THE UK APPLE IPAD WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON UK DIRECT

For those of us who find the geek chic blue tshirted almost cult ethic of the Maestro Steves stores too much 

we will soon be able to order the UK Apple iPad from Amazon UK 

follow the click below if Sandelwood floors and geek cults are not your thang..

Apple iPad Tablet (WiFi, 64 GB)

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Apple iPad Wi Fi 3G versions out there now on Apple And Amazon Stores

THE APPLE IPAD WIFI 3G VERSIONS ARE OUT TODAY IF YOU ARE READING THIS  OUTSIDE YOUR LOCAL APPLE PLACE OF WORSHIP then wave your wifi ipads in the air like you just don't care !

Praise Steve!... as long as you are in the USA of course! 

If only the great one could spread some of his gifts to the international faithful,who are left holding their tiny ipods, still May 10 th is not that long to go , perhaps in his wisdom he is waiting to see if the Euro collapses by then and clean up big time!

If you do not worship His Shadow and chose ye not to stand in line with the faithful or are a secret Apple admirer too shy too shy to  share your devotion  :

You can also find the   Apple iPad Tablet (64GB, Wifi) on Amazon.com

Apple iPad Tablet (32GB, Wi-Fi)

Apple iPad MB292LL/A Tablet (16GB, Wifi)

meanwhile  in the land of austerity the thing costs more than any where else :!

PREORDER THE UK APPLE iPAD now 

new sealed and including insured delivery

APPLE IPAD 64GB Wi-Fi Tablet

UK INSURED DELIVERY £999.99  USA AND EUROPE INSURED DELIVERY £999.99  WORLD WIDE INSURED DELIVERY £1,109.99

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UK APPLE IPADS FROM AMAZON UK

Apple iPad Tablet (WiFi, 64 GB)

USA Apple iPads are on  Amazon.com 

including [for now!]

Apple iPad 64GB

USA Apple IPads are also on Amazon UK

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APPLE iPad 64 GB Wifi + 3G UK VERSION BUY NOW !

APPLE iPad 64 GB Wifi + 3G UK VERSION BUY NOW

With over a million sold to our US cousins ,including allegedly about 999,999.5 finding there way out of the US ,proving the truly mobile nature of the iPad! ,the Apple iPad is the most sought after object in the world , which is why 90 % of owners [allegedly] keep them locked up at home. The recession busting USA release, satiated both Apple faithful fans and heretics [entrepreneurs ] many of whose college fees and mortgages were handsomely paid off [yeah take that Mado**!]  At this point the most sought after of most sought afters is now  the APPLE iPad 64 GB Wifi + 3G UK version and you can order it right here NEW AND SEALED  : posted from THE UK  from  28/05/10 with insured delivery 

APPLE IPAD 64GB Wi-Fi +3G UK Tablet

UK INSURED DELIVERY £999.99 USA AND EUROPE INSURED DELIVERY £1,109.99 WORLD WIDE INSURED DELIVERY £1,200.00

APPLE IPAD 64GB Wi-Fi +3G UK Tablet

UK INSURED DELIVERY £999.99 USA AND EUROPE INSURED DELIVERY £1,109.99 WORLD WIDE INSURED DELIVERY £1,200.00

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Apple iPad UK version right here right now !

The UK iPad has landed this is what it looks like sealed and new 

side on winking  at you :

and for the 2001 fans the obelisk view: get ready to throw those bones in the air !:

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Steve Jobs does for tech how Willy Wonka did for chocolate

The Wizard of Cupertino has spoken and introduced us to yet more technical marvels .  What I find most interesting about about Steve Jobs special events , is that I get so excited about getting excited about technology.I am not a traditional Apple devotee . I do not attend the daily techno mass at the local Apple Temple  , and yet  this year I contributed to the 50%  of Apple sales that are now due to Apple first timers ! This was almost entirely due to Steve Jobs presenting his products in his own personal style . So  here I am avidly watching the September live Stream from the Apple store website. 


And it comes to me , is  Roald Dahl`s Willy Wonka and his Chocolate factory the secret to Steve Jobs success?  It helps to familiarise yourself with   Charlie and the Chocolate Factorybefore you continue reading this entry.Face time  your parents now if they did not buy or read it for you when you were 5 and 3/4......


