Apple says iPad available in nine more countries on May 28 available

May 8th, 2010 - 2:22 am ICT by BNO News  

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA — Apple on Friday announced that iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on Friday, May 28.

Customers can pre-order all iPad models from Apple’s online store in all nine countries beginning on Monday, May 10.

iPad includes 12 new apps designed especially for iPad and will run almost all of the more than 200,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for iPhone or iPod touch.

According to Apple, developers have created more than 5,000 new apps designed for iPad.

In the US, Apple has already sold over one million iPads and customers have downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store, as well as over 1.5 million ebooks from the new iBookstore.

Apple plans to release iPad in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore in July, the company added.

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