“South Korea’s top two telecoms operators SK Telecom and KT Corp said on Tuesday they had suspended online sale of Apple’s popular iPad 2 tablet due to tight supplies less than a week after they launched the sale,” Hyunjoo Jin and Miyoung Kim report for Reuters
“‘Our iPad 2 inventory has been depleted and we apologize for failing to provide enough supplies due to the product’s global supply shortages,’ SK Telecom said in a posting on its website,” Jin and Kim report.
Jin and Kim report, “Apple launched the new version of iPad in Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and eight additional countries last week after it went on sale in the U.S. market in March.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
A golden, but hopefully short lived opportunity for Samsung.
Quick! Ship all of the Galaxy Tabs and Playbooks to South Korea while you have a chance!