I am watching the Apple keynote stream and its like I am the eponymous young Master Charlie Bucket with his  golden ticket to Wonkas magical tech factory , the ticket being the virtual quicktime stream in my magical iPad Safari browser.


That new iPod Nano could easily be a never ending gobstopper , the new Ipod Touch morphs in front of my eyes into a  Fudgemallow Scrumptious Delight . Shouldn't these things be wrapped in easy to rip silver/gold foil just like your favourite candy bar ? Are there golden tickets to visit Cupertino? The entire product presentation is  better and more delicious looking than any of its rivals. 


The tour/event of Mr Wonka/ Steve Jobs of  The Apple keynote/ Chocolate factory is being attended by hordes of Violet Beuregardes, Mike TVs and Augustus Gloops , I can see them in the audience , and  I start worrying many would not survive dejuicing or fit through that chocolate suction pipe I tell you! There may even be stooges planted by rivals to steal Mr Jobs secrets .....


Not to worry for Apple`s  success , like Willy Wonka`s is made possible by hordes of underpaid overworked and fiercely protective foreign workers . Some of the chief Apple equivalent of Wonkas Oompa Loompas even hail from England!I know they talk to me through my magical iPad. And then in the Internet trenches is a volunteer army of Oompa/Apple Loompa blogs swearing Apple fealty ready to attack in text the smallest rival or challenge  to the The Wizard of Cupertino. 


It has to be noted that Mr Wonka`s underpaid workers,who I believe were paid in cocoa ,sang more whilst they worked , I have yet to hear a decent Apple worker song .And entirely fictitious studies have shown the suicide rate amongst Wonkas Oompa Loompa work force is actually no higher than normal rates for fictional children's characters in the employ of egocentric fictional Industrialists.


Like Mr Wonka , Mr Jobs is a master showman ,salesman , and hopefully benevolent force , and like Charlie Bucket if you are good and  finish ALL your  cabbage soup  , who knows you may get one of those scrumptious fudgemallow iPod Touch delights , although I doubt there are any golden tickets in the boxes. 


But back to the event , I want more Apple products and I don`t know why ,  seriously Mr Jobs is the brightest star in Apples sky , he can come across as the average joe to the average joe, the most psyched tech loving geek to psych tech loving geeks , potentially the most profitable CEO for developers to latch onto   , or someone who can  get just as  medieval with his email correspondence when defending Apple as the average Apple fanatic would on the well known US technoblog circuit. Mr Jobs believes in his company , and he leaves you with a little of this belief every time he speaks. 


You know if you had 5 footlong subs to distribute to 5000 tech event attendees , Steve Jobs would get it done , and wearing sandals too......


Because Steve Jobs is the App for that and also  the best App/OS/hardware combination that Apple have ever produced. Hook up with him here 

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FULL THROTTLE AND THE DIG RARE BIG BOX APPLE MAC VERSIONS

Full Throttle the rare Mac version , complete with mini play guide and manual + The Dig rare big box Mac version


Two of the finest point and click adventures , in rare Apple flavours no less..

Collectively these games involve the talents of , in no particular order , but hey  what the heck Tim Schafer  ROOOOLZ! so he gets named first amongst dignitaries, who also include Sir Steven Spielberg , Mr George Lucas and his Industrial Light and Magic, the honoured thesps Mr Mark Hamill and Mr Robert Patrick  and not forgetting the acquired taste/genius of Wagner who I am sure would be honoured to know that one day his life`s work would be accompanying the finest of  point and click classics :

Don`t believe that all these genii are involved ?  Please to read the back of the boxes :  

and the Dig:

both cdrom macintosh version all cds are in perfect condition 


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The age of Steam leaves brick and mortar video game retailers fuming ....

This just in ....traditional retail monster faces onslaught from digital distributors....

There's a Steam cloud hanging over yon bricks and mortar retailer ... yes another one .Fuming with sales envy they have turned their child tantrum like ire to Steam. Apparently considering to threaten to possibly refuse to stock games that require Steam , wow , it makes you wonder if the CEOs of these companies belong to the same gentleman's clubs as our hallowed Bankers?  


Many many ...many (happy) times I have cheered on Steam for bringing back the PC games market abandoned by the traditional retailers.The great lie is that it ever went away , there have always been more pc gamers than on any other platform , but retail has not been able to dictate to them the way they love to do to casual and new core console gamers . 


