I’m amazed at how well Apple is managing to meet demand for the new iPad so far: 16 hours after the pre-order page went live, you can still order an iPad for March 16th delivery. That’s a herculean feat, given how many people want one, but Tim Cook’s been complaining for the last year that they would “sell more iPads if they could build more”… obviously he’s since gotten his house in order.
Never the less, it looks like Apple is finally starting to run out of pre-order units. Specifcally, as of writing, delivery estimates for the white iPad LTE on AT&T have slipped to March 19th, although you can still get any of the models on March 16th in black, and Verizon and WiFi-only models are still unaffected.
The moral? If you want a new iPad, it’s time to pre-order now. My guess is that before the day has passed, the delivery estimates are going to start slipping across the board.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
7 responses to “AT&T iPad LTE Delivery Dates Are Starting To Slip, Pre-Order Yours Now!”
It still shocks me how many people are with AT&T…
I defected from Verizon many years ago, AT&T has been pretty reliable for me. I don’t understand all the love Verizon gets.
If you are in the boonies, VZW will have bars. It’ll be slow, but it will be there. So folks in the boonies (or the Northeast) are loyal.
I’m not in the boonies nor the Northeast, so I’ll take AT&T’s speed every time.
I guess I am fortunate, because I live in the Baltimore/Washington Metro area. I haven’t experienced a lot of the issues to those who dislike AT&T.
Dude, it shocks me that I’M still with AT&Crap LOL…..
Not to be funny but I thought Apple was now sleeping with Sprint too?!?
Am I right in assuming the Verizon model might be just a bit superior to the AT&T model? When you look at both the size of Verizon’s LTE network (compared to AT&T) as well as the fact that it can also connect to GSM networks (at a lower 3G speed) I think that makes it a little better. That would make the Verizon model both CDMA and GSM compatible whereas the AT&T model is strictly GSM – not connecting to any CDMA networks, at all.