Apple iPad Coming to China, Rumored for Target Stores

By Chuong Nguyen on 09/13/2010, filed in Home > Apple

While Samsung is taking on the tablet battlefront in the U.S. with its rumored Galaxy Tab carrier deals with Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T, Apple may be targeting the Chinese market with its iPad tablet. Apple has confirmed that the iPad will be launching in China this Friday, though the company will only bring the WiFi-enabled version to China and not the WiFi + 3G edition of the iPad. Additionally, there is speculation that retailer Target may soon be offering the iPad for sale on its shelves beginning October 3rd, though this is unconfirmed. An iPad placement at Target would also serve to heat the e-reader war, of which the iPad is a huge player, and Target will act as a battleground between Amazon with its Kindle and Apple with its iPad.

Apple Inc: Apple Inc was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne as a computer company wich is often credited to have initiated personal computing. After a meteoric rise in the 80s, Apple had lost the personal computing battle against Microsoft and others in the 90s. But in the late 90s and early 2000s, the company came back to profitability by focusing on less products and started using industry-standard components. Apple's largest business is now in the smartphone space, with the iPhone representing more than half of the revenues and an even larger part of the profits. Read our Apple product reviews to see what the company has been up to: iPhone 5 Review, Macbook Pro with Retina display review

iPad: the iPad is Apple's tablet computer. While not "invented" by Apple (the newton was arguably a PDA), the iPad has re-ignited the tablet format as it appeared at the right time, with the right hardware and apps. the first iPad was launched on April 2010. It was followed by the iPad 2 in March 2011 and a new iPad (gen 3) in 2012.

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