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It's official. Those that doubted the Apple iPad is another Apple game changer like the iPhone can now eat their hats.
Apple's decision to delay the international launch of the iPad touch-screen tablet until the end of May in the wake of astronomical US sales is evidence of the market phenomenon that is the Apple iPad, said Apple resellers.
"Apple has hit it out of the park again," said Nick Gold, sales manager for Chesapeake Systems, one of the leading Apple Video VARs in the country. "I'm at the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) show and I am seeing iPads everywhere. Everyone is really jazzed about it."
Apple Wednesday said it has delivered a whopping 500,000 iPads in only one week. Not only that, Apple said it has taken a "large number" of pre-orders for the Apple iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.
Gold said that analysts that were predicting that Apple would sell 3 million or 4 million iPads in 2010 are going to be way off the mark.
Apple, for its part, said "demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks."
Apple plans to announce international iPad pricing and begin taking online pre-orders on May 10.
Apple had previously said the iPad would be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the U.K. in late April.
One sign of the iPad's growing influence is the number of companies planning to unleash iPad applications.
"After selling almost 500,000 in the first few days, it's obvious that the numbers will exist for many killer apps -- and infrastructure companies -- to be a part of another successful Apple ecosystem," said Michael Oh, founder and CEO of Boston-based Apple reseller Tech Superpowers.
Next: Looking For The Next Killer App For The iPad
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