Good news for international iPad owners. Apple has finally switched on the iPad App Store in your country. Or rather, it is in the process of switching it on in those countries that will be lucky enough to get the iPad itself at the end of this month.
Up until today, getting iPad apps outside the US had to be done via iTunes (I have a bunch of apps queued-up on my Mac ready for my iPad delivery, due any minute now) and then transferred across via sync. Now reports are coming in that the in-iPad store is live for direct browsing and download. This has the advantage of allowing you to narrow-in on iPad-only and universal apps, as the on-device store excludes anything else.
It does seem that the iBooks application is still unavailable internationally, if only so you can read your own, home-converted EPUB files. As it is a free app, though, you can just make a US iTunes account and download anyway.
We’re pretty sure some international Gadget Lab readers already have iPads. How did you get them? Is the new App Store showing up in your country already? Answers, as always, in the comments.
iPad App Store Launches for International Tableteers [Slashgear]
Photo: Mat Packer/Flickr
See Also:
- IPad Ships Internationally May 28th
- Apple Delays International iPad Launch Until 'End of May'
- International iPad Orders Pushed Back. Again
- International iPad Prices and Tariffs Revealed
- Orange, Vodafone, O2 Announce iPad Plans
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