Apple pushes back delivery of Aussie iPad orders to June 8th

David Flynn
13 May 2010, 10:49 AM


Too many orders or not enough iPads? Either way, if you haven't already placed your pre-order for the iPad you'll have to wait until at least June 8th for delivery.


Apple's Australian online store has pushed back the shipping and delivery dates for pre-orders of the iPad by two weeks.

Until yesterday, orders placed for both the Wi-Fi and 3G iPad would be shipped on May 26th, in time for delivery on (or even the day before) the Australian launch date of May 28th.

But there's either been a flurry of orders or a serious shortfall of iPads – or perhaps a bit of both – because Apple has now shifted the shipping dates for pre-ordered iPads to June 7th, with deliveries starting from June 8th.

So if you haven't already staked your claim to the tempting touchscreen tablet, you'll just have to wait a little longer – or take your chances at an Apple store or retailer.






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Tin (Regular user):

Not a good look for Apple... How did they fail so badly with the demand predictions?
Or are they doing this on purpose to keep media attention up?

13 May 2010, 12:03 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

itd (New user):

Quoting Tin:
Or are they doing this on purpose to keep media attention up?


I honestly believe they are doing this to get attention - I was in the USA (including major stores such as those in New York) in the weeks after launch and I was amazed to see the scores of iPads sitting there on display with nobody even touching them - I asked quite a few stores about stock and the non-apple stores all claimed they were not selling many...

13 May 2010, 12:32 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

plutonium210 (User):

Quoting Tin:
How did they fail so badly with the demand predictions?

Maybe they based their production numbers on the comments the iPad got on this forum.

Seems the iPad is doing quite well, irrespective of the APC Forums :)




13 May 2010, 12:45 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

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