Apple exploiting US Customs to hold iPads back?
updated 04:10 pm EDT, Tue March 30, 2010
May serve PR, anti-scamming purposes
Apple may be exploiting a loophole in US Customs to prevent online iPad orders from arriving ahead of the official schedule, information suggests. The company has so far maintained that the product will only launch on April 3rd, even though shipments having been going out since Monday. Most iPads would arrive early under normal circumstances, deflating some of Apple's PR campaign, while also giving some people an opportunity to resell the device at a high markup.
It is instead claimed that Apple is deliberately withholding documents from US Customs, preventing the shipments from being cleared for entry. Until the documents are delivered iPads will allegedly be unable to pass through UPS' hub facility in Louisville, Kentucky, and from there to individual delivery points. The strategy may be meant to prevent individual UPS branches from intentionally or accidentally breaking street date.
The idea of a block on iPad shipments may be backed by a claim received by MacNN, saying that UPS is calling its customers to check if they will be available for Saturday iPad delivery. The courier service does not normally deliver on Saturdays, and so may be making special arrangements to ensure a smooth rollout. Apple's reliance on UPS is unusual in this regard.
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A story of nothing
At lest this story did not venture to even ascribe this to anybody or any source. It holds no merit and no substance. There seems to the a breaking point to how many stories about nothing I can take. There are stories of polls that never give information about who or how many people were even polled. Now this story which rounds against any notion of how Apple operates. REALLY Apple is holding back customs so that by not filling the shelves on Saturday they can sell more at a later date???? Read this article again and see if there is any sense to it at all. To have a story just to have a story is wrong. Yes I have ordered an iPad, but there are so many stories now that have no backing or sense of credibility. Where did this conspirancy idea come from? Did you hear a friend of a friend say it. Did you just think it up? Why print another Apple is demon story? Really any ability to back this notion up?Yep Apple just holding items they could sell to burst first day sales numbers, maybe its so the iPad doesn't seem to be too popular there by selling fewer so Apple doesn't have to work as hard to manufacter them. COME ON!!