The iPad UK launch date, as well its price in Britain are still a secret Cupertino’s keeping close to its chest, despite preparing to tell the world about iPhone OS 4. But new sources point to an exact date when the iPad goes on sale over here, and it makes a lot of sense. Read on for the lowdown on the UK iPad invasion.
Bitter Wallet is reporting from two sources that the iPad UK launch will take place on Saturday 24 April. One insider is someone who “claims to be an Apple employee,” while the other (more authoritative sounding) says Apple’s store staff are not allowed to take holiday on the 24th, suggesting some sort of red letter day is scheduled. Like say, an iPad UK shelf-stacking frenzy.
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We’d take the date of this latest iPad UK rumour with a pinch of salt, but it makes a lot of sense. Apple store staff in Canada have reportedly been placed on holiday lock down for the same day, and if Apple wants a weekend release as it had this Saturday in the US, it’s the only feasible date to meet Apple’s pledge of a late April iPad launch. Thirty one days April has not, so the week after would see a May shipping date, and red faces all ’round Apple’s UK campus.
We’re expecting official word on the iPad UK availability, and the iPad UK price, any time now, so stay tuned right here and you’ll know as soon as Apple coughs up.
Out April | £TBC | Apple (Via Bitter Wallet)
