According to foreign media reports, the German electronics retailer MediaMarkt earlier today in his Twitter account published an information in which it’s said Apple Tablet PC is named “iPad”, the product will be March 1 this year, an official in the European market for sale, a user with the German mobile operator T-Mobile signed a service contract after the price of 499 euros, do not sign a contract, compared with 899 euros (about 1266 U.S. dollars).
Industry said that if the information released by MediaMarkt true, then Apple MacMini light notebooks and other products in the European and U.S. markets at different prices, the iPad signing of a contract in the U.S. market price of roughly 500 to 600 U.S. dollars, non-contract price about 999 U.S. dollars.
Subject to some external concerns of, MediaMarkt then deleted the information released by iPad price, but other Twitter users have transmitted this information. German site NetbookNews.de informed because MediaMarkt as Germany’s largest retailer, Apple cannot exclude the company from access to official information authenticity. However, from years of acting style of Apple’s perspective, the company’s products before the official release, will definitely not be disclosed to the retail partners, time to market of new products and the prices of critical information. So the most reasonable explanation might be: MediaMarkt is from T-Mobile Service learned relevant information, after all, Apple’s mobile operators may be required to provide such information in advance.
Apple is scheduled to week 3 (U.S. local time) in San Francisco, a special media event held in the city, when the company will showcase its “latest innovative products.” Most industry insiders believe that Apple is likely the same day, showing off its 7-inch or 10-inch touch-screen tablet PC.