The retail sales fall has been caused,not by Steam , but over 15 years by the traditional retailers own hilariously inept business model focussing store space on console games and hardware , with their ultimately limited number of releases , tiny profit margins , and fickle casual customer base , oh and this little bitty Western economy based double dip recession thingy... 


Every pc gamer knows they are the real core gamer , but the retailer on your street doesn't see you as that , your machine[s] may cost more than their yearly salary , you play on 3 to 6  1600 1200 screens linked to 4 of whatever Nvidia and Ati have going at the moment  on 1 pc , you have more spending power yearly re games than a thousand casuals , and will continue to buy games through the most dire of economic times, intelligently I might add ,waiting for the Steam Sales weekly , and tri annual , but .. and its a big but the oik in the retail store has been told to ignore you by head office....


I have been watching and experiencing this for over a decade . At some point in this decade of retail insanity , Valve arrived with Steam , it annoyed at first , with Half Life 2 obligatory online  activation, then broadband speeds , and hard disk space sky rocketed, Steam  started ticking along nicely ,  now the best deal in games purchases this year will be on Steam , no PC games collector or fan can live without its convenience . 


We can and do chose to live without the inconvenience of having to buy a game from a high street store , if i want to play Call Of Whatever at launch I do not  have to queue at any midnight freezing death trap launch ...And there certainly  are nicer things to be doing at midnight .....


Today after making you freeze your ????? off for Halo,Kinect, COD 7  the  retailers are screaming foul , they are scared Steam might be another iTunes ,well news flash , Steam is beyond iTunes .Even more than that it is respected by the owners of iTunes:Apple and the Dark Lord or for some Eru Illuvatar himself have taken notice of Steam and allowed it to chug away on Macs!  Steam is beyond what iTunes is , way beyond in technical terms, and function.  Steam will also hit the PS3 with Portal 2 , later next year, and that is a significant milestone in console games  retail models. There is also no reason why Steam will not one day be on your phone , tablet , with other media including films and music . Anything is possible , how many Steam users would prefer their media to come from a Valve rather than Apple server? Music and videos you never lose , just like your games , how convenient would it be to have your Steam Music collection playing whilst your Steam game is playing ,oh and on any device ? Ahhh things to come....


The traditional retailers say Valve has  a monopoly in the making yet It is Steam that broke the  traditional bricks and mortar retailing monopoly , Steam that keeps many indie games developers running , people whose games traditional retailers have refused shelf space to for over a decade. The kind of developer that is also  thriving on iOS ! 


But lets not forget what truly makes Steam great , its the community , 30 million games fans , and the respect they get from Valve . Tell me you are not waiting for 2 upcoming Steam Holiday sales.


Traditional retailers ignore the fact, that it is the customer who chooses to  pays their wages , and after a decade of being ignored , mistreated and sent to the back of the game food chain , behind casual and console  gamers , the customer with the most spending power and ability to resurrect your failing business and retail sales has chosen NOT to pay your wages 


So it isn't Steam or any other digital distribution service  that is wrecking your business ,it is your customers , like me who chose to do so , 30 million of them at last count , Power to the Gamers ....indeed!


To truly make money over the long term you have to understand your customer base , now there is a point in a games fans life where they need to own everything going , it is simply impossible ,cost wise,time wise , space wise , but Steam gives us a nice little ogive of hope to ride , for fans , collectors and real core it gives you the feeling that you are getting what you want ,when you want it, and what you need , you will never own everything of course , or have enough lifetime[s] to play , but Steam and other digital distribution services like iTunes fit that core gamer groove perfectly .They have learnt it is the customer that pays their wages , traditional retail with its dictatorial release and sales models lost the battle over a decade ago.

Just 3 of this weekends many download nails in the coffins of traditional games retailers .. 

This weekend alone you can get F1 2010 33% off on Steam , Direct2Drive have a decent 25% off sale , so you could pick up the likes of COD7 for £29.95 [registers on Steam] , and on iTunes theres GTA China Town Wars for £3.99 , and not long to go for the Black Friday/ Thanksgiving /Christmas sales !


So throw your child like tantrums Mr/Mrs  traditional games retailer , this is the Age of Steam ..and the pc games retail train left the station without you years ago....you did after all choose not to get on !




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