“‘We anticipate being able to have the iPad later this year,’ Gary Severson, senior vice president of entertainment for Wal-Mart’s U.S. stores, said in a telephone interview,” Burritt reports. “The Bentonville, Arkansas-based company isn’t prepared to provide specifics on the timing and pricing of the iPad, he said.”
Burritt reports, “Apple has sold more than 1 million iPads since they went on sale in the U.S. last month, making the debut more successful than the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. Apple sells the device, a tablet computer that lets users read digital books and access the Internet, online and in its stores. Best Buy Co. also sells it.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Bloodbath. Remember, getting iPods into Wal-Mart way back when was a big deal for Apple and really helped cement iPod’s dominance.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
Good Luck Google… U R going to need it. It’s All Over Now Baby Blue.
Can’t wait to read all the ant-walmart stuff soon to come.
iPads will be available from Apple Stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack, and now WalMart? Wow!
Even if you hate Radio Shack and Walmart, you’ve got to admit it will allow incredible availability. My stock loves this news!
Apple is one of the few companies Walmart would not be able to push around. Is that “anti-walmart?”
I think it will work out well for both companies. However, Walmart isn’t a company anyone pushes around either. If Apple does push Walmart around, it’ll be because they let Apple. Neither company needs the other to stay successful.
Anti-walmarters are like wild beasts crashing around aimlessly. And by beast I mean ferocious squirrels.
Walmart is a vermicious knid! (Just for Quad core.)
OMFG Will WalMart get the iPad before China and Korea?
Spending $500 at WalMart for an iPad when you can feed a family of 4 by shopping at WalMart for 5 months?
Babies are starving FGS!
Nothing at Walmart is revolutionary – nothing. Once it’s on their shelf, it’s ordinary. My guess they will be selling only the previous generation iPad after the refresh is released. The refresh will be revolutionary the old one will just be old.
Man I wish we could get a WalMart in NYC but the pos unions and the politicians they own won’t allow it. They want to protect the common man by not allowing him to buy cheap and save money.
@jaundiced
Let’s just say that Apple and WalMart are so big that nobody pushes around either of them.
That WalMart can’t push around is the shocker to Bentonville.
Correct that last line:
That WalMart has finally encountered someone (Apple) they can’t push around is the shocker to Bentonville.
“Once it’s on their shelf, it’s ordinary”
Maybe be THE stupidest comment i’ve read all week–and that’s saying something..
@qka:
So true!
Wal-Mart will have the same range of iPads as they have iPhones – all of them, current models, no meaningful discount. In time for back to school. The iPad will be ubiquitous.
Unfortunately in training, the Wal-Mart greeters have already dropped and broken three hundred iPads.