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Featured, Opinion - Tuesday, April 27, 2010 8:24 - 62 Comments
Five reasons the iPad will fail in Australia
opinion Like many of you reading this article, I got up at a ridiculous hour of the morning on January 28 to witness the public birth of the latest fruit of Steve Jobs’ fertile mind. I speak, of course, of the iPad.
Since that time there has been countless debate about how Apple’s latest device will fare in Australia when it hits our shores in late May. What kind of mobile access plans will telcos like Telstra and Optus launch to support it? We don’t know. How much will it sell for? We don’t know. How big will the catalogue of iBooks in Australia be? Again, we don’t know.
If you’re detecting a trend here, it’s because we don’t know much. Gizmodo might be leaking Apple news in the US left right and centre (hello, next-generation iPhone), but in Australia it’s rare that any real nugget of information escapes the company’s all-encompassing reality distortion machine.
There’s just not enough information yet to know whether the iPad will succeed or fail yet in Australia. But here’s five reasons why it might.











