iPad Now Available in 10 Countries Worldwide

The iPad is available in nine countries outside the US today. After postponed shipping due to short supplies and high US demand, pre-orders have arrived and Apple stores opened early to long lines of iPad buyers. Tokyo's Ginza Apple store had a line of 1,200 people waiting to get their hands on Apple's latest creation.

Apple sold over one million iPads in the first month of the US-only launch, and analysts expect that the company could sell up to eight million globally by the end of 2010. Almost 60 percent of Apple's revenues already come from sales outside the US.

Many users in the UK reported that pre-ordered iPads were delivered a day earlier than scheduled, while people camped overnight in London, Tokyo and Sydney. An estimated 30,000 iPads were sold in the first day of the Australian launch alone.

Lines were shorter in Toronto, where many Canadians who were intent on purchasing an iPad crossed the border after the US launch. Apple added iPad apps to the Canadian App Store earlier this month, even though the official launch date was not until today. Buyers from Ireland also crossed the border to get their hands on an iPad in Belfast over a month before the official launch there.

iPads are now officially sold in the following 10 countries:

Australia
Canada
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Spain
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States

A second round of nine countries is expected to get the iPad in July:

Austria
Belgium
Hong Kong
Ireland
Luxembourg
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Singapore

iPad mania continues to sweep the globe as Apple prepares to announce the newest version of its iPhone in just over a week. Apple's new mobile operating system, iPhone 4.0, will be released on the iPad this fall.