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January 28th, 2010, 11:05
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Apple Australia just became one of the first international sites to introduce the iPad to its pages. That gives us a pretty good indication of Apple's plans for a global launch: same "late March" ship for Wi-Fi only models and April for 3G models (carrier yet to be announced). Fine, but it's not what we see that has us intrigued so much as what's missing: the iBookstore (http://www.engadget.com/tag/ibooks) and any indication of the iBooks app. This doesn't look like an oversight but rather its purposeful removal from any images or feature lists. Guess we shouldn't be too surprised; going back to the press release we see the following: "iBookstore will be available in the US at launch." Seems Apple meant to say, only in the US, eh? Rest easy Bezos, the iPad has a long way to go before it's any competition to the Kindle.
[Thanks, Robert S.]iPad iBooks will be US only at launch (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/ipad-ibooks-will-be-us-only/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Apple Australia just became one of the first international sites to introduce the iPad to its pages. That gives us a pretty good indication of Apple's plans for a global launch: same "late March" ship for Wi-Fi only models and April for 3G models (carrier yet to be announced). Fine, but it's not what we see that has us intrigued so much as what's missing: the iBookstore (http://www.engadget.com/tag/ibooks) and any indication of the iBooks app. This doesn't look like an oversight but rather its purposeful removal from any images or feature lists. Guess we shouldn't be too surprised; going back to the press release we see the following: "iBookstore will be available in the US at launch." Seems Apple meant to say, only in the US, eh? Rest easy Bezos, the iPad has a long way to go before it's any competition to the Kindle.
[Thanks, Robert S.]iPad iBooks will be US only at launch (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/ipad-ibooks-will-be-us-only/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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