPad pre-orders http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 9th 2010 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/I'mma be, I'mma be, I'mma I'mma I'mma not gonna be watching Hulu]]>May 9th 2010 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/Hulu sucks...I use it at work sometimes when I'm bored but 99% of all my tv shows -- I get from torrents.]]>May 9th 2010 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/Hulu is awesome..
And I get most of my tv shows from TL.]]>May 9th 2010 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/Heh :P TL > *
But if ur on tleech then what u need hulu for!?]]>May 9th 2010 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/When I'm on the go...My Windows Mobile phone does flash wonderfully.]]>May 9th 2010 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
Cos you can't watch Hulu outside the USA anyway.]]>May 9th 2010 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 9th 2010 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 9th 2010 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
You can take your stupid large iPod touch and shove it up your iAss.

I will refuse to pay this kind of money for an extremely crippled device.

The iPads only eye catching feature is its screen size. This is perfect for web browsing, but thats it..
I mite as well get a touch monitor because I dont plan on walking around with a $850 glass tablet.. ]]>May 9th 2010 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 9th 2010 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 9th 2010 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
funny how across the pond you can pre-order but in Canada you still can't even do that!]]>May 9th 2010 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/Canada isn't a real country.
There's no doot aboot it, eh? ]]>May 9th 2010 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
If you're a student you can get a MacBook for £767.28 in the UK, 2.26GHz : 250GB.

iPad (for which no student pricing is available) at the top end is £699.00, 1GHz : 64GB.

One estimate put the cost of building the top end iPad at approximately £234. And so, even after tax and other costs are deducted from it's £699.00 price point, the profit margin is massive - we're talking in the region of 100%.

At the bottom end you can expect to buy a reasonable net-book for between £200 and £300 in the UK, 1.6GHz : 160GB.

Compare that with the lowest end iPad which is 1GHZ : 16GB for £429.00.

The prices I've given below are based purely on the influence that iPad pricing is having on my decision on whether or not to fork out the money for one. As it stands, I'm only interested in the 6GB 3G version but good sense tells me to hold out because I could buy a MacBook for less than a hundred pounds more. I might be pushed to consider buying one if the prices looked a little more like this:

WiFi
16GB - £359
32GB - £419
64GB - £519

3G
16GB -£459
32GB - £519
64GB - £619

I expect iPad pricing to come down within the next six to twelve months. Whether the pricing I've put here is just wild fantasy or whether it'll happen - who knows? All I know is I want an iPad, but not for £699.00. Not even the Pope could sway me for that much, even if it guaranteed my entry to heaven.]]>May 9th 2010 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
And where did you get this estimate from? I hope it wasn't through your own imagination.

The iPad is too expensive for us students, but I doubt Apple had us in mind just yet. By the 2nd or 3rd generation the price would have dropped, and it may have a greater role in education, in which case a student discount will be available. I am waiting till then as I did with the iPhone.]]>May 9th 2010 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 9th 2010 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
i see no reason for your downranking, windows mobile phones DO run flash fine. I wonder why their batteries last longer than 12 minutes... magical?]]>May 9th 2010 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
Via Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a6fOHHpcJv7w]]>May 9th 2010 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/UK prices are insane. You guys always get everything so overpriced. ]]>May 9th 2010 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://j.mp/apple-ipad-banned-in-prestigious-universities]]>May 10th 2010 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 10th 2010 1:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 10th 2010 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
It's just supply and demand. Even at the current price the things are flying off the shelves.

Once the people who are willing to pay a premium slows down, they will drop the price to $299/399 and people like you won't be able to say it's too expensive anymore!

I actually expect them to release an updated iPad in January for $499 while dropping the price of the current iPad to $299.]]>May 10th 2010 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
iPad WiFi 16 GB
US = $ 499
D = $ 668
(but as I say "happy", six months ago it would have been $ 771)
]]>May 10th 2010 5:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/You should know from the past that Apple simply won't do that. It's against their price policy and would be counterproductive to position themselves as a premium manufacturer. They DON'T DROP PRICES! They will update their products just a tini tiny bit as they always have, stay on the same price level and slowly take their old devices off the market.]]>May 10th 2010 5:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
Not ture at all:

In 2007 the cheapest iPod Touch was priced at $299
In 2010 the cheapest iPod Touch is priced at $199
]]>May 10th 2010 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 9th 2010 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/Can i ask u a question...how much of your life to you dedicate towards refreshing engadget and trolling the comments?]]>May 9th 2010 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
Just wanted to say hi

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Nice username......LOL]]>May 9th 2010 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/]]>May 10th 2010 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 10th 2010 2:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G 32GB
Part Number: MC496B/A ]]>May 9th 2010 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 9th 2010 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
i think there is an error in the pricing, what you bought costs the same as my hp touchsmart tm2]]>May 9th 2010 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
It very well may do, but so what? I don't see it as anything more than a gadget toy to enjoy a massive multitude of apps and online connectivity features in a sleek slim keyboardless touchscreen form. I don't want a netbook, I don't want a touch-laptop. This serves fine and paying of my own free will. Why is that so wrong?

We all buy premium toys in our lifetime.]]>May 9th 2010 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 9th 2010 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
well sir i apologise,

you are the first person i have ever seen rationalize an ipad in a way that actually makes sense. bravo.

@ that other dbag

shut up steve.]]>May 9th 2010 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 10th 2010 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 9th 2010 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 9th 2010 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
Hmmm...Are you referring to VAT or.... you just don't know what an Australian Dollar is...?]]>May 9th 2010 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
Its not american dollars, I thought so at for a moment too.

Notice its A$ 629.99 etc... They aren't charging a premium for people overseas... that would be excessive even for Apple.]]>May 9th 2010 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
So thats what the A stands for?
So by "over seas" they mean "just Australia"?


@wesscoat

Usually when Australian dollars are represented it says AUS then the amount. Please forgive my ignorance for not understanding the significance of the letter "A" ]]>May 9th 2010 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/That's funny, cuz i think they ARE charging a premium... 629 australian dollars is about 565 US $... so i'm thinking that's already more expensive, no?

Those charges could be partially (or all) government electronics import duties though. Still not sucks for Australians to have to pay a lil more, but I doubt that's gonna be a deal breaker ]]>May 9th 2010 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 10th 2010 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
But for those who purchase, enjoy!]]>May 9th 2010 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/May 9th 2010 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/09/apple-starts-rolling-out-international-ipad-pre-orders/
I'm Aussie, and the import tax on electronic goods smashes us.

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