The iPad Is Coming to China This Week, “Many More” Countries Later This Year

China has been host to an innovative submarket of iPad knockoffs for some time now, but they’re finally getting the real thing: Apple has just announced that starting September 17, the Wi-Fi iPad will be available to consumers in China. They’ve also said that “[the] iPad will roll out to many more countries later this year and Apple will announce availability and local pricing for these additional countries at a later date.” (Though they’ve used this line before.)

The Chinese iPad will be pricier than its American counterpart: The 16GB iPad will sell for 3988 Chinese yuan, the 32GB for CNY4788, and the 64GB for CNY5588. ($590, $708, and $826, respectively.) No plans to release 3G iPads to China were announced.

(via @Reuters)