“Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulah conducts his business via an iPad 3G,” Mark Gurman reports for 9 to 5 Mac.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s good to be the king.
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Gurman wonders, “Does the magic even exist there yet?”
Full article, with photos of the iPad-rockin’ King, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Not officially, but Apple’s magic always seems to find a way! Apple’s magical iPad became officially available in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore on July 23rd after becoming available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on May 28th. iPad Wi-Fi + 3G models debuted in US on April 30. iPad Wi-Fi-only models launched in US on April 3. iPad will roll out to many more countries later this year and Apple will announce availability and local pricing for these additional countries at a later date.
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OMG. I really hate all these stupid American hollidays…
Karlv
It’s the day we celebrate working by staying home….
Actually, TT, it’s the day where corporations and the government trick the little people into thinking they actually give a damn by letting them stay home.
It’ll be back to greasing the wheels tomorrow…
Wow. Apple products are also used by dictatorial nepotistic autocrats. Who’d have thunk it?
Who gives a rip what the theocratic dictator does…
Reeeee,
Why so negative?
The majority of the world population would do anything to have a job at one these horrible corporations and live in luxury like you do.
What’s horrible is how rotten spoiled people are and how little they appreciate what they have.
“It’ll be back to greasing the wheels tomorrow…”
Yes, to pay for those that stay home all the time….which is how “the government tricks the little people into thinking they actually give a damn by letting them stay home”…to get votes.
The king has found the iPad extremely useful for keeping track of the millions upon millions his piece of shit regime secretly funnels into terrorist groups.
“OMG. I really hate all these stupid American holidays…”
If we don’t get rid of these dems and unions, the USA will soon have as much time off as they do in France.
Holidays/holydays- we had better start praying to take back America.
Who is next on the list? Mebvedev? He is already using MBP…
When did MDN become a political blog?
@Tea party,
There has always been some political sniping on MDN; I always presumed it was the same on other blogs. But from my perspective, it went WAY over the top two years ago when it became obvious that the neocons were going to lose the Executive branch, and not have a majority in Congress to compensate.
MDN became a political blog when the Left became Communistic and the Right became Fascistic.
When you couldn’t tell the difference between Left and Right because they both occupied the middle of the road, there wasn’t a problem.
Some of us celebrate by working anyway.
King? It good to be a permanent employee.
King Abdulah:” I use my iPad to Keep track of my harem. With over 200 wives, this is a dream”.
The new Mecca and Medina app is coming out in November.
Al
You don’t know history.
And if you do, you don’t understand it.
what years did they ‘occupy the middle road’?
and where those the years of your youth?
Ron and Towertone. You are too stupid to read an Apple oriented blog. Windows is more your style. Buh-bye.
Ron:
The French may may enjoy a lot of time off, but are impressively hard workers on the job. (I’m there right now).
Once again, Apple is making the right move by aggressively going global. The US government has been hollowing out American middle class affluence for most of the last three decades.
Darwin
See ya’ later.
Hope you evolve into an adult one day…
@ Al
That happened long before computers were invented.
@ ron
Please pray all you want! I love the results you get with that. I’ll be voting.
@ theloniousMac
That’s only when he’s not making out with our former president. And you know what? I’d kiss W too if he’d done such a great job keeping the price of my oil so high. A real Amercian hero, that one.
So the 3G has an Arabic keyboard now, or does the King have a special dispensation?
Hey, C1
It may be too late for you to kiss Nixon, but you can still kiss Carter who, apparently, is also a real American Hero.
Hey, maybe y’all can have a Hero sandwich…” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />
When you watch the news today, be sure to thank King Abdulah’s nephew for the fair & balanced reporting.