We’ve written a few posts about the Apple iPad. Duncan asks if the iPad is really that cheap ? Steven confirms that iPad doesn’t save old media and Kim doesn’t know what an acceleromter is . Now get ready for the worst (from a European perspective). I have to pay $200 more to buy an iPad from Amazon Germany.
The iPad might be cheap in the US, but Apple has a tendency to believe that the Dollar and Euro basically is the same currency. It is NOT! 1 dollar costs 0.71 Euro. That means 1 Euro costs 1.41 US Dollars. So it is not ok to charge €499 for the “small” iPad, that Americans pay $499 for. That is a $200 price difference!
If I should decide to buy an iPad (when version 2 is out, I did the same with the iPhone) I’ll have to pay €829 for it. That is $1,165.66. Again a $336.66 price difference.
On the positive side you can now preorder an iPad on Amazon.de . You can’t do that on the British Amazon yet. According to Amazon.de it will ship within 2-3 months. I doubt that.
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