Good news for Apple.
Bad news for its European fans.
Good news for their shareholders.
Bad news for Steve Jobs critics.
And good news for resellers.
As Reuters said: Apple decision to delay the sale of its iPad overseas may frustrate customers around the wortld but it brightened the day of at least a few crafty fans closer to home. So-called resellers, opportunists who scoop up hot products and sell them over the Web at inflated prices, have recently been charging premiums of more than $500 on sites like Craigslist or eBay for the iPad.
Bloomberg reports that Apple shipped more than 500,000 iPads during the first week and expects demand to exceed its supply for the next several weeks, according to a statement today.
So the iPad will be not sold outside the United States until the end of May.
The reaction of the markets was, again, very strong and the Apple shares hit new record numbers.
At $245.81 the investors were trading Apple very confident about the prospects of a tablet that could be in a few days another sold out product.
As Bloomberh said:
Apple has suffered from shortages before. Its iPhone 3G was sold out at almost all of its U.S. retail outlets 10 days after it was introduced in July 2008. A year later, soaring sales of the iPhone 3GS left it with too few units to meet demand.
UPDATE: Read here Why was Apple’s prediction on iPads so wrong?
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