Apple: New iPad 3G orders to ship ‘by May 7th,’ earlier pre-orders will still ship ‘in late April’

Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune, “When a customer asked last week ‘will the iPad 3G models still ship on time as planned (end of April) in the US, if I order one today? Or will the 3G US orders be postponed as well?’ Jobs’ one-word answer, e-mailed from his iPhone, was a terse ‘Yes.’”

“Early this morning, we found out which of his two possible meanings was operative,” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “According to the Apple Store, if you order an iPad 3G today, it will ship ‘By May 7th.’”

Elmer-DeWitt reports, “Apple attributes all this to ‘surprisingly strong’ demand for the new device.”

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Source: MacDailyNews