Remains of the Day: In a flash

18.04.2011

Despite adding more places where you can buy an iPad, it appears that Apple is still having a tough time meeting demand for the tablet. writer Nick Bilton writes that folks are still camping out at the Soho Apple Store in New York City in order to snap up an iPad 2 when new shipments come in. And then they turn around and sell them at an outrageous profit in China. Really, it's really only a matter of time before there are more iPad 2s in China than in the U.S.

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Upstart payment processor Square has scored quite the coup: Apple will reportedly begin carrying the company's iPhone- and iPad-compatible credit-card reader in both its online and brick-and-mortar stores. The reader, which is , will supposedly cost about $10 at the Apple Store, but will also come with $10 worth of Square credit. We expect this to be a huge win for Square, right up until Apple unveils its own personal payment system, Rectangle.

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Not Steve Jobs, mind you, but jobs. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) said in a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives that the iPad "is now probably responsible for eliminating thousands of American jobs," since it's made in China. You know, maybe he's right. Let's stop using all that high tech manufactured in China! That'll show 'em! By which I mean "show 'em how much further our children's math and science test scores can fall."