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iPad Pre-orders Begin Friday at 8:30 AM [iPad Confirmed for Pre-ordering on Apple Store Early in the Morning]

13 Mar 2010

One of the advantages of staying up late in Europe is that you get the scoop when it comes to lazy announcements coming from the US. A good example, we just caught wind that the iPad pre-orders will start as expected on the Apple Store this Friday, at around 8:30 in the morning for those on the East Coast.

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While we knew March 12 is the set date for the first pre-orders on the iPad, we just got confirmation when the pre-oder page will be up and running. That means you won’t have to stay up all night pressing the F5 button as a company spokesman has just told TUAW that “customers can pre-order online at apple.com at 5:30am Pacific time on Friday, March 12.” And yes if you were wondering, that’s the Wi-Fi version, only.

Now go set your clocks folks and let the battle begin.

Meanwhile consider that you’ll be getting your Wi-Fi enabled iPad in another three weeks or so, while the 3G versions and international orders won’t be at your doorstep any sooner than late April.

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iPad Pre-Orders Begin at 5:30 A.M. PT on March 12

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13 Mar 2010

Apple fanatics will be able to place their iPad orders at 5:30 a.m. PST (8:30 EST) tomorrow, Friday, March 12. The pre-orders will be available through Apple.com, and are expected to ship in the United States next month — April 3 to be precise.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog learned about the pre-order time after it asked Apple for the information in an e-mail.

Let’s assume you’re the sort of person who wants an iPad; if so, you can still wait for the launch date and pick up an iPad at your local Apple store (or at Best Buy a little bit after launch). However, there’s a possibility that it will sell out and you’ll be left hanging. If this scenario worries you, you’ll want to place your order online to be sure you get one before your friends and colleagues. You know, if you’re into that kind of one-upmanship.

But if you’re the sort of person who thinks the device is more hype than substance, you can go ahead and sleep in tomorrow.

Are you going to be up bright and early for the iPad pre-order? Let us know in the comments.

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The iPad Poses a Threat to Kindle’s Market Share [STATS]

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8 Mar 2010

Independent research boutique ChangeWave surveyed 3,171 consumers and found that consumer pre-launch interest in the iPad is high.

Data demonstrates that consumers are more interested in purchasing an iPad than they were the iPhone prior to launch. Also, 27% of existing e-reader owners indicated they would have purchased the iPad over the model they own now.

The study — which was conducted after the iPad announcement — also shows that 40% of respondents in the market to purchase an e-reader in the next 90 days say they will buy an iPad.

That number is quite remarkable on its own, but when compared against the respondents who indicated preferences for the Kindle (28%), Nook (6%), and Sony Reader (1%) the bigger picture starts to become clear. If these numbers are reflective of the larger population, Apple is most certainly a threat to Amazon and the e-book/e-reader industry as a whole.

Some other interesting highlights from the ChangeWave study include:

- Prospective iPad buyers are likely to wait a few months before they make their purchase. 20% will buy two to three months after release, 23% four to six months after release, and 19% seven to 12 months after release.

- 68% of prospective iPad owners are most interested in using the iPad to surf the internet.

- 25% of consumers buying iPads may cut back on previous plans to purchase other Apple products. 10% are putting their iPhone purchase plans on hold, while 9% are saying they may not buy the laptop or iPod they had previously planned to.

Given that the iPad launch date is just a few weeks away, we should soon be able to tell how accurate some of these findings are and whether or not the iPad will put a significant dent into Amazon Kindle sales.