Comments on: iPad 2 Availability

By: silikonanswer

silikonanswer — Mon, 16 May 2011 13:36:33 +0000

Hi,

I plan to travel to the USA next week (23-28 May), Do you think there still be shortage of iPads? Last news where from 8 of May and maybe the situation has changed a little since then. I hope so. I plan to buy the Wifi 32 or 64, I don’t mind black or white.

By: Oops: iPad Engraving Error From Apple Gives an ASCII Cat 4 Ears

Oops: iPad Engraving Error From Apple Gives an ASCII Cat 4 Ears — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:03:31 +0000

[...] 2 purchase bought online through the Apple Store, it usually adds about a day onto shipping time. Current delivery times on the iPad 2 are 1-2 weeks, and they’re still nearly impossible to find in stores, so if you’re [...]

By: BPO

BPO — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:14:32 +0000

I found mine with their Walmart inventory search.

By: TM

TM — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 03:01:01 +0000

I really wanted one, now April 20th and still none are available in my area, got sick of waiting and gave up, purchased a Motorola Xoom instead.
Bad luck apple, your marketing tactics lost you a customer.

By: iPad 2 Shipping Time Now 1-2 Weeks

iPad 2 Shipping Time Now 1-2 Weeks — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:23:15 +0000

[...] you’re impatient waiting a couple of weeks may seem like a long time, but as I continue to check availability of iPad 2 by calling around, I find that nearly all Apple Stores continue to sell out every morning. The only [...]

By: mart.bumgarner

mart.bumgarner — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:02:56 +0000

It is totally unaceptable that Apple won’t ship to an army post office box (APO) (overseas).

I’m in the military living in Germany (23years active service) and can’t order an Ipad 2 because I am serving my country overseas! What the heck?

I don’t mind the wait for shipping if Apple will change its sales policy…that is what we [military] do in foreign postings (wait)!

r/mart

By: Joe Kerr

Joe Kerr — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:31:04 +0000

And you believe in the easter bunny too…..

By: Make Your White iPad 2 Glow

Make Your White iPad 2 Glow — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:49:20 +0000

[...] iPad 2 stock at local stores by calling them directly. I continue to contact stores and update the iPad 2 availability page, but what I find is likely different from locale to [...]

By: iPad 2 Inventory Scanner Tool Makes Finding an iPad 2 from Target Stores Easier

iPad 2 Inventory Scanner Tool Makes Finding an iPad 2 from Target Stores Easier — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:34:44 +0000

[...] about every morning I call several Apple Stores and ask about their current inventory and availability of iPad 2 models. Up until this week, stores generally had nothing in stock by the time they opened, and the [...]

By: TechnologyConsultant

TechnologyConsultant — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:38:26 +0000

Actually, Apple is having supplier problems. Nothing to do with marketing hype or trying to build anticipation. Impulse shopping is one thing they WANT because that means the price point is right to capture all you people who cannot wait and think about why you think you need a oversized iphone with no connectivity capability other than a USB cord. Anyways, With the earthquakes in Japan, I wouldn’t count on Apple being able to ramp up their production to meet demands. You might think, ‘oh they get these parts from China”..you’d be right in that systems come from China, but a lot of the proprietary components come from more IP friendly countries like Japan. Anyways, other companies are now pushing hard to take advantage of this inability for Apple to provide the volume, so you will likely see a lot of advertisements come out soon for new tablets and other Ipad like computers. You might even realize that for all the Hype, it’s really just a tablet computer. I hear that Motorola is coming out with a tablet pc that is the same size as the IPAD 2 but actually lighter! and has expandability ports (i.e. you can plug it into your tv via a special cable that takes that goes from a headphone like hole to a monitor like cable that you can plug to another monitor or tv (comes in HDMI as well). Also, it will have these little slide outs that allow you to plug in USB, DVD drive, external harddrive, printer etc. All the connectivity of a PC without having to get bigger or heavier. Also it will have a replaceable screen so that if it breaks, you can simply slide the screen off, unplug a cable and replace it with another one. They did this so they can actually sell screens that can be larger than the body or that have different resolutions as well as colors. AND this is the best part, the new Motorola tablet pc (name to be released before May long weekend) will have a processor that is twice the speed of the IPAD 2, and will also be able to run all microsoft applications and existing PC software! and from what I understand will be priced at only $100 higher than the IPAD 2, and will come at all the same base memory levels (16GB, 32GB as well as a staggering for it’s size 80GB!) Let’s face it, Apple didn’t forecast demand properly on launch, they didn’t plan accordingly with their suppliers, and now they are scrambling to catch up, but as others have seen this coming, they have planned accordingly based on how APPLE screwed up the Ipad launch, and they didn’t take advantage then, but now they will, they had been waiting for the launch of the IPAD2, and to let people feel the pain of not being able to buy one, and now they are ready to launch one of the largest marketing campaigns ever. THey are secretly stocking stores with more than enough to satisfy the IPAD 2 demand, and I personally will be the first to buy this awesome new product that will litteraly blow the ipad 2 out of the water!

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:38:00 +0000

A friend just came back from the Indianapolis store and he was told he’d have to come back in the morning, they “might” get a delivery.

True story…

So I went down to the store and asked for the manager. I stated that I was buying a lot today so I wanted the most experienced person to help. I stated I wanted to buy a 27″ Imac, they brought one up to me, 2 iphone 4′s, an itouch, an 17″ imac pro, I grabbed 2 usb mikes, I had them opening covers for the iphone until found what I wanted. (table was covered in open cases). At this point i had 3 of them running all over. Then i stated I’ll take an Ipad 2…..to which they replied they didn’t have any.

I said “ok, forget the order, i’ll come back some other time”. to which they replied “oh wait we might have one in the back and they brought one up.

I said “cancel the order, ill just take the Ipad…..

My friend now has the Ipad 2

By: iPad 2 Finder for Target Stores

iPad 2 Finder for Target Stores — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:14:27 +0000

[...] you’re still looking for an iPad 2? You’re not alone. The good news is availability of iPad 2 is easing up just a tad, the bad news is you still have to move quick if you want [...]

By: John

John — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:31:05 +0000

Went this morning to the Apple store, at what I thought was an hour early but they had opened already. They said people start lining up at 5am every morning for ipads. (Portland, OR)

By: Max

Max — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:03:15 +0000

LOL. Stopped waiting for and IPad2 today and bought a Galaxy Tab instead.

By: marie

marie — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:00:31 +0000

I got mine today! Like I said above I had my name down at best buy and never heard a thing. I got to my local apple store this morning at about 8 they handed out tickets at 9 and I bought it at 10….best buy hasn’t even gotten any shipments they said they will refund my 100 gift card…seriously if you are looking to get one go to apple..makes sense they would stock their stores first!