Availability of 3rd Generation iPad Improves on Online Apple Store

hope this will mess up eBay $camers plans for profit$

Or you could just walk into most retailers (that carry iPads) and get one today...

This may be the "new normal" in the Tim Cook era. His background is in supply chain management.

Something to point out is that Steve Jobs, for all his greatness, liked to tinker with products until the very end. While it made for great products, he took it to an extreme. That Apple was able to get ANY supply so quickly after some of Jobs' last-minute changes (supposedly he changed the original iPhone less than a month before the launch) is a testament to Tim Cook.

Now that he's in charge, he's less likely to make last-minute changes to the designs that Jony Ivy and the engineering team put out. While it could mean that Apple is a bit more tolerant of "compromises" (such as going with the older LTE chip, the 45nm Samsung process for the A5X, and the resultant larger battery), it means that Apple has more time to ramp up in anticipation of a product launch.

That may be why Jobs had the foresight to place Ive's design team in a unique position within the org chart (I believe he has a dotted line to the Board and doesn't report directly to Tim Cook). By doing so, that keeps design "compromises" somewhat in check.

So funny how online orders are slower than just going to a local best buy or apple re-seller. tons in stock there lol

OMG OMG THERES NO DEMAND FOR iPADS ANYMORE!!! :rolleyes:

You, of course, mean "curryer."
:D

Indeed. My spelling sucks when im not using an iOS device :)

:rolleyes: Don't you both mean "courier"? "Curryer" isn't a word. "Currier" is, at least a word. Just not the word you intended.

Apple may reconsider this practice. They may actually want the ipads and their products to trickle to stores like they did with the iPad2 so as to create the perception of heaving demand and more brand recognitiion through cravings :D

The downside of all this is that it may alienate a bunch of people?

I completely disagree with this. Looks good for Apple that a new product sales out quickly with high demand but it causes scalpers to buy up available inventory just so that they can make quick money. I don’t feel sorry for the assholes that are stuck with 10 units and now have to return them with their tail between their legs. I completely approve of them flooding the market with tons of product so that normal people do not have to line up all night. I want to be able to walk into my local Verizon store 12 hours after launch to buy an iphone 5 without lining up for 10 freaking hours or seeing the pigs hike the price up on craigslist.
Good job Apple for meeting demand and for embarrassing those ebay/craigslist bastards. Today I seen an opened ipad 3 go for $500 on craigslist. The dummy scalpers still have them $50 to $100 over retail.

online orders you will get some discount through the credit card companies (at least in the USA) where as if you go and pickup in the store not so much.

also, not everyone is living close to apple store or best buy.

and some guys just prefer to order through online :)

there could be more reasons for online orders are taking to time deliver.

They are sending out all the returned "yellow" iPads to people with out OCD's.

There's been a sharp rise in availability thanks to a certain display manufacture.