Rest of world gets iPad this week. Do you care?

Apple decided to phase the release of the iPad so that US mer­chants were able to sell the units (in the US) much earli­er than mer­chants in ROW (Rest Of World) nations could, due to man­u­fac­tur­ing pro­cess con­cerns. Which is cool, because Asi­an factor­ies can only churn out so many iPads per day. And man­aging the release ensures that Apple can man­age the PR and media blitz (hype) sur­round­ing the ROW releases. …more

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