{"id":66424,"date":"2012-12-07T13:08:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T11:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=66424"},"modified":"2012-12-08T22:54:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T20:54:57","slug":"ipad-4-prices-in-south-africa-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/66424-ipad-4-prices-in-south-africa-compared.html","title":{"rendered":"iPad 4 prices in South Africa compared"},"content":{"rendered":"

While a fourth generation iPad (iPad 4) will cost you more than its predecessor (iPad 3), South African prices for the popular device remain competitive when compared to those in Europe.<\/p>\n

Prices advertised in the United States are lower, but they don\u2019t include any form of sales tax. Sales taxes vary by state and county and range from 0% to 11% or more. VAT in South Africa is 14%.<\/p>\n

Official distributors of Apple products in South Africa, Core Group, announced the prices for the iPad 4 on Friday (7 December 2012).<\/p>\n

Apple\u2019s latest tablet PC will\u00a0also go on sale this\u00a0weekend (8\u20139 December 2012), Core said.<\/p>\n

The table below shows the launch prices of the iPad 4, iPad 3 and iPad 2 in South Africa along with the international pricing of the iPad 4 converted using the listed exchange rates:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
iPad model<\/td>\niPad 4<\/td>\niPad 3 launch<\/td>\niPad 2 launch<\/td>\niPad 4 US<\/td>\niPad 4 UK<\/td>\niPad 4 EU (DE\/NL)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
16GB Wi-Fi<\/td>\nR5,199<\/td>\nR4,999<\/td>\nR4,399<\/td>\nR4,346 ($499)<\/td>\nR5,574 (\u00a3399)<\/td>\nR5,619 (\u20ac499)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32GB Wi-Fi<\/td>\nR6,399<\/td>\nR5,999<\/td>\nR5,399<\/td>\nR5,217 ($599)<\/td>\nR6,692 (\u00a3479)<\/td>\nR6,745 (\u20ac599)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
64GB Wi-Fi<\/td>\nR7,399<\/td>\nR6,999<\/td>\nR6,399<\/td>\nR6,088 ($699)<\/td>\nR7,809 (\u00a3559)<\/td>\nR7,871 (\u20ac699)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16GB Wi-Fi + Cellular<\/td>\nR6,499<\/td>\nR6,299<\/td>\nR5,599<\/td>\nR5,479 ($629)<\/td>\nR6,971 (\u00a3499)<\/td>\nR7,083 (\u20ac629)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32GB Wi-Fi + Cellular<\/td>\nR7,499<\/td>\nR7,299<\/td>\nR6,599<\/td>\nR6,350 ($729)<\/td>\nR8,088 (\u00a3579)<\/td>\nR8,209 (\u20ac729)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
64GB Wi-Fi + Cellular<\/td>\nR8,599<\/td>\nR8,299<\/td>\nR7,599<\/td>\nR7,221 ($829)<\/td>\nR9,206 (\u00a3659)<\/td>\nR9,335 (\u20ac829)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Exchange rate<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nR8.71\/$<\/td>\nR13.97\/\u00a3<\/td>\nR11.26\/\u20ac<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
US prices are quoted excluding sales tax while the prices from the UK and EU prices already include VAT.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

It\u2019s interesting to view the fluctuations in prices in the context of the performance of the Rand against the US Dollar.<\/p>\n

The graph below shows the USD\/ZAR exchange rate with the local launch dates of the Apple iPad 2, 3, and 4 overlaid:<\/p>\n

\"ZAR\/USD<\/a>

ZAR\/USD exchange 2011-2012 rate graph with iPad dates superimposed<\/p><\/div>\n

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How does the South African pricing of the new iPad compare with the previous model and to overseas prices?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":66428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[605,1579,35,229,2438,16380],"class_list":["post-66424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-core-group","tag-headline","tag-ipad-2","tag-ipad-3","tag-ipad-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66470,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66424\/revisions\/66470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}