Is the Apple iPad a success? I guess so as evidenced by the sales numbers! Good gosh, they can't seem to keep up with the demand...I wish I had a piece of this action!

Oh well, this from the New York Times:


Responding to strong demand in the United States for its iPad, Applesaid Wednesday that it would delay the worldwide release of the tablet computer for a month.

“Faced with this surprisingly strong U.S. demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May,” Apple said in a statement.

The company said in a statementthat it had delivered more than 500,000 iPads during the first week that it was on the market, but that demand was “far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks.”

The tablet computer went on sale in the United States on April 3 and Apple reported that it soldmore than 300,000 iPads on the device’s first day on the market, a figure that included preorders.

Apple said that it would announce international pricing and begin taking online orders for the iPad on Monday, May 10.