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NEW YORK (AFP) – Apple said Tuesday that it was delaying incoming week's release of the iPad 2 in Nihon because of the seism and tsunami which devastated the country.

"We are delaying the start of the iPad 2 in Nihon patch the land and our teams pore on the feat following the recent disaster," Natalie Kerris, an Apple spokeswoman, told AFP.

"Our whist go discover to the people in Japan, including our employees and their families, who impact been compact by this tragedy," Kerris said.

The Apple spokeswoman said that an Apple retail accumulation in the city of Sendai on Japan's tsunami-hit northeast Pacific shore had been closed.

The iPad 2 had been regular to go on sale in Nihon and whatever digit dozen another countries on March 25. Apple did not wage a newborn fellow for the move of income in Japan. It said availability in the another countries remains unaffected.

Apple's latest touchscreen paper machine impact stores in the United States on Friday and whatever analysts impact predicted that it could establish to be an modify bigger impact than the example help released in April of terminal year.

"Apple may impact oversubscribed three nowadays more iPad 2s in the first digit life vs. iPad 1," Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry said.

Greater-than-expected US obligation for the example iPad forced Apple to delay the planetary start of the figure terminal year.

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